Topics
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Four subject areas, each on its own page. Select a topic below to go directly to its resources, or browse by your role.
TopicsWhat each section covers
Palestinian history and culture →
Books, oral history, film, folk music, and visual learning tools. Structured for social studies and history classrooms. Includes children's and YA literature, the Palestinian Oral History Archive, documentary film, and dialogue facilitation resources.
Understanding Islamophobia →
History, mechanics, and impact of anti-Muslim bias. Connects to broader patterns of discrimination in American life. Includes foundational explainers, curriculum guides, and historical context resources going back before September 11th.
September 11th and its aftermath →
Teaching the full story — the event, the civil liberties implications, the surveillance, and the American Muslim experience in the decades since. Structured for Gen Z students who have no personal memory of the event.
Classroom tools and dialogue models →
Facilitation guides, conversation frameworks, plays, interactive tools, and media for building classroom culture around hard conversations. These cut across all topics and are best used as ongoing infrastructure, not one-time lessons.
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Students
A guided three-step pathway through all four topic areas, sequenced for self-directed learning.
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Teachers
Lesson plans, curriculum frameworks, and facilitation tools organized for classroom use.
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Administrators
Incident response, staff PD, observance planning, and curriculum overview resources.
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