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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Choosing to Rescue
Sociologist Nechama Tec explores the story of one woman, Stefa Dworek - a Polish Christian - and her motivation to shelter a Jewish woman during the Holocaust. If caught rescuing a Jew during this time, Stefa would have faced imprisonment or worse. Yet about 2 percent of the Polish Christian population chose to hide Jews in a nation known for its long history of antisemitism.
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Developing Student Voice, Character, and Civic Agency
This middle school curriculum leads students in an examination of identity, membership and belonging, and civic participation through an analysis of historical case studies and literature.
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From Reflection to Action: A Choosing to Participate Toolkit
Get our toolkit to learn how to strengthen your students' civic skills and knowledge. Our guide includes flexible activities and strategies ranging from one class period to a semester-long elective or independent civic action project.
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Introduce Schindler's List to a New Generation
Learn about the new guide to Teaching Schindler's List, consisting of eight lesson plans, video interviews with a Holocaust survivor, an interactive timeline, and additional teaching resources and professional development to provide tools and context for teaching about the Holocaust.
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Let The World Know!
Two Jews meet with a Polish courier during the Grossaktion Warsaw in summer 1942, imploring him to tell the world what was happening to Jews.
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