Engaging with current events is an essential part of educating young people to be informed and humane participants in a democracy.
Use our current events resources – including Teaching Ideas on specific topics and adaptable strategies – to foster thoughtful classroom conversations and build your students’ capacities for critical thinking, emotional engagement, ethical reflection, and civic agency.
- Empathy
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- History
- Civic Education
- After School and Beyond
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Teen Engagement
- Family Engagement
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Peninsula Temple Beth El (PTBE), San Mateo, CA. Families in small groups with similar age kids begin learning together, move into separate groups for parallel study and then come back together for a family activity followed by participation in Shabbat worship.
A seven-episode narrative podcast telling the story of Holocaust survivor Hana Dubova
A guide on initial class discussions from Facing History and Ourselves.