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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
ELA Unit Planning Guide
This guide provides the framework and classroom resources to help you design an English Language Arts unit for middle or high school students centered around a book of your choosing.
We May Not Have Another Chance
Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz processes an experience she had in a slave labor camp through a poem and writing.
What Do We Do with a Difference?
A poem by James Berry invites us to question the ways we as individuals and societies react to difference.
What Do We Do with a Difference? (en español)
A poem by James Berry invites us to question the ways we as individuals and societies react to difference. This resource is in Spanish.
Navigating Multiple Identities
Armenian American writer Diana Der Hovanessian reflects on how her family history influences her identity in her poem "Two Voices."
Navigating Multiple Identities (en español)
Armenian American writer Diana Der Hovanessian reflects on how her family history influences her identity in her poem "Two Voices." This resource is in Spanish.
Barometer
In this classroom video, middle school students learn how to participate in a Barometer activity during the first week of school.
Contracting
In this classroom video, a middle school teacher leads his class through the contracting process during the first week of school and students discuss expectations and norms of how class members will treat each other.
José's Story
In this personal narrative, a young person shares their experience coming out to family as a gay, Latino, Catholic man and their social justice work at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.
José's Story (en español)
In Spanish, in this personal narrative a young person shares their experience coming out to family as a gay, Latino, Catholic man and their social justice work at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.