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Featured Lessons
Six classroom activities focused on sharing appreciations and gratitude that you can use this month, or anytime!
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.
A collection of activities and strategies designed for exploring and discussing current events with elementary-age children.
SEL & RP
Activities to support students' social and emotional learning and restorative practices
Current Issues
Classroom activities to engage students in learning about and discussing issues in the news
Tips & Ideas
Guidance and inspiration to help build skills and community in your classroom and school
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Students explore the diversity of names and traditions people in different countries use to celebrate the Lunar New Year, and consider how we can be more inclusive in marking this
Some suggestions to give your students space to share their thoughts and feelings about the events surrounding the death of Tyre Nichols.
Students read about and discuss positive and negative impacts of social media, and reflect on their own experiences through pair shares and group discussion.
Students explore new angles on the life and ideas of Martin Luther King Jr., and consider their own responses and (re)commitments to justice.
Mindfulness practices can help both students and adults stay grounded and connected. This guided visualization activity is one way to bring the benefits of mindfulness to your
Studies show that isolation and sadness among young people have increased since the pandemic. Students explore ways to address this problem as a society.
A collection of TeachableMoment activities for exploring holiday feelings, finding joy, and more.
The gap between rich and poor is still growing. Students examine the evidence, and consider what young people, and others, are doing to raise wages and close the gap.
In a healing circle, students share their responses to the attack on an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs.
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Students explore the value of humor, how sometimes "jokes" become hurtful, and what we can do when that happens.
Educators often say that books can teach us so much. What lessons can young people learn from fiction about how to cope with climate change? Here are seven lessons that can be
An expanded guide of fiction to engage your students in an imaginative exploration of the climate crisis (updated July 2023).
This second-grade teacher found a way to bring comfort and promote learning in stressful times.
Student unions have successfully taken on issues ranging from student bus passes to assault weapons bans. What are they?
Students learn about Juneteenth, share family histories, and explore resources on the holiday and current efforts to erase aspects of American history and the role of Black people