Launch a remote book club that builds connectedness, fosters empathy, and provides opportunities for student-driven learning with the help of these resources.
Launch a remote book club that builds connectedness, fosters empathy, and provides opportunities for student-driven learning with the help of these resources.
These back-to-school activities are designed to create welcoming learning environments that prioritize care, relationships, and community.
This collection of teaching resources will help you lay a foundation of community and care as you return to the classroom after a year of unprecedented challenges and disruptions.
Implement book clubs that build community and help students make meaningful connections to books they are excited to read.
An online companion to the book The Children of Willesden Lane. This powerful true story of Lisa Jura, one of 10,000 young refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport as a child before World War II.
The readings in this collection explore the nature of identity, belonging, tolerance, and difference in our increasingly global society.
This program supports schools establish safe and inclusive communities where students can engage in honest discussions and build their voices.
These lesson plans use the Ken Burns’ documentary "Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War" to explore what motivated Waitstill and Martha Sharp to help desperate refugees.
Incorporate these community-building routines into your back-to-school lessons to set a welcoming tone, allow students to connect, and encourage goal setting.
Spark meaningful conversations about religious freedom, the nature of democracy, and civic participation with this timeless multimedia collection.
Black history is central to all of American history, and should be part of a robust teaching curriculum year-round. Alongside the lessons of Black history, it’s also critical to honor the resilience, creativity, and vitality of Black people in the face of inequity and violence, past and present. That’s why, this year, we’re celebrating Black History Month by honoring the themes of Black Agency & Black Joy.
This text set, designed for grades 8–10 and adaptable for grade 7, introduces or supplements a coming-of-age unit centered on a work of literature or student book clubs.