How Trump's Election Shaped Our Curriculum

Our faculty member Michael Fisher just published an article on the website of the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley. He describes how Trump's election tested our abilities for compassion and ultimately led us to some of the most powerful emergent curriculum of our first year:

How One School is Teaching Empathy After the Election
By Michael Fisher

I teach at the Millennium School, a new independent middle school located in the heart of San Francisco. Mindfulness and compassion are essential parts of our curriculum.

Yet on November 9th—the day after the presidential election—the sixth-grade classroom I walked into was anything but calm or kind. 
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