Democracy, dissent and decisionmaking

Election Day is a major holiday at a school that asks each child to find and use their own voice, and that strives to model how people in a diverse community can find common ground.

Conversations on voting rights begin in Early Childhood, and extend through eighth grade, when students travel to Georgia and Alabama to meet with veterans of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and meet with activists working today to keep the election process open and accessible.

More on that trip at www.gordonschool.org/civilrights

Election lessons from this fall include:

Facing a new chapter a reflection from our Head of School

This is what it looked like Election Day lessons across the school

Using our voices in the New York Times with two eighth grade leaders

The mysteries of the electoral college in seventh grade

Disagreeing with grace in Middle School and among our adult community

Exploring debate in seventh and third grades

Democracy and activism taught alongside math and reading in Young Kindergarten and second grade

Talking to young people about the election - six tips for caregivers