Teaching Resources

In this video from 2013, Taylor Delhagen (Teach For America, 2006) reflects on the importance of empowering students to critically examine the world around them, rigorously explore values and exercise the perseverance needed to overcome failure.

In this video from 2014, Taylor Delhagen helps students develop critical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills with curiosity and critical questioning and valuing the teachable moments in failure.

In this video from 2015, Teach For America corps member Wisdom Amouzou and his students explore these questions in their classroom.

This two-minute video reminds students that there's always someone helping. After watching the video together, ask students to name some of the special helpers they can go to in an emergency (such as a doctor, firefighter, police officer, or tea...

An article debunking myths that boys and girls start out with different cognitive abilities in mathematics. The finding challenges the idea that more boys end up in STEM fields because they are inherently better at the sort of thinking they require.

In this reflective exercise, we explore the benefits and costs of both ends of a spectrum related to Teachers as Learners.