Please read Teaching While the World is On Fire ​by Lisa Delpit

Additionally, please select one article, one podcast and one film from the lists below 

Listen:

• Voices of Our Village: Responding to Anxiety in Kids
• Dr Lisa Damour: Helping Kids Manage Anxiety and Loss (scroll down to April 20)
• NPR: How Schools Can Help Kids Heal After a Year of 'Crisis and Uncertainty'

Watch:

• Trauma-Informed SEL (webinar)
• ​Social-Emotional Learning Center: Content for 6-12

Read:

• "10 Things About Childhood Trauma Every Teacher Needs to Know"
• "The Science of Resilience" 
• "No More Easy Button: A Suggested Approach to Post-Pandemic Teaching"​​

For a list of Fessenden's staff and faculty summer reads for the past five years, click here.

​In order to support local black-owned businesses, we encourage our faculty and staff to purchase their reading from Frugal Bookstore in Roxbury, MA 

•  other Selected Black-Owned Bookstores to Support