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.
Incorporate these community-building routines into your back-to-school lessons to set a welcoming tone, allow students to connect, and encourage goal setting.
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.
Use the documentary film Reporter to explore the changing landscape of journalism and challenge students to consider their roles as creators and consumers of news.
Before you begin back-to-school planning, explore these reflection prompts and strategies that will help you center relationships and care in your teaching.
Explore the transformation of traditional Jewish life in late 19th- and early 20th-century eastern Europe through the story of renowned playwright and author, Sholem Aleichem.
Teach a unit on Jacqueline Woodson's coming-of-age memoir in verse that invites students to reflect on their own experiences and identities.
Learn how to incorporate civic education, ethical reflection and historical context into a literary exploration of Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird.
Explore an award-winning collection of diaries written by young people during the Holocaust with the help of this resource collection.