Teaching Resources

This article by Rebecca Alber explores the concept of backward planning in education, emphasizing the importance of thinking ahead to improve instructional design and student learning outcomes.

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.

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...

This publication is designed as a guide for education professionals on the use of Education for Sustainable Development in learning for the SDGs, and consequently to contribute to achieving the SDGs. The guide identifies indicative learning objective...

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.

In this 2013 video, Teach For America alumnus Isaac Pollack tackles the seemingly impossible task of transforming Carver High School in New Orleans. Faced with academic gaps and skepticism from students in impoverished, violent neighborhoods, Isaac g...