Dialogue

Building Emotional Intelligence: Darwin Reconsidered

With a consensus emerging around the capacity of heightened emotional intelligence to positively influence personal, social and intellectual development, this document depicts how to integrate social and emotional learning into the practical ways we live our lives, teach children and create safe spaces.

Tips for educators

How to be a positive role model for students.

Keep it Real (Media Literacy Manual)

Keep It Real is a manual for teachers and students who want to bring issues of Hip Hop, commodification and gender into the classroom.

National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation / Engagement Streams Framework

This valuable resource helps people decide which dialogue and deliberation method(s) are most appropriate for their circumstances and resources.

The New Girls' Movement: Implications for Youth Programs Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women

Capacity building for youth led social change is programmed through the Ms. Foundation for Women. As Americas’ first national, multi-issue women’s fund, the Ms. Foundation directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge projects that nurture girls' leadership skills, protect the health and safety of women, and provide low-income women with the tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. CFYS is a program which supports organizations working at the intersection of positive youth development, youth-led social change and gender-conscious programming.

 

The first round of the collaborative fund, called the Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women, demonstrated that girls, given the proper support and structure, can and want to be social change agents and contribute positively to their wider communities.

Tools for Organizers, Activitst, Educators and other Hell Raisers

An awesome compilation of links for community organizing. Well explained and easy to read and follow, with topics including protests and demonstrations, media activism, event planning, tabling, and anti-oppression.

University of the Streets Café

Resources on conversation and dialogue.

 

Fire it Up! A Toolkit for Youth Action

Youth Action Network, 2002.