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Celebrate National Poetry Month With Maya Angelou
This week, the power of words is illustrated in two celebrations: the beginning of National Poetry Month and Maya Angelou's birthday. Angelou's life, words and activism offer a unique opportunity to show students how writing is shaped by identity and experience, and the power words can bring. These resources can help you make that introduction and inspire the poets, thinkers and activists in your school—so their words, too, can sing.
- Celebrate Maya Angelou
- Caged Bird
- Choices
What We’re Reading This Week: March 29, 2019
Supporting Students From Immigrant Families
After recent news and photographs from El Paso—of asylum-seeking families held in chain-link, barbed-wire pens—your immigrant students may be feeling afraid, and you may feel unsure how to support them. These resources recommend steps you can take inside and outside your classroom to address injustice and insist on the human dignity of all people, no matter where they're born.
- Call to Action: All Children Deserve to Be Free
- This Is Not a Drill
- Toolkit for "Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff"
Teaching Active Kindness With a Little Spy Work
Hate at School: February 2019
Land of Freedom: Civil Rights Movement in East Alabama
Teaching First-Graders About Microaggressions: The Small Moments Add Up
When Students Are in Crisis
One year after March for Our Lives, we still mourn the young people lost to gun violence and to the trauma that is its legacy. If you're concerned that your school isn't equipped to support students in crisis, the resources in this edition of The Moment suggest ways to change that—starting today.
- SMS SOS
- Toolkit for "Demystifying the Mind"
- Worried About a Friend? Use Your E.D.G.E.