Free TeachMeet on September 23: Navigating the Election
In today’s diverse and interconnected world, fostering a culture of respectful dialogue is essential for creating inclusive and thriving school environments. This collection of resources is designed to support educators, administrators, and students in navigating complex conversations with empathy, openness, and mutual respect. By promoting positive civil discourse, we empower students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens who contribute meaningfully to their communities.
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Learn an IFSEL strategy or two and hear approaches and ideas from teachers and administrators, near and far, to nurture your own and your students’ SEL during the upcoming election.
Learn an IFSEL strategy or two and hear approaches and ideas from teachers and administrators, near and far, to nurture your own and your students’ SEL during the upcoming election.
Encouraging students to express their opinions in a respectful and empathetic manner helps them navigate disagreements constructively. These tips offer language and strategies to support positive communication, especially when opinions differ, empowering students within and beyond the classroom.
Encouraging students to express their opinions in a respectful and empathetic manner helps them navigate disagreements constructively. These tips offer language and strategies to support positive communication, especially when opinions differ, empowering students within and beyond the classroom.
Join NYT's election-related forums, create a multimedia project, monitor misinformation, talk to journalists and more.
Join NYT's election-related forums, create a multimedia project, monitor misinformation, talk to journalists and more.
These ideas for teaching about the election focus on social justice issues. They provide suggested strategies and activities teachers can undertake with students in order to help them analyze issues of bias, discrimination, diversity, civil rights and justice.
These ideas for teaching about the election focus on social justice issues. They provide suggested strategies and activities teachers can undertake with students in order to help them analyze issues of bias, discrimination, diversity, civil rights and justice.
This toolkit was crafted specifically with middle school teachers in mind. It is designed to help you integrate civil discourse routines and strategies into your classroom with ease, no matter what subject area you teach.
This toolkit was crafted specifically with middle school teachers in mind. It is designed to help you integrate civil discourse routines and strategies into your classroom with ease, no matter what subject area you teach.
The six Cs help students learn to collaborate, communicate, think critically, innovate, and feel confident.
The six Cs help students learn to collaborate, communicate, think critically, innovate, and feel confident.
A national nonprofit organization founded in 2013, works with people to build the relational infrastructure necessary for communities in which everyone has what they need to thrive.
A national nonprofit organization founded in 2013, works with people to build the relational infrastructure necessary for communities in which everyone has what they need to thrive.
Close Up Foundation informs, inspires, and empowers young people to exercise the rights and accept the responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.
Close Up Foundation informs, inspires, and empowers young people to exercise the rights and accept the responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.
Explore how the right to free speech has and continues to evolve since the Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution in this video from Why It Matters.
Explore how the right to free speech has and continues to evolve since the Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution in this video from Why It Matters.
This webinar dispels common misconceptions about youth civic engagement and discusses how to educate for informed and equitable voting amid rising polarization.
This webinar dispels common misconceptions about youth civic engagement and discusses how to educate for informed and equitable voting amid rising polarization.
Americans are stressed out by their presidential election. These questions will help you check in with yourself—and perhaps boost your resilience.
Americans are stressed out by their presidential election. These questions will help you check in with yourself—and perhaps boost your resilience.
Equity-focused Teaching is a corrective tool that allows instructors to acknowledge and disrupt historical and contemporary patterns of educational disenfranchisement that often negatively impact marginalized and minoritized students. It recognizes that systemic inequities shape all students’ individual and group-based experiences of social identity and produce vastly different relationships of power in and outside of the classroom, which impact students’ learning and success
Equity-focused Teaching is a corrective tool that allows instructors to acknowledge and disrupt historical and contemporary patterns of educational disenfranchisement that often negatively impact marginalized and minoritized students. It recognizes that systemic inequities shape all students’ individual and group-based experiences of social identity and produce vastly different relationships of power in and outside of the classroom, which impact students’ learning and success
The tools and strategies in this guide will help you prepare students to engage in difficult conversations on topics that matter to them, to their communities, and to our world.
The tools and strategies in this guide will help you prepare students to engage in difficult conversations on topics that matter to them, to their communities, and to our world.
In a fraught political era, news literacy skills help kids view information critically and become informed citizens.
In a fraught political era, news literacy skills help kids view information critically and become informed citizens.
Some pro-tips from Wilson Middle School history teacher Michael Williams and Jeff Hoffman, psychologist with the San Diego Unified School District, who spoke to KPBS about the resources kids can use inside and outside the classroom, and how they can foster their curiosity at home.
Some pro-tips from Wilson Middle School history teacher Michael Williams and Jeff Hoffman, psychologist with the San Diego Unified School District, who spoke to KPBS about the resources kids can use inside and outside the classroom, and how they can foster their curiosity at home.
Sometimes things seem to explode in the classroom, and what do we do then? Knowing strategies for turning difficult encounters into learning opportunities enables us to address important, but hot, topics— religion, politics, race, class, gender—in our classroom discussions.
Sometimes things seem to explode in the classroom, and what do we do then? Knowing strategies for turning difficult encounters into learning opportunities enables us to address important, but hot, topics— religion, politics, race, class, gender—in our classroom discussions.
Use these activities to help students reflect on the themes in Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Day poem and consider how their unique experiences and voices can help America “forge a union with purpose.”
Use these activities to help students reflect on the themes in Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Day poem and consider how their unique experiences and voices can help America “forge a union with purpose.”
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This two-day workshop offers K-12 educators, administrators, and counselors a comprehensive model of proactive and responsive approaches for Peace Building and Conflict Resolution.
This two-day workshop offers K-12 educators, administrators, and counselors a comprehensive model of proactive and responsive approaches for Peace Building and Conflict Resolution.
Big Bird is curious about voting. He learns that voting is a secret process where people choose who they want to run the government by using a voting booth.
Big Bird is curious about voting. He learns that voting is a secret process where people choose who they want to run the government by using a voting booth.
A history teacher leaves the struggle for objectivity behind.
A history teacher leaves the struggle for objectivity behind.
This guide is for educators and all adults in schools, and it offers advice for ways to respond to remarks made by students and other adults. It also gives guidance for helping students learn to speak up as well. And modeling the kind of behavior we want from students is one of the most effective ways of teaching.
This guide is for educators and all adults in schools, and it offers advice for ways to respond to remarks made by students and other adults. It also gives guidance for helping students learn to speak up as well. And modeling the kind of behavior we want from students is one of the most effective ways of teaching.
Sphere provides educators with viewpoint diverse resources to bring conversations to the classroom and equip students to engage in civil discourse. Sphere offers lesson plans, discussion questions, videos, and publications on various topics for use in the classroom that are exclusively nonpartisan.
Sphere provides educators with viewpoint diverse resources to bring conversations to the classroom and equip students to engage in civil discourse. Sphere offers lesson plans, discussion questions, videos, and publications on various topics for use in the classroom that are exclusively nonpartisan.
The article provides resources and guidance for supporting students from immigrant families, addressing the challenges they face in accessing education and navigating U.S. school systems. It includes information on students’ rights, tips for educators, and tools for creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for immigrant communities.
The article provides resources and guidance for supporting students from immigrant families, addressing the challenges they face in accessing education and navigating U.S. school systems. It includes information on students’ rights, tips for educators, and tools for creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for immigrant communities.
While research indicates that students appreciate when instructors respond in some way to upheavals in the wider world, instructors do so in a wide variety of ways (Huston & DiPietro, 2007). This resource outlines some factors you might want to consider as you plan your responses and a few different paths you could take in your response.
While research indicates that students appreciate when instructors respond in some way to upheavals in the wider world, instructors do so in a wide variety of ways (Huston & DiPietro, 2007). This resource outlines some factors you might want to consider as you plan your responses and a few different paths you could take in your response.
This revised and updated version of Oxfam’s popular guide recognises the seismic shifts in social and political contexts in recent years. It seeks to support educators in developing essential skills that allow learners to constructively discuss their own values and ideas, and develop as active global citizens.
This revised and updated version of Oxfam’s popular guide recognises the seismic shifts in social and political contexts in recent years. It seeks to support educators in developing essential skills that allow learners to constructively discuss their own values and ideas, and develop as active global citizens.
No matter your discipline or your prior teaching experience, this resource is intended to help you describe the stakes of this election for student learning in your context and identify some proactive steps you can take to support student learning during a tumultuous election season.
No matter your discipline or your prior teaching experience, this resource is intended to help you describe the stakes of this election for student learning in your context and identify some proactive steps you can take to support student learning during a tumultuous election season.
The article provides guidance for instructors on navigating classroom dynamics during election seasons. It suggests acknowledging the emotional impact of elections, promoting respectful dialogue, and offering support to students, while also emphasizing the importance of maintaining an intellectually challenging and inclusive environment.
The article provides guidance for instructors on navigating classroom dynamics during election seasons. It suggests acknowledging the emotional impact of elections, promoting respectful dialogue, and offering support to students, while also emphasizing the importance of maintaining an intellectually challenging and inclusive environment.
Six digital tools to help students learn how democracy works.
Six digital tools to help students learn how democracy works.
Teaching about the upcoming presidential election is challenging due to the current political climate, which makes traditional methods like debates potentially too contentious for classrooms. However, avoiding the topic altogether could imply a lack of appreciation for the electoral process, so educators must find balanced and objective ways to present information and encourage informed discussion among students.
Teaching about the upcoming presidential election is challenging due to the current political climate, which makes traditional methods like debates potentially too contentious for classrooms. However, avoiding the topic altogether could imply a lack of appreciation for the electoral process, so educators must find balanced and objective ways to present information and encourage informed discussion among students.
Dr. Glass's slides from the September 24, 2024 TeachMeet
Dr. Glass's slides from the September 24, 2024 TeachMeet
Inclusive education builds critical thinking—the intellectual tools for reflection, continuous inquiry, constructive dialogue and the possibility of changing one’s perspective—and is an essential lever for democracy.
Inclusive education builds critical thinking—the intellectual tools for reflection, continuous inquiry, constructive dialogue and the possibility of changing one’s perspective—and is an essential lever for democracy.
The purpose of the framework is not to mandate a uniform approach to these complex issues, but to encourage conversation within school communities, offer a vehicle for institutional reflection and assessment, and provide an opportunity for shared understanding and consensus among various school constituencies and stakeholders.
The purpose of the framework is not to mandate a uniform approach to these complex issues, but to encourage conversation within school communities, offer a vehicle for institutional reflection and assessment, and provide an opportunity for shared understanding and consensus among various school constituencies and stakeholders.
This guide highlights the resources and materials that the Curriculum Center has on voting and elections
This guide highlights the resources and materials that the Curriculum Center has on voting and elections
These student-facing slides contain activities that invite students to explore media bias using recent news coverage of controversial events and help students think about what healthy news habits they want to adopt.
These student-facing slides contain activities that invite students to explore media bias using recent news coverage of controversial events and help students think about what healthy news habits they want to adopt.
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One-day workshop focusing on how to create and sustain a robust advisory program in middle & high schools that centers belonging and equity.
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These creative and experiential two-day workshop offers educators, administrators, counselors and advisors the opportunity to learn how to build classroom practices and school-wide systems that nurture the social and emotional health of all members of the community.
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Two-day workshop offers K-12 educators, administrators, and counselors a comprehensive model of proactive and responsive approaches for Peace Building and Conflict Resolution.
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