Veronica Garza offers a framework, tools, and activities for students to be both critical consumers and producers of media.

English, Social Studies, Grade Level: 3-12

Anthropologist Andrés Olán-Vázquez explores how superhero comics offer a way of telling new stories about social change.

Interdisciplinary, Grades 9-12

How can we use other people’s imagination to travel the world? How can we tell the story of our city? In this activity, students will explore these two questions. 

Grade Level: 5-12

Explore the personal essay as a form and learn different approaches and techniques for generating essay ideas, drafting, writing and revising.

Grade Level: 10-12

A resource with questions to help teachers cultivate trauma-informed classrooms.

Teacher Planning, Grade level: k-12

Afrofuturism artist-scholar S.R. Toliver shows how Black artists use Afrofuturism to honor the history of Black people, define the present and imagine a better future.

Grade level: 6-12

An oral/written interview for students to learn about their family or community.

Grade level: 3-12

A rationale for using the Story Exchange as a teaching approach in your classroom.

Teacher Planning, Grade level: k-12

In this activity, students will explore an important memory or their desired legacy through a spoken word performance. 

Grade Level: 5-12 

The writer Ibtisam Azem explains why she writes – to preserve the memory of a place and all the people who lived there.

English, Grade level: 9-12

Students use first-person analysis to share their opinion on an art form that matters to them.

English, Grade level: 7-12