15 Stories & Lessons to Foster Empathy in the Classroom
Collection Notes
These stories and lessons will expose students to people around the world, encouraging them to think from their point of view.

These photos document the lives of the sightless and visually impaired in New York.

Baltazar Ushca is the last ice merchant to harvest glacial ice from Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo.

A Salvadoran immigrant strives to build a future for her family in America after fleeing the Salvadoran Civil War as a teenager.

High school teacher Jeffrey Wright explains the laws of physics, but his own story teaches students the meaning of life.

Meet two survivors of the Iran-Iraq war who meet again years later under remarkable circumstances.

Multi-generational residents living within a public-housing neighborhood in downtown Seattle grapple with the forces of gentrification.

These photographs depict refugees as they cross borders on their way to northern Europe.

A 16-year-old Alaskan Native leaves his tiny village to compete in a basketball tournament hundreds of miles across frozen tundra.

This story documents life in Stratford, a small farming town in California’s Central Valley which suffers from a drought impacting the residents’ daily lives.

These photos portray the town of Flint and its residents as they persevere through the water crisis in 2014.

Meet a young Syrian refugee who was granted asylum in Canada after fleeing torture and imprisonment by the Assad regime.

This story documents a Syrian teenager who comes of age in Canada after losing his mother and four siblings in a bombing that left him injured.

This short film documents the impact of sand dredging on Cambodia's mangrove forests and the lives of the people who depend on them for survival.