Dear Morningside Center Friends,

Below you'll find more activities to start the year, our 9/11 anniversary teaching guide, and more!

Also, we are launching a workshop series for educators, families, and anyone else interested in our work. Below you'll find information on the first four workshops, and you can register today!

In case you missed it, we have a virtual workshop for school leaders coming up on September 30th - you can still register for Being & Building in Community: A Workshop for School Leaders.

Fall Workshop Series

Morningside Center is growing our support to educational, CBO, after-school and care-taking communities across the nation! We have seen incredible demand over the past year for meaningful, relevant workshops that share knowledge, build skills, provide warm support and grow heart-centered community. 

With that in mind, we are launching a workshop series this fall to give everyone a chance to join us for a little Morningside magic during four 90-minute workshops! You can purchase tickets for each one individually, or all four at a 30% discount.

Registration links are below, please share them with anyone you think would be interested!

• Exploring the Range of Emotions (10/8)
• Understanding the Adolescent Brain (10/15)
• Introduction to Culturally Affirming Social and Emotional Learning (10/22)
• Meeting The Moment: Making Space for Difficult Conversations (10/29) 
• Fall Four Workshop Series (Wednesdays, 10/8-10/29) A series of four 90-minute workshops exploring emotions, the adolescent brain, culturally affirming SEL, and meeting this moment! Attend all four workshops at a 30% discount!

If you would like to join but the dates and times don't necessarily work for you, please fill out this survey to help us schedule future workshops.

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9/11 Anniversary Teaching Guide (Updated)

How should educators acknowledge the anniversary of September 11th and educate students about the events of that day and their impact? 

Who Are You?: Building Relationships through Self-Exploration

Who are you? You may be asking yourself this when looking at all of the new faces in your classroom at the beginning of the school year. You may also be asking: How can we, as a classroom community, encourage each other to answer this question authentically, peeling away the many layers that comprise who we are? 

Creating a Kind Classroom: A Lesson to Start the New School Year

Students think about how to create a kind, caring classroom using an interactive poem and a drawing activity. 

What We're Reading

Projects, Purpose, and the Teenage Mind

"Watching her seventh graders wrestle with challenging material, in fact, had made her curious: At that critical age, she wondered, what is the spark that ignites deeper learning? What causes an often-defiant teenager—or indeed, a whole class of them—to bring their considerable passions to bear on academic explorations of history, language, or mathematics?" By Stephen Merrill at Edutopia

“You [Morningside] didn’t just lead a workshop, you created a sanctuary. A room where our parents didn’t just learn, they felt. They felt seen. They felt heard. They felt safe.” 

— Parent Coordinator