Resources for Educators

Check out our free curricula.

The Voices curriculum is about honoring the stories, poetry, and arts of people of different ages and from an international perspective. Browse through thousands of thematic pages that speak directly to peoples' experience of "raising their voices," surviving wars and revolutions and working to bring about peace through compassionate action.

Education Packets

Several times each year we publish education packets based on new themes.

Themes provide background information, maps, historical data, poetry, arts and other writings, including annotated bibliographies, and teaching and learning suggestions.

Most themes also offer links to films, lectures and other media offerings.

Voices of Resistance

The material presented in these pages is meant to challenge us to understand and appreciate American history from vantage points to which many of us have not been privileged.

Its intent is to challenge readers to examine their knowledge and assumptions about the history of a certain time and place; to become critical of their knowledge base and to begin to confront the ways we are all affected and influenced by our understandings.

Furthermore, it is meant to help us realize how present economic, social and cultural realities of the lives of all Americans, the dominant and disenfranchised, are intimately connected to the events described.

Voices in Wartime

Voices in Wartime is a documentary film and anthology that assemble the voices of witnesses to war in order to aid in creating a culture of peace.

View the experience of war through powerful images and the words of poets, soldiers, journalists, historians and experts on combat from around the world. The film supports the impulse to find alternatives to war.

Syllabi and Course Bank

Exemplar college, middle school and secondary syllabi that have been taught on a variety of subjects and have a "proven track record." The "Bank" also includes samples of work from these same courses and examples of workshops offered by the Voices staff.

See what educators are experimenting with in their classrooms and the kinds of service projects students are initiating in working with others.