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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 listen to and reflect on Amanda Gorman's powerful poem, which she recited at the 2021 presidential inauguration.
Students watch videos with Martin Luther King III and Rev. William Barber, co-founder of today’s Poor People’s Campaign, and discuss the continuing fight for economic and racial
Here's a collection of online lessons and resources to help you talk with students about the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Here are some basic guidelines for opening up discussion on difficult issues with your elementary and middle school students.
Ideas and resources for you to consider as you prepare for conversations with elementary students about the January 6 insurrection and the issues surrounding it.
Students learn about the history of policing in African American communities and connect it to the controversy over how police treated insurrectionists at the Capitol on January 6
The election of Raphael Warnock to be Georgia's first Black senator was the result of decades of organizing by voting rights activists. Students discuss that history and the news.
Students reflect on the state of democracy in the U.S. in light of the insurrection at the Capitol, and discuss news stories about events during the first week of 2021.
Why are some people skeptical about getting a Covid vaccine, even though evidence shows that the approved vaccines are safe and effective? And who should be vaccinated first
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The attack on Ukraine is on the minds of many young people - and adults. Here, we share some resources for discussing upsetting issues in the news.
Students consider the ongoing problem of student loan debt and how grassroots activism has elevated this issue in American politics.
Making time for students to do a bit of crafting can provide joy and comfort - and brighten up your classroom.
A selection of activities, in honor of Respect for All Week, to help you and your class appreciate each other, promote respect, and stop oppressive behavior.
Legislators in 19 states have passed laws that weaken a pillar of democracy: the right to vote. Students examine this legislation and efforts by grassroots groups to protect and
Students learn about and reflect on the life and values of the activist and thinker Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on December 26, 2021.