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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 share their thoughts and feelings in response to the conviction of police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd.
Students learn about and discuss the current state of the youth climate movement and how young people are helping to shape our nation's response to the climate crisis.
Students practice identifying and using stress management strategies to better cope with upsetting news.
Students hear the story of one Asian American family, consider some key dates in the history of racism against Asian Americans, and learn about and discuss their own family history
Students learn about and discuss why people around the world are calling for a “people’s vaccine” to protect everyone against Covid.
Students explore the accelerating move toward electric vehicles and consider how we might address some of the remaining obstacles to this transition.
In this two-minute video, staff developer Iris Laurencio demonstrates a breathing technique that can help both young people and adults reduce stress on the spot.
Students engage in inquiry to uncover the history of redistricting and gerrymandering and discuss the provisions of H.R.1, which proposes an end to partisan redistricting.
Students grapple with numbers in the news, from the minimum wage bill to Bezos's billions.
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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.