Plus, self-care for you and your students!     Morningside Center NEWSLETTER     Dear Morningside Center friends, Welcome to 2024! To kick off the year, we bring you a new activity on youth environmental activism, our lesson collection for MLK Day, and more. And we just want to say THANK YOU again to everyone who donated to our year-end appeal. New and Featured on TeachableMoment Peer-Teaching About Youth Environmental Activism Students explore two recently developed youth-centered environmental programs and teach each other about them by sharing their takeaways and personal connections. Ideas for Marking Martin Luther King Day The holiday is an opportunity to engage students in exploring not only the history of this movement leader, but also ideas, strategies, and struggles that we are grappling with right now. See our collected lessons. Self/Community Care Bundle A collection of fourteen self-care and community care lessons and guidelines for adults and children. Self/Community Care Webinar Also, if you missed it, you may want to check out our webinar on Self-Care and Communal Care for Ourselves and Our Students, hosted by Morningside's Dionne Grayman and Nicole Lavonne Smith-Johnson. It was one of the top webinars of 2023 on AFT's Share My Lesson! What We're Reading In our last issue, we shared a list of the 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2023, including a powerful meta-analysis of SEL studies. An important correction: That meta-analysis was led by Christina Cipriano. Apologies for the error, and congratulations to Christina Cipriano and team! Talk is Literacy. "It is time for school leaders and teachers across the disciplines to take talk as seriously as reading and writing. Doing so will be a major step toward advancing racial justice in schools." By Leslie Duhaylongsod, Shireen Al-Adeimi, and Abby Reisman at ASCD. The Right Is Passing Bills That Ban the Teaching of Empathy and Care in Schools. Bills have been introduced in at least 25 states to remove SEL from public school curricula. By Eleanor J. Bader at Truthout. What a Principal Learned From Conflict With His Teachers. A new principal found that he had to “get comfortable with talking through conflicts, and listening to staff members’ perspectives, even when they completely disagreed with him.” By Olina Banerji at EdWeek. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.   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]