Teaching Resources

This lesson plan puts a spotlight on the significant challenges facing people with disabilities during serious climate events, like a hurricane or snow storm through a news segment.

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...

This exercise invites us to contemplate and reflect on the underlying purposes of our education systems.

This article from 2015 uses Empieza Por Educar fellow Óliver Jabato's experience to reflect on two patterns we see in transformational classrooms around the world: collective ownership (teachers and students sharing ownership of learning) and st...

Character strengths are the positive parts of your personality that make you feel authentic and engaged. You possess all 24 character strengths in different degrees, giving you a unique character strengths profile. Discover your greatest qualities an...

Teachers can put students in control of how they absorb information by giving them multiple options to achieve learning goals.

In this video from 2015, watch how Teach For India fellow Pooja Chopra collaborated with her students' mothers to design a business and build their skillsets to be advocates for their daughters' learning and dreams.