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Resources to Support Teachers During the Outbreak
Use these readings and resources to start important conversations with your students about the coronavirus outbreak, and to explore questions about community, responsibility, decision-making and upstanding that are relevant in this moment.
Teaching Idea
COVID-19: How Can We Make Choices That Promote The Common Good?
This Teaching Idea includes Google Slides with activities designed to help students reflect on the difficult ethical questions we’re all facing during the coronavirus crisis.
On-Demand Webinar
Coronavirus: Maintaining Healthy Schools and Preparing for Online Learning
Learn about the preparations schools should be doing and explore teaching strategies for online learning.
On-Demand Webinar
School Closures and Online Learning: Creating Community, Centering Students
Explore remote teaching strategies and approaches to creating community and sustaining student-centered learning in a digital environment.
Teaching Idea
Democracy & Civic Engagement
Coronavirus: Protect Yourself and Stand Against Racism
This Teaching Idea provides facts about the new coronavirus and allows students to explore instances of discrimination related to COVID-19.
Reading
Universe of Obligation
Reflect on how individuals, communities, and nations decide who has rights that are worthy of respect and protection with this introduction to the concept of the "universe of obligation" (Spanish available).
Reading
Democracy & Civic Engagement
Who We Are, Or Could Be, in Times of Crisis
Historian and activist Rebecca Solnit writes about people’s responses to disasters and the human capacity to do good.
Reading
Democracy & Civic Engagement
Walking with the Wind
Congressman and activist John Lewis describes his vision of how we can work together to strengthen our communities and make a better world.
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