Education in Emergencies
Newsthink: The Afghanistan Crisis
A lesson to examine and discuss Afghanistan via an evocative photograph of people at Kabul airport during the crisis that unfolded in August 2021. Students will analyze and identify how people were impacted by this event, debate the statement "All pe...
Climate Education
Climate Change and Girls' Education: School Resource Pack
This resource pack contains a curriculum with lesson plans broken down into six steps: understanding climate change, exploring climate justice, emphasizing girls' education, empowering youth, considering behavioral and system change, and engaging in ...
Climate Education
Understanding Climate Change Handbook
A comprehensive handbook to support and stimulate teachers and students to research together in a project-based learning format what the climate crisis is and what steps are needed to minimize its effects. The handbook features a series of lessons, c...
Climate Education
Supporting Children in the Face of Climate Change
This is a video lecture of about 1.5 hours addressing four main topics: Neurobiology of child development Communicating with children about climate change Involving children in activism, and Building resilience for an uncertain future.
TACL
Trauma-Focused Teaching: Understanding Our Brains (Part 1)
Over a series of four sessions, practitioners from the MedStar Georgetown WISE center shared their expertise on how we can support students and teachers through the lens of a trauma-informed practice. In the first of this four-part series, we delved ...
TACL
Critical Minds - More Than a Number
In this video from 2013, Taylor Delhagen (Teach For America, 2006) reflects on the importance of empowering students to critically examine the world around them, rigorously explore values and exercise the perseverance needed to overcome failure.