After analyzing "Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia" by Carmen Lomas Garza, students create a class book with artwork and information about their ancestry, traditions, and recipes, followed by a potluck lunch.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Unit of Study
K-1st lesson designed to develop class routines and procedures while providing students the opportunity to develop locomotor skills as well as build social emotional skills.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Circles use a highly structured process to create a safe space where people can share their feelings and experiences. Since 2011, Morningside Center has partnered with the NYC Department of Education to introduce Peace and Restorative Circles into schools around New York City. Here, Morningside Center trainer Marieke van Woerkom outlines the basic elements of Circles.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
A student reflects on his travel to New Orleans, where he helped rebuild parts of the Ninth Ward.
Material Type: Lesson
Students fall through the cracks every year and educators continue to do everything in their power to avoid it. NDMTSS is an improvement framework that provides all students with the best opportunity to succeed academically and behaviorally in school. This film gives educators an introduction to the MTSS framework, including systems, behavior, and academics
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This handout was created for a Write Night when the student health center couldn't make it and we wanted some mindfulness resources. It includes three different techniques I learned in group therapy as a grad student.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The goal of this lesson plan is for students to be able to learn to identify, respond to, and limit the negative impact of cyberbullying and other unethical or harmful online behaviors through providing various resources and an interactive board game that we have created.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This website is a comprehensive set of resources for students K-12, parents and teachers. The topics include online security, digital relationships and cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital citizenship, student data, copyright and maintaining a healthy balance of digital exposure.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This website is a comprehensive look at digital citizenship for K-12 students, parents and teachers. It covers a wide variety of topics including: online security, online relationships and cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital citizenship, the use of copyrighted information and much more.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Student Guide
