Plus lessons on electric cars and more Morningside Center NEWSLETTER Dear Morningside Center friends, Below you'll find a new video SEL Tip - a simple breathing technique that we and our students can use to calm down on the spot. Plus, it's Earth Month. Hear how one teacher infuses climate change into her English class, and check out our new lesson on electric cars. Also below: good stuff to read on how we can counter anti-Asian bias in our classrooms.  Also, if you missed it live, you can now watch our webinar on implicit bias on demand. From the Blog Why Limit the Climate Crisis to Science Class? The climate crisis: It’s not something that will just affect scientists, so why limit it to science class? High school teacher Sarah Outterson-Murphy shares how her students developed their English skills by grappling with a "real, urgent, relevant, large-scale, yet-unsolved problem." New on TeachableMoment Are We Ready for Electric Cars? Students explore the accelerating move toward electric vehicles and consider how we might address some of the remaining obstacles to this transition. This lesson consists of two readings, providing background on how electric vehicles have become an increasingly viable option as well as examining some of the remaining obstacles. SEL Tip: Physiological Sigh In this two-minute video, Morningside Center staff developer Iris Laurencio demonstrates a simple breathing technique that can help both young people and adults reduce stress on the spot. What We're Reading and Watching Student Voice: Here’s why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism "I grew up in an area with a large Asian American population, including 25 percent of the students in my high school. And yet, I have never had the opportunity to discuss anti-Asian racism in the classroom, learn about Asian American history or engage with educators who understand my experiences." By Amy Zhai at the Hechinger Report Students Demand New Jersey Schools Teach About Anti-Asian Bias and Black Lives Matter "A new battle recently erupted in Allendale, New Jersey when high school students and an alumni pressed the district superintendent to engage students in discussion of the wave of anti-Asian American bias in the United States and the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement as a challenge to racism." By Alan Singer at the Daily Kos A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms "And in fact, educators and historians tell TIME, anti-Asian racism is directly linked to history, and how members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community are often depicted in U.S. history lessons: as foreigners or national security threats, as opposed to people who have lived and worked in America and have challenged it to live up to its ideals of equality for all." By Olivia B. Waxman at Time magazine Donate “It shouldn’t take acts of violence for schools to pay attention to their Asian American students.” ― Amy Zhai, from the Hechinger Report 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 | Customer Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected]