On December 17th, more than 25 educators attended the second of a two-part series of workshops sponsored by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the Asian, Haitian, and Spanish BETACs, and the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies at NYU. Before being introduced to additional UNICEF print and online materials, teachers shared activities that they had conducted with their students based on the activities introduced at the first workshop in the series. At this second workshop, teachers chose one of seven global themes and worked in teams to plan lessons to develop language and content skills with ELLs. These themes were maternal and newborn health, child survival, disability awareness, gender equality, millennium development goals, armed conflict, and poverty.

Several teachers developed lesson plans on the theme of "armed conflict." These teachers decided to focus on big ideas and essential questions such as: What are the sources of armed conflict and what are the effects of armed conflict on children? By accessing children's drawings of armed conflict occurring all around them (available on the UNICEF website), teachers were able to develop activities to introduce this theme to students. Additional UNICEF videos and materials on armed conflicts in different countries would then be used for case study research to be reported by the students in class. As a follow-up activity, students would write explaining some of the sources and effects of armed conflict.

There were many other activities and resources shared by David Donaldson, Director of Education, U.S. Fund for UNICEF, Tara Broughel, Special Projects Coordinator, U.S. Fund for UNICEF, and Dr. Gail M. Slater, Resource Specialist, NYS Spanish BETAC. Teachers received information on how to form a High School UNICEF Club and how to organize a Water Walk during World Water Week in March.

One teacher communicated the following statements in her evaluation: "It's great to find materials designed to teach not only English skills, but also values. I believe that's what empowers young people.