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Coming Soon: Civic Education Curriculum Collection
Get notified when our Civic Education Curriculum Collection is released. This modular and interdisciplinary set of units, inquiries, and lesson planning materials will help you prepare your students for informed and ethical participation in democracy.
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Inquiry Blueprint | We the People: Expanding the Teaching of the US Founding
This blueprint provides an at-a-glance view of the We the People inquiry.
All-Community Read Guide: Being Heumann and Rolling Warrior
This planning guide will support your school community as you read the memoir of Judy Heumann, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history.
Centering Student Voice and Choice: A Book Club Guide
Implement book clubs that build community and help students make meaningful connections to books they are excited to read.
Building a Classroom Community: Creating an Environment for Connection and Learning
This back-to-school resource contains activities and routines to help you create a sense of community, build relationships, and nurture students’ social-emotional needs.
Teaching Brown Girl Dreaming
Teach a unit on Jacqueline Woodson's coming-of-age memoir in verse that invites students to reflect on their own experiences and identities.
Discussing the Israel-Palestine Conflict in the Classroom
Find suggested resources and approaches for discussing the Israel-Palestine conflict with students.
“This I Believe . . .” Personal Narrative
Use or adapt this coming-of-age unit assessment, which invites students to join thousands of others from across the globe in sharing their beliefs and values in short written and recorded statements.
Teaching Children of Willesden Lane: Common Core Alignment
Access the "Teaching Children of Willesden Lane: Common Core Alignment" guide.
Speaker Visit Checklist
This checklist provides guidance for thoughtfully hosting a witness-to-history guest speaker in your classroom.
A Teacher’s Resource to The Children of Willesden Lane
Use this guide to teach the memoir The Children of Willesden Lane and its powerful story of a woman who escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport.
Twilight, Los Angeles Study Guide
Use this guide to the documentary film Twilight to help students investigate the trial of the Los Angeles police officers indicted for the beating of Rodney King.
