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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.
A collection of lessons, tips and videos—solid concrete ideas about how you can integrate restorative practices into your classroom this fall, or anytime!
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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This lesson has young people explore how we can use breathing to care for ourselves during times of stress – and reflect on how that works for different people.
This lesson has young people explore how we can use music to care for ourselves during times of stress - and share music they find calming with their peers.
Invite young young people to enjoy and reflect on a video recitation of the uplifting poem Sometimes.
Music can be healing, uplifting, and calming for both adults and children. This lesson has young people experience how we can use music to care for ourselves during times of stress
Music can be healing, uplifting, and calming for both adults and children. This lesson has young people experience how we can use music to care for ourselves during times of stress
Students hear the voices of the food workers who harvest, deliver, serve, and sell our food, and consider how these workers are on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.
Get students moving and and enjoying each other with one of these fun activities.
This collection of light, fun activities invite you and your students to come together and enjoy each other’s company during these stressful times, and take a break from more
This activity, aimed at caregivers and their middle or high-schoolers, provides a student-driven process for young people to think flexibly and creatively about their opportunities
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Students learn about efforts by European nations to ban Muslim face coverings, discuss the impact of these laws, then reflect on the voices of Muslim women on this issue.
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.