Teaching Resources

In this video from 2013, Teach For America alumnus Taylor Delhagen facilitates a debate to develop students’ critical thinking. Taylor provides concrete strategies for students to process information and develop their own viewpoints.

These resources by the American Red Cross are designed to teach young children and their families how to stay safe during disasters and emergencies through fun activities such as matching games and storybooks featuring Pedro the penguin.Topics covere...

A lesson to examine and discuss the humanitarian situation in Venezuela and the principle of neutrality. The economic crisis in Venezuela has been frequently reported in the news, but behind these headlines, there is a serious and growing humanitaria...

This resource has 10 interactive lesson activities to help children ages 5-11 understand their own human rights and the values and attitudes that underpin them. Subjects include global and fair trade, poverty and inequality, identity, and children's ...

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...

In this reflective exercise, we reflect on where we are on a full spectrum of perspectives related to the lens of Students as Leaders, and we consider what other “spectra” of perspectives are related to this lens.

This resource offers tools to measure Agency.

In this reflective exercise, we explore the benefits and costs of both ends of a spectrum related to the lens of Our Work as Systemic.

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.

Explore different tools for gathering feedback from your students.