: an extended meeting usually held on a college campus for lectures, debates, and discussions to raise awareness of or express a position on a social or political issue
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Portfolia engages its community LPs, including them in optional monthly pitch calls to question founders, hands-on diligence and voting, as well as teach-ins and events that unpack women’s health dynamics.
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Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
DarkSky International, a nonprofit that tries to protect the night sky from light pollution, will hold a public teach-in Saturday in Julian followed by an evening of stargazing.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Their Radical Hood Library, which opened in 2021 in Jefferson Park, LA, serves as an event hub for teach-ins, readings, and a prison book program.
—Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
Student groups such as the Palestine Solidarity Committee, which is on interim suspension at UT, have held teach-ins there, and other students and volunteers have led first aid trainings and documentary screenings.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Across marches, rallies, teach-ins, and community events, people will come together to defend what every family needs to live with dignity: healthcare, safety, food, education and care.
—Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
Stand Up for Science, a new nonprofit, is planning a series of demonstrations at state fairs and farmers markets, along with teach-ins at churches and open lab days this summer.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 12 June 2025
The senator from Wisconsin organized nationwide college teach-ins with the help of a young activist named Denis Hayes.
—Terry Baddoo, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
Then in 1969, after visiting the site of the then-largest oil spill in U.S. history off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, Nelson read an article on his flight back to Washington about how anti-war teach-ins at colleges and universities were changing the conversation about the Vietnam War.
—Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025
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Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
DarkSky International, a nonprofit that tries to protect the night sky from light pollution, will hold a public teach-in Saturday in Julian followed by an evening of stargazing.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Their Radical Hood Library, which opened in 2021 in Jefferson Park, LA, serves as an event hub for teach-ins, readings, and a prison book program.
—Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
Student groups such as the Palestine Solidarity Committee, which is on interim suspension at UT, have held teach-ins there, and other students and volunteers have led first aid trainings and documentary screenings.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Across marches, rallies, teach-ins, and community events, people will come together to defend what every family needs to live with dignity: healthcare, safety, food, education and care.
—Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
Stand Up for Science, a new nonprofit, is planning a series of demonstrations at state fairs and farmers markets, along with teach-ins at churches and open lab days this summer.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 12 June 2025
The senator from Wisconsin organized nationwide college teach-ins with the help of a young activist named Denis Hayes.
—Terry Baddoo, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
Then in 1969, after visiting the site of the then-largest oil spill in U.S. history off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, Nelson read an article on his flight back to Washington about how anti-war teach-ins at colleges and universities were changing the conversation about the Vietnam War.
—Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025
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“Teach-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teach-in. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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