Critical Thinking - Values - Action
The Tikkun Project
Transforming Social Action in K-8 Classrooms
The Tikkun Project provides teachers with the resources and a framework to leverage existing curricula to address important social issues in ways that reflect the experiences of their schools, neighbourhoods, and broader communities.
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What is the Tikkun Project?
Tikkun Project Curriculum consists of 9 units that have been developed and piloted at The Leo Baeck Day School for grades K-8. Each of these units is anchored in Ontario curriculum expectations and are designed to be adapted and enhanced through collaboration with a broader group of educators and community partners in each school community.
The goal of the Tikkun Project is to share the curriculum and methodology that has been developed and tested at The Leo Baeck Day School. We hope that other schools, secular, faith-based, public or private will use these resources to empower students to make positive changes in their communities through a deep understanding of the concepts they learn in class.
Transforming Social Action
in The Classroom
While the social principles at the core of the Tikkun Project are shared widely by educators, students and communities across
Ontario, we believe that the authentic learning needs to be rooted in the unique concerns, experiences and narratives of each
classroom and school community. Recognizing this, the Tikkun Project offers an educational framework and methodology
and means to be adapted by schools to reflect their student population.
The Tikkun Project turns the UN Sustainable Development Goals into educational targets that are universally accessible to
public, independent, and faith-based K-8 schools covering issues such as community wellbeing, accessibility, environmental
stewardship, homelessness, immigration, and diversity.
The Tikkun Project is to social justice education, what open-source is for the software sector; an adaptive tool that educators
can modify based on the needs of their learners and the experiences of the whole school community. The Tikkun Project
provides educators with the tools to help students investigate their own relationship to complex issues and helps to foster
a globally-minded approch to social action that is fundamental for societies striving for improved diversity, equity and inclusion.
