Plus, teaching about the COP26 climate summit Morningside Center NEWSLETTER Dear Morningside Center friends, Below, we share new lessons and good stuff to read - and invite you to a webinar tomorrow. Enjoy! Also: Morningside Center is looking for a Senior Director of Operations and Finance. See all the details of this job opening - and please share! Living Legacy Project: Speaking Truth Webinar Series Join Morningside Center's Daniel Coles and Dionne Grayman for the 2nd webinar in the Living Legacy Project's Speaking Truth series, Thursday October 21st at 8pm! Featured Lesson A Halloween Circle on Fear This classroom activity uses Halloween as a taking off point for students to share their experiences of being fearful, explore how fear is a normal part of life, and share ways we can handle our fear. The activity is structured as a circle, but can be adapted for other formats. New on TeachableMoment Climate Emergency: COP26 & Youth Activism As a pivotal global summit on climate approaches, young people are making their voices heard. In this activity, students discuss COP26 and urgent youth-led demands for action. Latinx? Hispanic? Exploring Identity through Art Students experience how a range of Latinx illustrators touch on language, identity, and self-expression through their comics – including an exploration of the meaning and significance of terms such as Latinx, Hispanic, Latino, and Latina. Resources for Teaching on Indigenous History & Culture Native American Heritage Month (November) is an opportunity to learn about Indigenous peoples' history, culture, and perspectives. See our collected resources, and watch for more to come. What We're Reading & Listening To Know your rights, teach the truth In this podcast, National Education Association general counsel Alice O'Brien discusses Critical Race Theory and what new restrictions born out of CRT panic mean for educators. New York reaches long-sought settlement over school funding. "New York will add $4 billion in school aid for its nearly 700 school districts over the next three years in a settlement with education advocates over a lawsuit that started seven year ago." By Joseph Spector at Democrat & Chronicle Why High School SEL Programs Feel ‘Lame'—and How to Fix Them "The big problem, researchers and practitioners say, is that too much of what constitutes SEL learning feels patronizing to teenagers and fails to address their core psychological needs and motivations." By Stephen Sawchuk at Edweek 99% drop in suspensions in first half of last year as most NYC students learned from home "The pandemic upended student learning last year, but nearly eliminated one source of disruption: suspensions." By Alex Zimmerman at Chalkbeat “You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other.” – Audre Lorde 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 | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected]