This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to Episode 105 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode, we're going to explore an incredible series of books and classroom materials

that amplifies the stories of people impacted by injustice all over the world.

The series is called Voice of Witness.

Teaching history in English has gotten complicated.

For many many years, educational publishers produced texts that only represented a narrow

viewpoint.

Whether fiction or nonfiction, the stories produced for and adopted by schools centered

an overwhelmingly white European experience.

But in recent decades, there's been a push to change that, to widen the lens, to hear

the voices of those who are so often under or misrepresented.

Many teachers have done an admirable job of addressing this need by expanding the menu

of texts they offer students.

These include primary source documents, literature for more diverse perspectives, and other

forms of media that tell stories with words, music, and images.

But these resources aren't always easy to find.

And so the more we can share the great things we find, the more complex and accurate our

curriculum will be.

Today, I want to share with you another incredible resource that can widen our lens even further,

a series produced by an organization called Voice of Witness.

The core product of Voice of Witness is a series of books, currently 17 titles strong, that

curate oral histories.

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