Plus, exploring the diversity of Lunar New Year celebrations
Morningside Center
NEWSLETTER
Dear Morningside Center friends,
In this issue, we share activities for honoring Black History Month, a new lesson on the Lunar New Year, and 11 self-care steps for educators. Plus, new readings - and an essay contest for your students. Enjoy!
We can’t be available for our children if we don’t have the energy or bandwidth ourselves. Here are 11 self-care practices for educators to have at our fingertips.
"Excluding or treating essential components of African American studies as optional is negligent education. It’s akin to teaching students about mass without gravity, about photosynthesis without the sun or about elements without particles." By Nicole Tucker-Smith at the Hechinger Report
"Parents and caregivers are children’s first teachers and play a powerful role in determining what children learn about history and in shaping children’s perspectives and our shared future. Discussing the history of slavery in age-appropriate ways can help children understand how that history influences life today." By the Learning for Justice staff
PitchIt! offers an avenue for students to get excited about engaging with current events by participating in a friendly writing competition (with prizes). The contest, hosted by the News Literacy Project, aims to empower New York students to be civically informed and engaged. It also gives educators a chance to embed news literacy concepts into their teaching.
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”