Exploring Civil Rights and Migration: 18-week Curriculum Outline
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Recommended for 7th and 8th-grade, this outline provides an instructional pathway for middle school educators to teach an 18-week curriculum exploring membership, belonging, and the power of individual and collective choices.
Exploring Identity and Community: 18-week Curriculum Outline
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Recommended for 6th grade, this outline provides an instructional pathway for middle school educators to teach an 18-week curriculum exploring identity, family legacy, group membership and choices.
Eyes on the Prize Study Guide
This guide provides a framework for using the landmark documentary film Eyes on the Prize as a tool for teaching the civil rights movement.
Remote Book Clubs: Nurturing Community and Connection
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This guide provides tips and resources for launching remote book clubs that foster a sense of community and connection among students.
Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement
Use this resource on the Eugenics movement of the early 1900s to deepen students' understanding of the history of racism in the United States.
Understanding Adolescents
This short reading will deepen your understanding of adolescence and prepare you to engage your students in conversations about becoming and belonging in the world.
Twilight, Los Angeles Study Guide
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Use this guide to the documentary film Twilight to help students investigate the trial of the Los Angeles police officers indicted for the beating of Rodney King.
The Road to Brown
This film shows the legal case against segregation that launched the civil rights movement.
Map the Internal World of a Character
Students use this handout to analyze a character's thoughts, feelings, motivations, and sense of belonging.
Map the Internal World of a Character (en español)
In Spanish, students use this handout to analyze a character's thoughts, feelings, motivations, and sense of belonging.