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TeachableMoment Lessons
Featured Lessons
26 prompts with accompanying graphics, providing you with enough opportunities for connection and engagement for every weekday in a month (and a few extras!).
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.
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 learn about three activists who are credited with starting the Stonewall Rebellion that launched the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement.
Through readings, circle gatherings, and resources, students explore the history of Juneteenth and share their thoughts about community, liberation, and celebration.
We offer guidelines and activities for discussing upsetting events and for supporting students in their aftermath.
This simple process will enable your class to create a song expressing their feelings about the climate crisis - or other issues on their minds.
Young people led the way in historic union victories at Amazon and Starbucks. Is labor making a comeback?
Collected lessons and resources for increasing knowledge and awareness during AAPI month - or any time.
May is AAPI Heritage Month. These maps, definitions, and links to additional resources provide an introduction to the AAPI community and AAPI issues.
Students listen to and reflect on a range of voices about the leaked Supreme Court draft ruling that would reverse Roe v. Wade.
Invite students to think about the power of storytelling, and make time for storytelling in your classroom.
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Watch, read about — and try! — this 'snippet of magic' for younger elementary students.
Looking for engaging activities on amazing women and their movements? Here’s our collection!
How can we turn a rough day with students into a teachable moment? Here's one teacher's strategy for a "reset" that promotes accountability.
School boards around the country are embroiled in controversies on issues ranging from the rights of transgender students to teaching on race. Should students have a say on school
Young people are exposed to more troubling, tragic, and controversial events than ever before, often starting at a young age. Here are steps we can take to address upsetting events