Below you’ll find a collection of tips, strategies and lessons to help you focus on community care in your classrooms; ensure all students feel heard; and address current events in your class. And please join our upcoming online workshop Self-Care & Communal Care for Adults!
Listening Circles: When upsetting events happen in the world, they arouse strong feelings in many of us—sadness, anger, fear, confusion, worry. We tend to carry these feelings with us through the day at work or at school. This strategy creates a safe space for expression and active listening.
How to Create a Culture of Care in Schools—and Why: It takes time and patience and attention. It takes a coalition of the willing, purveyors of hope, and believers. And it takes an intentional process. Come along as we share how to foster communal care in your own spaces.
How Can We Care for Each Other? In this small-group activity, middle school students learn more about how we are interconnected and explore ways to practice community care in their school communities and beyond.
Exploring Solidarity & Mutual Support: Through small-group activities, students learn about and discuss acts of solidarity and mutual support that can sustain us in difficult times.
How Can We Support Our Immigrant Students? It is 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.
Responding to Upsetting Stories in the News: Young people are exposed to more troubling, tragic and controversial events than ever before, often starting at a young age. Here are steps to take to address upsetting events in ways that support our students.
Exploring and Discussing Current Events with Younger Students: A collection of activities and strategies designed for exploring and discussing current events with elementary-age children.
Listening Exchanges to Nourish Community: This series of short videos will get you started with listening exchanges. Being truly listened to helps human beings in profound ways. When we absorb someone else’s relaxed attention, we can process and regulate our emotions, think our way through challenges and engage in areas where we are inclined to disengage. Equal listening exchanges are a tool and a process that will support students to take risks as learners, build community and nurture everyone's ability to handle challenging emotions when they arise.
December 3rd Workshop: Self-Care & Communal Care for Adults
Explore how our well-being is tied to our community’s well-being by exploring the connections between self-care and communal care and reviewing concrete and sustainable ways to navigate our responses to stress. Early bird tickets are available through November 7—register now!