For Educators

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as understanding the process of civic dialogue and its relationship to setting public policy and role of day laborers in the economy of U.S. towns and cities.

Students will have the opportunity to consider the challenges and ethics of reporting from a war zone and gain skills they can use to analyze and evaluate media information.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as how police brutality, illustrates systemic problems related to policing and what some are doing to bring about reforms.

The aim of this lesson plan, based on the POV film Thirst, is to look at water privatization as both a local and global issue affecting all of us and to explore the impacts of water privatization on our local communities.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as how zoning policies affect neighborhoods, examine the tensions between private property rights and public interests and learn about the role of housing policy in municipal politics.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as knowledge about what it is like to be a soldier and practice conducting an oral history interview.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as Cuba and Cuba/U.S. relations and the experience of immigrants to the U.S.

Teachers can use this lesson plan to explore the contributing factors to racism in America. Students examine the legacy of white privilege and the unspoken ways in which it touches their lives, using 26 scenarios from daily life.

This lesson plan associated with Escuela helps train teachers to be sensitive to the needs and concerns of students who migrate with their families.

Students will conduct a debate on a related topic raised in the documentary Escuela. Extension activities include research projects or a letter-writing campaign. There is also a film guide for teachers who want to facilitate discussion after watching Escuela with their students.