Climate Education
Greening Curriculum Guidance
This guidance outlines a comprehensive framework on how quality climate change and sustainability can be reflected in the curriculum by setting expected learning outcomes per age group. It aims to support countries, schools, or individual practitione...
Climate Education
Tierra Maestra Climate Education Video
Tierra Maestra believes that nature is the wisest school. It is the school that knows how to keep balance and cares for all life. Natalia Herrera, an Empieza por Educar alumni, co-founded Tierra Maestra to reconnect teachers with nature and understan...
Education in Emergencies
Make a Family Emergency Plan
This three-page worksheet helps students make an emergency plan, which helps everyone know what to do if an emergency ever happens. It includes family contact details, emergency contacts, an emergency meeting place, neighborhood helpers, and more.
Girls' Education
Girls' Voices Curriculum
A 10-week curriculum to support girl leaders and their allies to identify the issues that impact girls most in their communities, develop strategies to amplify their voices, launch girl-led advocacy campaigns, and effectively educate decisionmakers.
Inclusive Education
Metacognitive Strategies or “Thinking About My Thinking”
This article shares different types of metacognitive strategies for use in the classroom. Within this article are additional resources for students to reflect on their learning and for educators to use to promote metacognition in their classrooms.
Girls' Education
Math Looks the Same in the Brains of Boys and Girls, Study Finds
An article debunking myths that boys and girls start out with different cognitive abilities in mathematics. The finding challenges the idea that more boys end up in STEM fields because they are inherently better at the sort of thinking they require.
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