Girls' Education
General Versus Girl-Targeted Interventions: A False Dichotomy? A Response to Evans and Yuan
This paper provides a review of Evans and Yuan’s 2019 paper "What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls." It disagrees with their conclusion and recommends combining girl-targeted and general interven...
Climate Education
Plastic-free Campuses and Education
Break Free From Plastic has created manuals that can help map out policies towards plastic-free campuses. There are also plastic-free campaign resources that can aid teachers in designing lesson plans for any grade level and adapt modules to existing...
Education in Emergencies
Migration to Britain: Crossing the Channel
A lesson plan to consider why migrants decide to risk the dangerous journey across the Channel to Britain. Students will build empathy in a role-play activity, and consider the reasons why people choose or are forced to leave their homes. They will a...
Climate Education
Maps of the New World
Anthropocene Magazine developed a set of maps to help think about our future planet earth in a geographically altered world (including through the impacts of climate change – melting ice, warmer average temperatures, etc.). This could be an interesti...
Education in Emergencies
Sesame Street Support After a Hurricane
A guide including tips, activities, and videos to help students feel safe, cope with emotions, and understand that there is hope for the future after a hurricane. Resource includes: giving students the facts; comforting your students; listening and t...
Climate Education
Interactive Learning Toolkit on Climate Change
The Climate Box consists of an illustrated textbook, climate quiz, map, and poster, that can provide students with important information on issues related to global climate change in an interesting, attractive, and entertaining way.
TACL
Ambassadors of Empathy
In this video from 2014, former special education teacher and Teach For America Alumnus, Michael Mahoney shares how he wants his students to have a sense of unlimited possibility for what they can be and what they can contribute to the world.
TACL
Samia Habli Creating Healing Spaces
In this video from 2020, Samia shows how she created healing spaces inside and outside of the classroom for her students to begin developing the awareness and agency they needed to understand and overcome the inequities they were facing.
Climate Education
Food and Climate Change Curriculum
A collection of seven solutions-focused, project-based, and experiential approach lessons, centered on the question of how food systems relate to climate change. Educators can use these lessons to integrate climate change discussions across subjects,...