Dear Educators and Friends,

Welcome. As you return to school, please remember that MY HERO is here to support you and your students. We provide teachers with free curated lesson plans, rich with media from our library, to use in the classroom throughout the year, on a variety of subjects and themes.

Our online storytelling platform provides students a safe place to celebrate diverse heroes, with essays, art, music and short films, and share them with our global learning community. We also provide Media Arts Education resources to help students participate, and recognize them for outstanding work.

Please feel free to share this newsletter with parents, students and teachers that you know.

Warm regards, 

The MY HERO Team

Download an interactive PDF of this collage, then click on the faces of these heroes to access their stories on MY HERO.

You and your students are invited to take part in The MY HERO Forum. Read an essay by educators Charles Harper and Coleen Bondi on, How Should We Choose a Hero? and add your thoughts and comments. This is a great starting point for exploring the theme of heroism.

Listen and Read Stories: Curated MY HERO stories

The MY HERO Teachers Room has curated lesson plans, organized by grade level, for teachers and parents of students in Pre-K through High School. Multimedia resources from our growing library are included in the lesson plans, which can be used throughout the year.

MY HERO Teacher Resources:

Early Childhood

Elementary School

Middle School

High School

College Internship Programs

Click on the image above for a lesson plan about Science Hero Katherine Johnson.

MY HERO offers timely and relevant lessons for use - daily, weekly or monthly. Click on the links below to access lesson plans with short films, art and stories curated from our media library.

AUGUST

August 19 - World Humanitarian Day  

August 23 - Intl. Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition  

August 26 - Women's Equality Day  

August 26 - Katherine Johnson's Birthday

SEPTEMBER

September - National Preparedness Month

September 15 - October 15 - Hispanic Heritage Month 

September 8 - International Literacy Day

September 8 - Grandparents Day

September 11 - Remembering the Heroes of 9/11 

September 21 - International Day of Peace

September 23 - Remembering the Little Rock Nine - Sept. 23, 1957

OCTOBER

September 15 - October 15 - Hispanic Heritage Month  

October - LGBTQ History Month

October 1 - 7 - Mental Health Awareness Week

October 4 - 10 - World Space Week

October 11 - International Day of the Girl

October 16 - World Food Day 

October 24-30 - UN Disarmament Week 

October 24 - 31 - Global Media and Information Literacy Week  

Students are encouraged to create and share their short, hero-themed films in the annual MY HERO International Film Festival. There are Special Awards, with cash prizes for students and professionals. Winning films are shared, online, with MY HERO's global learning community. Students submit films for free.

Check out MY HERO's Media Arts Resources to help students make short films.

Filmmaking Guides:

Elementary

Middle School

High School

MY HERO offers Contests throughout the year to promote creative self-expression and to honor everyday heroes. Share your vision with our Global Learning Community!

The MY HERO Project's Visualize Heroism Art Contest offers students and professional artists an invitation to showcase their work that celebrates the best of humanity.

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