Penguin Random House Education, The Louis Zamperini Foundation and Resilient Educator launch “Unbroken: A Victory for Hope”, a ground-breaking national teacher development program and The Unbroken Curriculum™, to help build resilience, hope and courage as the nation prepares to go back to school.
Launching with a live Webinar, a free online toolkit and an innovative teacher professional learning platform, The Unbroken Curriculum™ helps students face challenging times through the development of empathy, resilience and social-emotional learning
(July 27, 2020) -- Penguin Random House Education in partnership with The Louis Zamperini Foundation and Resilient Educator, announces the launch of “Unbroken: A Victory for Hope,” a curriculum and resilience initiative for teachers and their classrooms across the country.
In response to the overwhelming challenges faced by America’s teachers as they prepare for a back to school like no other, and the 55 million students managing heightened levels of stress, trauma and anxiety, this bold new initiative brings together the powerful story of the best-selling book “Unbroken” with an immersive webinar, toolkit and an innovative online professional learning program designed to help teachers foster the resilience, hope and social emotional self-discovery children need as they face a series of existing and novel learning obstacles.
Based on the young adult adaptation of New York Times best-selling book “Unbroken”, The Unbroken Curriculum™ developed by Heather Fuller and The Louis Zamperini Foundation creates a unique and powerful way to open the hearts of students, connecting their own personal stories to the heroic journey of Louis Zamperini. Now this unique curriculum has been converted into a digital online experience that can reach every teacher in America through an online professional learning platform.
“The immersive study of stories that reflect students’ personal experiences, that focus on success and hope, is key to cultivating resilience in youth. The ‘Unbroken’ story and The Unbroken Curriculum™ provide a social-emotional learning tool that enables teachers to make authentic connections with students, meeting kids where they are emotionally,” says Michael Gentile, VP of Sales and Marketing for Penguin Random House Education.
This “Unbroken Resilience Initiative” will launch with a live webinar for teachers on July 29th featuring Heather Fuller, the teacher-entrepreneur responsible for developing The Unbroken Curriculum™. This webinar will provide the tools and guidance necessary for creating a critical classroom culture of oracy, linking it to the heroic story of Louis Zamperini and, most importantly, fostering an open space for social-emotional discovery and dialogue.
Building upon the proven techniques in The Unbroken Curriculum™, teachers will learn how to conduct exercises that encourage students' to share and reflect on their individual stories of resilience through a challenging time. Teachers will also learn how to manage this instruction for online, physical and hybrid classrooms. In conjunction with the webinar, participants will receive a ready-to-use toolkit with downloadable exercises and passages from the book, and free access to an additional 3 hour online mastery teacher development program to help deliver these valuable techniques in the classroom.
“We are bringing together the power of one of the most inspiring and hopeful stories of resilience and courage, a tested and tried curriculum to build resilience in kids and the power of innovative online learning technology to allow this to reach millions of teachers,” says Luke Zamperini, President of The Louis Zamperini Foundation.
“Through The Unbroken Curriculum™, students will gain implicit instruction in understanding and applying social-emotional competencies and skills; embedded opportunities to practice these competencies and skills during instruction; and participate in a learning environment that models hope, resilience, safety, belonging and purpose so students can fully embrace learning,” says Rob Wrubel, CEO of Resilient Educator.
This curriculum will help connect social, emotional and academic dimensions of learning to drive student achievement. Following the July 29th webinar, the “Unbroken Resilience Initiative” program will provide continual updates, building a community of change agents looking to bring resilience and hope to every classroom in the country.
This summer and back to school program includes:
● Live webinar for 60-minutes on July 29th by Heather Fuller, teaching oracy and the first chapters of the “Unbroken (Young Adult Adaptation)”
● “Unbroken: A Victory for Hope” toolkit with Part 1 of the book for meaningful back to school engagement
● Free 90 minutes online micro-course guiding teachers through the social emotional learning
● Downloadable resources and tools to support
● Links to further explore The Unbroken Curriculum™
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