Honoring the Natural Environment as Home
Students explore nature and the environment as parts of home, comparing a poem by Melania Luisa Marte to a chapter of Braiding Sweetgrass.
![view of treetops as seen from the ground looking up](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/angela-benito-WgGJjGN4_ck-unsplash.jpg?h=d08f423e&itok=YqnDkB46)
Love and Acceptance as Belonging
In this lesson, students define and explore the concepts of love and acceptance and their effect on belonging through personal reflection and discussion of a short story.
![Group Of High School Students working together while learning](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/Group%20of%20high%20school%20students%20cooperate%20while%20learning%20together%20at%20school..jpg?h=4362216e&itok=oJwQtJKm)
Finding Belonging in Our Passions and Interests
Students read and analyze nonfiction narratives that explore how interests and passions create a sense of home.
![Street signs with the sunset behind it](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/javier-allegue-barros-C7B-ExXpOIE-unsplash.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=Q4bIae0Z)
Redefining Home
This culminating lesson invites students to analyze two new poems and revisit their thinking across the unit to explore how they are redefining “home.”
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Reimagining Home Summative Assessment Ideas
Help students synthesize the ideas presented in the Reimagining Home Text Set with their own concepts of home in new ways through summative assessment.
![Two students at a desk in a classroom and writing on a piece of paper on their desks](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/FHO.Bogan_.HS-24.jpg?h=10d202d3&itok=52qVmNAN)
King's Life is a Demand
A look into the Boston-based Martin Luther King Jr. memorial, “The Embrace.”
![Image of The Embrace - Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Boston](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/The_Embrace_MLK_Boston_FH2188289.jpg?h=4d7fc99e&itok=PvngqbEl)
Martha’s Vineyard, an African American Seaside Paradise
With the charming town of Oak Bluffs as a center of activity, Martha’s Vineyard became—and remains—a peaceful holiday playground for Black Americans.
![Martha's Vineyard, MA - September 10: Peggy Barmore, center, an Inkwell Polar Bear for over 20 years, leads the bears out of Inkwell Beach in Oak Bluffs after their exercise. Every morning until late October, Polar Bears gather to swim, exercise and commune. Founded in 1946 as a safe space for Black swimmers, the Polar Bears of Martha's Vineyard have a rich history.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/On%20Tony%20Martha%27s%20Vineyard%2C%20A%20Center%20Of%20Black%20Political%20Power%20Grows%20%28FH2209152%29.jpg?h=c5377bb9&itok=Sbw7miun)
Building Bridges in the Fight Against Hate
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Virtual
Jewish and Muslim students and educators share how they're building bridges to foster empathy and nuance while combating hate.
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Teaching the Election: A Workshop for New England Educators
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Boston, MA
This workshop will support educators in teaching and guiding students’ understanding of elections and the importance of democratic dialogue. This event will occur in-person.
![Women at voting booth](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-10/Day_after_Midterms_GettyImages-1058953828.jpg?h=684e6553&itok=fX0AktGo)
Brave Classrooms: Taking on Antisemitism in Schools
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Virtual
This mini-course looks at the history and evolution of antisemitism and presents steps to help students stand up against this form of hatred and bigotry.
![Protestor holding "No Tolerance for Anti-Semitism" sign at demonstration](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/CAS_FullRes.jpg?h=ec041e41&itok=rXz9OoYS)
Collective memory: Educational approaches to commemorating trauma
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Virtual
In this workshop for educators in Jewish settings, the Jewish Education Program of Facing History and Ourselves will explore how we can apply what we already know about memory and legacy to the history unfolding in our own time.
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