National
Know Your Classmates® Day
KYC TEACHER GUIDE
Welcome to Know Your Classmates®!
(If you haven’t already signed up, please do so here.)
The downloadable version of the Know Your Classmates Teacher’s Guide for 2022 will be available soon. We appreciate you bringing us to your school, and please read a thank you Letter from the Executive Director.
Click the KYC Lessons button below to access the individual KYC lesson plans, presentations and additional resources.
QR code brought you here? Head straight to the Student Leadership Unit to run your KYC Day!
KYC LESSONS
Tap the links below to access the individual KYC lesson plans, presentations and additional resources.
- Lesson 1: Exploring Identity (Foundations) Updated
- Lesson 2: Do I Belong?
- Lesson 3: Recognizing Bias & Embracing Differences
- Lesson 4: Living in the US
- Lesson 5: Human Connection
- Lesson 6: Diverse Expression of Gender (Updated)
- Lesson 7: Diverse Expression of Culture
- Lesson 8: Allyship and Bystander Effect
STUDENT LEADERSHIP UNIT
Lesson 9: What is “Normal”? Art Project (Teacher-led)
Our logo this year highlights the rich diversity within the disability community, and the neurodiversity in our nation’s classrooms.
Featured Curriculum: Disability Visibility
Designed by our National Teen Board members (Will, Harita, Angel, Geanette, Kailee, and Emily) to bring Disability Visibility to our classrooms, we have two lesson plans (CASEL competency aligned) and additional resources for students to bring actionable change to their schools.
Our logo this year highlights the rich diversity within the disability community, and the neurodiversity in our nation’s classrooms.
