Teaching Resources

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

In this story, learn how a Teach For India fellow had his lens transformed by spending a day shadowing his students' parents.

In 2018, the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted, releasing toxic gas emissions, lava flows, and ash. These lesson activities encourage students to consider what it might be like knowing that you may need to evacuate, how you could prepare, and living ...

This resource focuses on how individuals and communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from life-changing natural disasters. It also explores the causes of earthquakes using the examples of the 2015 Nepal earthquake, 2010 Haiti earthquake, and...

A guide for teachers on how to defuse tension and reduce conflict in difficult situations. Lesson activities are designed to help students when tensions are in the air and a disagreement seems to be building into something more threatening. Students ...

A 45-second video clip of Rosita and her mother preparing an emergency kit. Teachers can help students to prepare for the unexpected or recovering from it while discussing what they saw.