Inclusive Education
Boosting Metacognition and Executive Functions in the Classroom
Heather Branigan and Margarita Kanevski discuss the relationship between metacognition and executive functions. They share five strategies with a focus on being explicit, modeling, and consolidating learning regardless the strategy.
Girls' Education
Building a Generation to Transform Gender Norms: Breakthrough India’s 'Gang of Stars'
An overview of the Gang of Stars (Taaron Ki Toli) youth-club based program creating awareness about gender issues among secondary school students. It evaluates the results of the intervention with 14,000 adolescents in 300 schools in Haryana, India.
TACL
Trauma-Focused Teaching: Understanding Our Brains (Part 2)
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 this second session, we delved into understand...
Climate Education
Learners in the Fight Against Climate Change (Zimbabwe)
Learners in the Fight Against Climate Change is a school club led by Edson Dongo from Teach For Zimbabwe and his students that aims to 'plant' in students the tools and skills they need to navigate and lead the climate-changed world they will inherit...
Education in Emergencies
Chemical Weapons
A lesson to introduce what chemical weapons are and how they fit within international humanitarian law. Students will understand the facts about what chemical weapons are and why they are banned, discuss why we have rules during conflict, and conside...
Girls' Education
Tackling the Taboo: Sexuality and Gender-Transformative Programmes to End Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Unions
This report is on gender-transformative work in politically and culturally conservative contexts. It explores how addressing child, early, and forced marriage and unions advances girls’ and women’s sexual agency, bodily autonomy, freedom and dignity.
TACL
Strength in Unity 1: Co-Constructing a Learning Community of Student Leaders
Through this video from 2015, visit a classroom in Delhi where Pooja Chopra, a former teacher with Teach For India, partnered with students to create their vision and community.
Education in Emergencies
Trinka and Sam: The Rainy Windy Day
This story helps young children, their families, and teachers talk about feelings and worries they may have around hurricanes. By describing the reactions of the characters Trinka and Sam, this children's book demonstrates how their parents can help ...