Making Space for Difficult Discussions
08 January 2021
After the violence at the U.S. Capitol, educators, caregivers, and students across the country are navigating a tangled web of emotions, perhaps wondering how the nation can move forward.
To help students and school communities make sense of complex feelings and understand the context of the events, members of the Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty — including Refugee REACH’s Sarah Dryden-Peterson — offer guidance and resources to structure and support the conversation around the insurrection, its causes, and its potential fallout.
“As in other conflict settings, young people seek to connect their experiences of current crises to history that can help to explain how we got where we are and to tools and supports that can prepare them to be build futures centered on justice.”
This piece originally featured on HGSE’s Usable Knowledge Forum. Click here to read the full article.
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