My students need 9 sets of a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts that offer teens opportunities to learn about building peace with each other and environment.
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's question guides much of the learning in our classroom. In our class, teens strive to learn about ways of making peace with ourselves, each other, and the environment.
Overall, we have a traditional middle school with a progressive staff that is working to transform the school into a place of community, personal growth, and academic rigor.
There are approximately 1,000 students at our middle school, and we are employing peace building and community building strategies to help students thrive during the tough times of pre-adolescence. We are striving to create a large middle school that feels like an extended family and is a safe, healthful place for students to learn about content, their peers, and themselves. Our school is a melting pot! About 40% of our students label their "race"/ethnicity as White, 40% Latino, 4% Black, 3% Asian and 2% Filipino, and 1% Native American. They are socio-economically diverse as well. Approximately two-thirds of our students are living near the poverty line and are eligible for free or reduced lunch. The students at our school are full of life and love of learning. They are eager to grow physically, intellectually and personally
My Project
The resources in this project include texts about race, gender, war, and the environment. We will use the texts to explore peace building with each other and nature. We will explore issues of race, gender, and religion. In addition, we will investigate environmental topics such as the difference between conservation and preservation. Peace education is most effective when it leads to action, and therefore, students will use these texts as springboards from which they will brainstorm ways to use what the learn to make a difference in their homes, their schools, and/or their community.
This project is designed to help teens acquire the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors to build peace.
Of all the 21st century skills, perhaps the most important is the ability for students to create sustainable relationships with each other and the environment. These texts offer students opportunities to build background and create peace.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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