Just Breathe: Teach Your Students Belly Breathing for Self-Regulation and Well-Being
Managing your feelings requires the ability to respond to strong emotions in an appropriate way. In this belly breathing for kids activity, students w…
School Type: K12
Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement: Engaging Outside of the School Building
To build trust and relationships with families, it can be helpful for school staff to engage with families in spaces or at events in which families fe…
Develop Literacy Skills and Civic Competency: Plan an Identity Artifact Museum Activity
Do Something performance tasks ask students to demonstrate their anti-bias awareness and civic competency by applying their literacy and social justic…
Liberatory Design Cards: Engage Your Students in Equity Center Design
Create opportunities for the human-centered designer to notice and reflect on the identities, experiences and biases they bring to a design opportunit…
The Challenge Zone: Implement These Techniques to Build a Culture of Critical Thinking
Using these techniques in daily interactions with educators, students, and parents can shape a shared respect for critical thinking that’s accessibl…
Student-Led SEL Implementation: Develop Schoolwide SEL Norms
Schoolwide norms are a set of agreed-upon expectations of how all students and staff will behave and interact to contribute to a positive school clima…
Student Empowerment: Support Student-Led Social Change
This activity is designed to make you think about what matters to your students when it comes to leading for change. What do they feel empowered to do…
Student Life Connection: Implement Programs to Explore Interests and Aspirations
Implement programs like Roadtrip Nation to give students the opportunity to explore their interests and aspirations while also building ownership of l…
Time to Process: Allow Students Space for Major Life Transitions
Provide students time and space for processing major life transitions including the change from middle school to high school and the change from high …
Communicating With Gen Z: Responding to the Evolving Communication Needs of Students
A 2019 study on workplace readiness surveyed over 3,000 members of Generation Z (Gen Z), or those born between approximately 1996-2010. Respondents fe…