Even before the global pandemic and record-breaking protests against racial injustice, Generation Alpha (born 2010-2024) were on track to be the most civically engaged group of students ever. They will be the most educated, the most digitally savvy, and the most diverse of any generation in history. They are learning from their savvy Generation Z older siblings or their increasingly aware Millennial parents that the world is in substantial flux, affected by the realities of climate change, plastic pollution, rising income inequality, and shifting global demographics. Successful activism relies on the idealism of youth to call out when adults fail to live up to their own self-professed standards and the lofty goals they read about while in school. In this article, Adam Monier Edwards examines how teachers need to know which forms of citizen activism have advanced society and which have led to stagnation to inspire the next generation.