TeachableMoment, a project of Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, fosters social responsibility through K-12 classroom lessons that:
- encourage inquiry and critical thinking on current issues
- support students’ social & emotional learning
TeachableMoment was created in the wake of 9/11. In the days after the tragedy, Morningside Center began receiving calls from teachers who were looking for ways to sensitively address issues related to 9/11 in their classrooms. Our website’s traffic began to grow exponentially. We turned to lifelong educator Alan Shapiro, who had helped found Morningside Center, to help us generate new lessons - and TeachableMoment was born.
Find out more about Alan Shapiro.
TeachableMoment now includes hundreds of issue-oriented classroom lessons, as well as lessons to foster students' social and emotional learning, essays and reviews. It has been recommended as a valuable resource by the websites of PBS, the National Education Association, and many university websites. TeachableMoment has over a million visitors per year.
Teachers are free to reproduce TeachableMoment lessons for use in their classrooms. For permission to reprint materials for widespread circulation, please email: lmcclure@morningsidecenter.org.