Plus, calming strategies for the little ones     Morningside Center NEWSLETTER     Dear Morningside Center friends, We have some exciting news to share with you this issue, as well as some lessons and resources to honor Hispanic Heritage Month. Also see a new piece on Edutopia about how to help early elementary students manage big emotions, by staff developer Marieke van Woerkom: Teaching Young Learners Self-Calming Skills. Enjoy! Announcing the Charles Lawrence Keith & Clara Miller Foundation Training and Support Fund We are excited to announce the launch of the Charles Lawrence Keith & Clara Miller Foundation Training and Support Fund. The fund will ensure the quality and power of Morningside Center’s work for years to come by supporting the people who deliver our programs in schools: Our staff developers. Read more. Featured TeachableMoment Lessons Hispanic Heritage: Culture Community Gallery. Students celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by uplifting - and making a gallery of - all things Hispanic in our lives. Latinx? Hispanic? Exploring Identity through Art. Students experience how a range of Latinx illustrators touch on language, identity, and self-expression through their comics – and explore the significance of terms such as Latinx, Hispanic, Latino, and Latina. Reflecting on National Hispanic Heritage Month. This lesson uses Hispanic Heritage Month as a jumping off point for discussing how "history" is shaped and what we can do together to include a wider variety of voices and narratives in our study of history. What We're Reading Teacher Power Can Be the Force for Education. What Would That Look Like? "The current 'system' of education does not work for the majority of students. The situation is worsening, battered by the pandemic that exposed the inner weakness of a structure and culture that does not support well-being and learning in the world in which we live." By Michael Fullan & Joanna Rizzotto at Education Week Do Our Students Really Understand Restorative Justice? "Understanding, acknowledging, and repairing harm can be a complex and hard concept for young people to process. How we prepare them for it can make all the difference." By Leslie Duhaylongsod at ASCD After Teachers, America’s Schools Spend More on Security Guards Than Any Other Role "America’s schools collectively spend more than $2.5 billion each year on school resource officers and $12 billion on security guards, according to new estimates from researchers at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit think tank." By Mark Lieberman & Caitlynn Peetz at Education Week “Happiness is here right now. Nothing to hurry, nothing to worry.” – From a collective poem by Morningside staff developers   Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility www.morningsidecenter.org   Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility | 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 550, New York, NY 10115 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected]