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The Roots Guide Educational Toolkit is here!

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January 10, 2024
Are you an educator or facilitator looking for creative approaches to citizenship education-related content and teaching ideas on themes like diversity, migration, heritage, identity, belonging, and inclusion? Our new Roots Guide Educational Toolkit is designed for you!

It offers you step-by-step instructions and ready-to-use lesson plans that can be used with teens and adults alike in both formal and informal learning settings. Download our free 48-page toolkit here: https://www.ourpocketstories.org/rootsguide 
Designed by experienced educators and facilitators active in the fields of global citizenship education (GCE) and diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) in the Netherlands and around the world, the Roots Guide Educational Toolkit provides solid pedagogical structure and innovative, carefully researched content that enables introspection, sparks curiosity and inspires bravery to explore the complex political, socio-economic, and cultural situations we currently find ourselves in, and to imagine what futures we want to emerge. 
The Educational Toolkit draws on an array of creative methods and resources for large group, small-group and individual explorations to support not only cognitive learning but also socio-emotional and behavioural learning so fundamental to GCE. Like our interactive Roots Guide guidebook of the Netherlands, the educational toolkit brings you, your students and participants through four steps:

- Reflect

- Connect

- Explore

- Share

For more info on the steps above and to download our free 48-page Roots Guide Educational Toolkit go here: https://www.ourpocketstories.org/rootsguide 
Purchase your very own copy of our alternative guidebook of the Netherlands, Roots Guide Nederland (available in Dutch), here: https://rootsguide.org/shop/guidebook/?v=796834e7a283 
The Roots Guide Educational Toolkit’s creation team includes: Meghann Ormond, Ingi Mehus, Fiona Hawes, Kristina Mau Hansen, Daniel J.Wurpel, Rehab Eldalil and Hamzah Kashash.
The Roots Guide initiative is made possible by support from the National Geographic Society, Stichting Pocket Stories, Wageningen University & Research, and folks like you.
Like what you see? Then, please support us! Buy the Roots Guide guidebook for your colleagues, students, friends, and loved ones. Use and spread the word about the Educational Toolkit with people in your network. And reach out to us! We’re happy to facilitate training workshops on the use of these tools. We’re also thrilled to learn more about what great things you’re doing on these timely topics!