6 Classroom Design Tips for Teachers
These classroom design strategies will help you set up your classroom to positively impact student behavior and deepen learning.
Exploring Identity, Agency, and Belonging in an ELA classroom for NYCPS
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New York, NY
This workshop for New York City Public School middle and high teachers will explore ELA classroom resources that deepen students’ understanding of identity and belonging and inspire their sense of agency. This event will be held in-person.
The Meaning of Home
In this lesson, students reflect on notable quotes about home and watch Pico Iyer’s TED Talk to examine and build on their understanding of home.
Rural, Urban, Suburban: Stories of Place
Students examine the relationship between regional identity and home through photo analysis, journaling, and a 2018 study from the Pew Research Center.
Media Literacy for Well-being, Relationships, and Democracy for NYCPS Educators
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New York, NY
This workshop for New York City Public School middle and high faculty will explore how to have reflective and constructive conversations with students about media literacy. This event will be held in-person.
Honoring the Natural Environment as Home
Students explore nature and the environment as parts of home, comparing a poem by Melania Luisa Marte to a chapter of Braiding Sweetgrass.
Love and Acceptance as Belonging
In this lesson, students define and explore the concepts of love and acceptance and their effect on belonging through personal reflection and discussion of a short story.
Finding Belonging in Our Passions and Interests
Students read and analyze nonfiction narratives that explore how interests and passions create a sense of home.
Redefining Home
This culminating lesson invites students to analyze two new poems and revisit their thinking across the unit to explore how they are redefining “home.”
Reimagining Home Summative Assessment Ideas
Help students synthesize the ideas presented in the Reimagining Home Text Set with their own concepts of home in new ways through summative assessment.
King's Life is a Demand
A look into the Boston-based Martin Luther King Jr. memorial, “The Embrace.”