SEL and RP
Classroom activities that encourage students' social and emotional learning and promote restorative practices
In this lesson, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear.
In this interactive workshop, students explore what escalates and deescalates conflict, consider nonviolent action as an assertive response to conflict, and learn about Occupy Wall Street's use of nonviolence as a strategy.
What gives rise to terrorism? A set of student readings explore this difficult question with profiles of two terrorists and information about their motivations and beliefs.
Students examine how feelings are expressed in a poem, and then use metaphor to write about their own feelings.
Students work in small groups to create a group "machine."
Suggestions for guiding students through a class project on an issue they care about--including a student activity that shines a light on group process.
There's no escaping it: Teaching is a political act.
An inquiry approach to reading a poem focuses not on text questions but on student questions.