Finding Peace Via the Maori and Lakota - A Thanksgiving Episode

Fund for Teachers - The Podcast by Carrie Caton

Episode notes

A CNN report cites that after America’s 2016 presidential election, our collective stress “metastasized into a full on cultural disorder” called American Thanksgiving Anxiety. So what are we approaching in the wake of the 2020 election AND a pandemic? Many of us are anticipating a Thanksgiving meal at a dinner table surrounded by masked and politically-polarized relatives – so there’s no better time to learn from a Fund for Teachers Fellow who pursued learning around creating communities of peace.

Today we visit with Treena Thibodeau, middle school teacher at New York City’s Chinese/English dual language

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