This collection of back-to-school activities for remote/hybrid settings are designed to create welcoming learning environments that prioritize care, relationships, and community.
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Establishing Opening and Closing Routines
Incorporate these community-building routines into your 2020 back-to-school lessons to set a welcoming tone, allow students to connect, and encourage goal setting.
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Preparing to Welcome Students Back to School
As a first step in your 2020 back-to-school planning, explore these reflection prompts and strategies that will help you center relationship and care in your teaching.
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Teaching Current Events: Bigotry and Hate
These resources offer sensitive entry points to confront troubling violence, bigotry and hate, including terrorism, genocide, and attacks on human rights.
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Teaching Current Events: Democracy and Civic Engagement
Democracies across the globe are increasingly fragile. Examine the health of democracy, voting and elections, and the pivotal role civic participation of young people plays.
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Teaching Resources for the 2020 US Election
Use these resources on voting, media literacy, polarization, and bias for remote and in-person learning to talk about the 2020 US presidential election with your high school and middle school students.
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What Makes Democracy Work?
Explore definitions of democracy, citizenship, and civic participation through new lessons, readings, audio interviews and more.
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Pre-war Jewish Life
A Day in Warsaw
This short documentary captures the spirit of Jewish life in Warsaw, Poland, before World War II.
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A Societal Obligation: Wes Moore on Community Responsibility
Author Wes Moore discusses society’s obligation to ask why avoidable tragedies happen.
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Almost Lost: The Heinemann Legacy (Before, During, and After the Holocaust)
This film explores how one family found restitution and healing after coming together for a ceremony to loan items looted by the Nazis from their descendant Marcus Heinemann back to Museum Lüneburg.
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An Introduction to the History of Eugenics and its Application in Canada
Dr. Molly Ladd-Taylor gives a brief history of the eugenics movement and how it was applied in Canada.
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Bullying & Ostracism
Angello Portillo at the 2013 Los Angeles Benefit Dinner
Angello Portillo tells about being a bully in middle school and reflects on Facing History
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