Teaching Resources

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 ...

This video from 2013 portrays how we can't effectively work to empower young people without building relationships with them first. Watch this video to learn from former youth worker Susie Gray's approach to building relationships with students.

Fishbanks is a multiplayer web-based simulation in which participants play the role of fishers and seek to maximize their net worth as they co-exist with other players and deal with variations in fish stocks and their catch. It gives a simplified sho...

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 student...

A lesson to reflect on the crisis in Myanmar by looking at a photo of people who have fled the violence there. Students will share what they already know about the Myanmar crisis, develop empathy with the people affected, and consider what kind of he...

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 ...