1. Read, review and engage with the lesson
2. Consider doing a personal connection challenge yourself
3. Send communication to parents and administrators
4. Prepare materials
5. Lead the lesson with your students
6. Reflect on lesson and follow up with students as needed
2. Consider doing a personal connection challenge yourself
3. Send communication to parents and administrators
4. Prepare materials
5. Lead the lesson with your students
6. Reflect on lesson and follow up with students as needed
Classroom Slides
connection challenge
get ready to connect:
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LESSON PLAN & Discussion Guide
Students will connect with others based on their common interests and activities.
Connection Notes
Interest & ACTIVITY Connections
PREP checklist:
- Teaching Slides
- Empathy Lesson Video: Mac & Hailey's Story
- Connection Notes, print one for each student
- Connection Challenge: Name Tags, one for each student
- Monthly Assessment
04. empathy lesson
Mac & Hailey Potts
We are Mac and Hailey Potts! We both grew up as musicians and music connected us. We ended up getting married and now we both do music full time. Mac is a blind recording artist and Hailey is a music teacher. We started a family with two kids (and one on the way), but we still love to connect with each other and others through music!
story Themes:
Physical disability, fitting in, interests and hobbies
