STAT Curriculum Bulletin | March 2020
The STAT Curriculum Bulletin offers monthly STAT updates and provides sample lessons for you to try in your school and classrooms. The Bulletin also provides you with an opportunity to share your lessons with this community and offer feedback on the lessons you try.
Analyzing Historical Issues with PLAN
Mary Beth Tinker was a junior in high school when she and a group of friends decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. The school board got wind of the protest and passed a preemptive band. When Mary Beth arrived at school, she was asked to remove the armband and was then suspended. In this sample lesson, students use the PLAN framework to consider some alternative solutions.
Helping Students Get Along Better and Communicate Respectfully and Empathically via Social Studies Instruction
We are currently living in an age where the internet and social media facilitate polarized communities and a decrease in dialogue. Now, perhaps more than ever, our students need ways to speak to one another about important matters and get along better with one another so they can work together to solve problems and make the world a better place.
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Celebrate SEL Day!
Join the SEL movement. Find out how you can celebrate SEL Day on March 27, 2020.