Lessons for Life
Persona Dolls
Given their strong tendency to internalize, young children are extremely vulnerable to bias and stereotypes. And that vulnerability can turn into bias-based attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that last a lifetime. With the assistance of our early childhood curriculum, teachers can address potential issues before they become lasting problems.
The Persona Doll curriculum:
- Supports the growth of social-emotional skills in young children
- Provides positive representations, reinforcing healthy identity development and respect across differences
- Effectively develops children’s innate empathy skills
- Help facilitate age-appropriate conversations around race, gender, ability and neurodiversity, class, family structures, and more.
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Elementary
The AmazeWorks Elementary Curriculum empowers teachers and children to co-create classrooms of equity and belonging where children feel valued, respected, and connected by engaging in intentional, regular discussions about identity, differences, and bias.
Grounded in anti-bias education theory, this research-based curriculum promotes healthy identity development and the exploration of differences.
The PreK – 5 curriculum:
- Fosters social-emotional learning through the lens of anti-bias education.
- Is literature-based and includes 20 high-quality trade books per grade level, written from authentic voice whenever possible.
- Includes two printed curriculum guides with lesson plans for each book with discussion questions, journal prompts, and follow-up activities.
- Covers a wide range of identities, family structures, and lived experiences, including race/ethnicity, immigration, religion, class, disability and neurodiversity, gay/lesbian family members, gender diversity, family structures (divorce/blended, adoption), incarceration, death, and deployment.
- Includes a Scope and Sequence and literacy alignment.
- Is aligned with SEL Core Competencies.
- Can be used in small and large group settings.
Middle School
The AmazeWorks Middle School Curriculum offers a supplemental video and discussion-based curriculum, designed to help educators navigate important conversations with students about identity, difference, and bias.
The Middle School Curriculum:
- Engages middle school students to consider:
- Who do I want to be in this world?
- How do I want to be in this world?
- How do I want others to see me?
- Fosters students’ social-emotional skills through the lens of anti-bias education.
- Includes lesson plans for each video with discussion questions, journal prompts, and optional follow-up activities.
- Embeds and combines anti-bias education and culturally responsive teaching.
- Organized into modules on a variety of identities and themes, including racial/ethnic identity and racial bias, LGBTQ+ identities, ability and neurodiversity, immigration/migration, and religion/faith
- Can be used in an advisory, homeroom, or classroom setting.
- Accessed through a subscription-based online portal.
