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Dear John,
Check out our resources, lesson plans and events to guide your ongoing conversations about election-related issues, recognize November as Native American Heritage Month, teach about resistance during the Holocaust, and support you and your students in understanding and challenging bias. | |
Teaching about Elections
Use our lesson plans, teaching tools, children’s books and other resources to continue conversations about the election. “The Election is Over... Now What?” provides a format for post-election discussions that enable students to express their thoughts in a safe and respectful environment.
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Leaning into Difficult Conversations
Webinar: November 18 | @ 4 PM ET
Gain resources and strategies for improving students’ communication skills for better civic understanding and participation. Register Now | | | |
Native American Heritage Month
Use our curriculum and other educational resources to bring the themes of Native American Heritage Month to your classroom in November and throughout the year. Get Resources | | | |
Spiritual Resistance: Defiance through Music and Art in Theresienstadt
Webinar: November 18 | @ 4-5 PM ET
Presented in partnership with The Defiant Requiem Foundation, this webinar will provide historical context and classroom resources to enhance instruction around spiritual resistance during the Holocaust. Register Now | | | |
New Lesson Plan
What are Reparations and Should We Enact Them?
Use this high school lesson plan to teach about the history and rationale for reparations for slavery and engage students in reflecting on theirs and other points of view. Download Lesson Plan | | | |
Book of the Month
Equality's Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America
This picture book for ages 5-9 is an engaging and poignant history of voting rights, the activists who answered equality’s call and the work that remains for equitable voting rights. Get Book and Discussion Guides | | | |
Table Talk
What's the Census and Why Does It Matter?
Engage in a family conversation about what the U.S. Census is, why it's important, how it impacts the Electoral College and what some of the issues and controversies have been over the years. Read More | | | |
New Blog
Diverse and Complex Narratives Cultivate Empathy and Action
Learn about a new study from Define American that highlights the importance of narrative stories as a catalyst for fostering empathy and motivating action, and how it can be applied to other narratives used in the classroom. Read Blog | | | |
Anti-Bias Curriculum for Sale
Use our elementary, middle and high school curriculum guides. They are designed to help students explore identity, understand and appreciate differences, and analyze and challenge bias. Purchase Curriculum | |
