Educational Values in Teaching

Educational Values in Teaching is an online resource built by FreshCognate featuring content created by civic educators in response to America's politically charged climate. Developed in collaboration with Meira Levinson from Harvard Graduate School of Education, the site offers free tools to help K–12 educators lead with integrity, navigate uncertainty, and build inclusive classrooms. The educational content emerged from a three-day create-a-thon at HGSE that brought together EdEthics, the Democratic Knowledge Project, Project Zero, and dozens of teachers nationwide, supported by the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative.

The website features four modules. The first module enables educators to explore their values, or principles that are important in one's life and professional practice; this work acts as a foundation for the other three modules. Visitors engage in exercises that helps a person define their own values, in the process strengthening their sense of purpose and building confidence.

Once an educator has reflected on their own values, the other three modules are designed to help visitors learn how to navigate risk, prepare for challenging conversations with other adults, and execute those conversations in learning spaces with the aid of student-facing resources.