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Morningside is celebrating teachers’ creative bulletin boards on social and emotional learning with a contest on Twitter and Instagram from October 15th-22nd!

NYC Chancellor Richard Carranza and NYC first lady Chirlane McCray celebrate Meyer Levin Middle School as a model of social and emotional learning, restorative justice, and culturally responsive education.

This school year opens at a time of fear and trauma for immigrant children across the United States. Here are eight ways educators can protect students from harm and ease their distress.

Our AFT Teach Conference workshop this weekend was about creating a “brave community” to address race and racism in our schools. Co-facilitators Daniel Coles and Marieke van Woerkom report that educators came to the workshop ready to share, take risks, build connections, and learn. 

The 2020 presidential election is a major teachable moment for young people – and a huge opportunity to engage students in the issues that will shape their lives. But will teachers be able to take advantage of it?

The answer depends on you.

Join us in either July or August to identify and practice strategies for interrupting racism in our schools.  

An interview with Morningside Center’s new Executive Director Cassie Schwerner, from our 2018 Annual Report.

Tala Manassah on what we’re learning through our i3 Whole School Racial Equity Project, from our new Annual Report.

Sully Diaz, Director of our PAZ After-School Program at PS 24 in Sunset Park Brooklyn, shares how she and her staff make everyone feel welcome in a program whose participants come from all over the world. 

Morningside Center stands in solidarity with Muslim communities across the world in the wake of the horrific attack in Christchurch, New Zealand.