In this issue, we offer a project-based learning activity that promotes self-care, an activity that invites students to explore the summer's news, and lots of insight and ideas for teaching on 9/11.

Plus, a Labor Day-inspired lesson on young people and unions, and our collection of activities to start the year. We send you our warm wishes for the fall!

NY1 Story on Teaching about 9/11 Morningside's Tala Manassah and other educators weigh in. Says Tala: "There are so many examples of the human capacity for compassion for healing, for helping, for showing up for other people that happened on that day and the weeks that followed. You should start there, but not end the story there."

How can educators acknowledge the anniversary of September 11th and educate students about the events of that day and their impact? Here's our guide for K-12.

In this back-to-school activity, high school students partner with students from a class in a neighboring school to share and document strategies and coping mechanisms for getting through challenging times.

Students discuss the concept of Ubuntu, or interconnectedness, then consider the news this summer and its impact on us and on others around the world.

Students discuss the historical role of unions in the U.S. - and how a younger generation of workers is seeking to build unions that address their needs.

What we do in our classrooms during the first days and weeks of school can help us establish a caring and inclusive classroom community that will last the year. This kind of culture can sustain us and our students, even and especially in hard times.

We have three collections of community building activities, SEL Tips, games, and lessons on self-care to get your year off to a good start:

"We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu