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Suggested pacing and order for Can We Talk? exercises

70+ Children's Books, from C70

This list of children's books teaches different themes of civic engagement.

Story Core

This exercise is designed to help people do a fair-minded, useful assessment of how well a system or an organization is working.

E Pluribus Unum?

Our country faces significant challenges; some of them are caused by our polarized politics. How do we honor our differences instead of using them to divide us?

How to Be an Active Listener

To introduce the students to the idea and component steps of active listening and give them practice applying those skills.

Unit 1: Laying the Foundation

E Pluribus Unum?: Can we still be 'out of many, one.'

Ground Rules for Listening - Can We Talk? Style

To help student acquire a deeper understanding of the ground rules: why they are necessary, why they are useful, and how to use them.

American Values: What are they?

To help students discover the breadth and variety of values that Americans hold dear. Then, to help them notice and discuss how sometimes those values can come into tension, not necessarily as a matter of good vs. evil, but more as a matter of competing goods.