Dear Morningside Center friends,

Below you'll find our collected lessons for Women's History Month, as well as a new lesson that has students explore one positive climate action: making cities bike-friendly.

Also, National SEL Week is coming up on March 4-8, with SEL Day on March 8th. To mark the occasion, try one of our SEL Tips, featured here. Enjoy!

Teaching on Women's History Month

Looking for engaging activities on amazing women and their movements? Here’s our collection on everything from intersectionality to the suffragettes.

Is Your City Bike-Friendly?

Students explore how to create safe city spaces for bicyclists and collaboratively problem-solve around this issue - and consider other positive changes to address climate change in their communities.

SEL Tips

Looking for a way to celebrate SEL Week in March?

Our SEL Tips will help you use social & emotional learning strategies to build skills and strengthen your classroom community every day with practical strategies from storytelling to a classroom "reset."

What We're Reading

Restorative Practices Don’t Just Belong in the Classroom. Leaders Should Use Them Too.

Respectful conflict resolution, starting meetings with a talking circle, and other ways this administrator is walking the walk. By Sonja Gedde in EdWeek.

A New Theory on the Teen Mental Health Crisis. While rising rates of teen mental health issues can’t be pinned to a single root cause, a 2023 study surfaced a compelling connection to the decline in childhood independence. A short video from Edutopia.

NYC students, advocates call for school-based restorative justice, mental health funding

"Lexi is one of the dozens of students urging the city to increase funding for restorative justice — a philosophy rooted in providing students and staff space to talk through conflicts without resorting to more punitive measures." by Julian Shen-Burris on Chalkbeat.

"Whatever they tell you that you cannot do, do it twice…and take pictures."

Paula Fontana