Teaching Resources

A one-minute video, after which students can help start building their own family emergency kit. Students can decide on a place to keep their emergency kit.

A climate educator guide covering climate change basics, the carbon cycle, trees and carbon, forests of Guatemala, and investments in forest carbon.

Making quick mental calculations can be complex, but it's better to readjust in response to the natural pulse of a class. Christina "V" Villarreal, attuned to these immediate needs, exercises plasticity in her lesson plans and prioritizes spontaneous...

Developed by passionate educators during the 2025 STEAM Education & Leadership Workshops, the lesson plans shared below bridge STEM education with real-world challenges, nurturing students as problem-solvers and future leaders. They cover critica...

In this article, David Owen shares how he promotes metacognition to younger and older students. He discusses how using exit tickets and seeking feedback enable students to think about their learning more intentionally.

In this video from 2014, Clint Smith (Teach For America) performs a poem exploring his experience of teaching and his vision for helping students think deeply about social injustice and how to navigate complex power structures with a strong sense of ...