Girls' Education
Achieving Gender Equality in Education: Don't Forget the Boys
This policy paper focuses on the less recognized effects of gender norms on boys’ schooling, particularly at secondary level and amongst those from the poorest families. It urges the need to address boys’ disadvantage and disengagement in education.
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.
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...
TACL
Growth, Not Perfection
This video from 2014 shows how Teach For America alumnus Isaac Pollack, Principal of Carver High School in New Orleans, led his school guided by the simple belief that “it’s OK to make mistakes, just be better tomorrow than you were today.” This beli...
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.