Plus, a Lesson on the Unsung Heroes of the Covid Crisis Morningside Center NEWSLETTER Dear Morningside Center friends, We send warm wishes to you and your family. We hope you're well! Below, you'll find new lessons to help teachers and students during this crisis - the latest of many we've created over the past weeks and months. These materials have been downloaded by tens of thousands of educators, who clearly need this support right now. If you find our lessons and guidelines helpful, now would be great time to support us in creating them. With our school contracts canceled for the rest of the year and our staff developers on layoff, we're hard pressed to cover the cost of these lessons right now. But kids and teachers need them, so here they are! Please share them widely, and if you can, give to our Emergency Fund for Caring Classrooms. Thank you for being part of our community!  New on TeachableMoment Unsung Heroes: Food Workers During the Covid Crisis Students hear the voices of the food workers who harvest, deliver, serve, and sell our food, and consider the lives and needs of people who are on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. I Learned it in Homeschool: Plans for Learning during Covid-19 This activity, aimed at caregivers and their middle or high-schoolers, provides a student-driven process for young people to think flexibly and creatively about their opportunities for learning during this period, formulate ideas, and follow through on them. Covid Crisis Support lessons for all grades We've added to our grade-specific series, with lessons on feelings, change & loss, and fun activities for remote learning. What we're reading Teachers, We Cannot Go Back to the Way Things Were "We now have the opportunity not to just reimagine schooling or try to reform injustice but to start over. Starting over is hard but not impossible; we now have a skeleton of a playbook. It starts with creativity, teacher-student relationships, and teacher autonomy." By Bettina L. Love at Education Week NYC educators brace for student mental health challenges after coronavirus lockdown on classes ends "'Engaging students back in school is going to be very challenging,' the social worker said. 'We have just experienced a sort of collective trauma.'" By Michael Elsen-Rooney at the New York Daily News Covid-19 shines a light on racial, economic, and healthcare inequities that existed long before the pandemic. From the Washington Post: The Bronx Is NYC's Coronavirus Capital Covid is Ravaging One of the Country’s Wealthiest Black Counties As School Goes Online, Educators Cannot Forget Students’ Social and Emotional Learning "I am disappointed with leaders and educators who want us to push through this pandemic with children as if it is not happening. There has been such a focus on trauma and trauma-informed schools—but when trauma is at the door, everyone seems to forget their training. " By Dr. Tawanna Jones Morrison at Ms. Magazine Closed Schools Are Creating More Trauma For Students "The job of the school counselor has evolved over the years, from academic guide to something deeper: the adult in a school tasked with fostering students' social and emotional growth, a mental health first responder and a confidant for kids, especially teens, who often need a closed door and a sympathetic ear." By Cory Turner at NPR “We deserve hazard pay. We deserve paid sick leave. We’re risking [our lives] going to work, and we’re still getting paid the same poverty wages and I don’t think that’s fair.” -- Fast food worker, from our lesson on Unsung Heroes 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 | About Constant Contact Sent by [email protected]