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.
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Celebrate Maya Angelou
Caged Bird
Choices
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.
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Call to Action: All Children Deserve to Be Free
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This Is Not a Drill
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Toolkit for "Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff"
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.
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SMS SOS
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Toolkit for "Demystifying the Mind"
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Worried About a Friend? Use Your E.D.G.E.
Supporting Student Action for Social Justice
Recent headlines point to all kinds of student action, from tackling climate change to advocating for more equitable schools. But those of us who work with students know they're doing what young people have always done: leading the way toward necessary change. In this edition of The Moment, we offer resources to help you support your students when they stand up against injustice, fight for equity and take the lead in shaping a better future for all of us.
![Students marching together holding a Black Lives Matter sign](/sites/default/files/styles/article_thumbnail_s_m_l_xl/public/2019-03/Student-Activism-in-Durham.jpg?itok=w7JeHn5M)
Existence Is Resistance: Supporting Student-led Social Change
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Dear Future Leader
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Latinx Leaders Tomorrow
Responding to the New Zealand Mosque Shootings
After today's horrific shooting at two mosques in New Zealand, use this time to embrace and listen to your Muslim students—and to encourage all students to speak up against anti-Muslim bias. These resources in this edition of The Moment can help you do it.
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Finding Resolve After the New Zealand Mosque Shootings
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Expelling Islamophobia
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