What's your comfort food?

School districts carry a heavy burden to provide support to students and their families. When pressed for funding and resources, districts tend to favor extracurricular support in mathematics and hard sciences while extracurricular support for the humanities is eliminated. In our complex modern world, students need skills in the hard sciences, but not at the expense of the skills developed through the humanities.

What's your comfort food?​ is a free, educational toolkit developed for use in libraries, schools, and museums designed. Targeting young adults from 6th-8th grade, the topic of comfort foods is used as a gateway for deeper discussions to help young adults develop empathy and navigate interactions with different perspectives and lived experiences than their own. Developed in accordance with Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, the toolkit can also be easily integrated into curriculum, suggestions on how to do this are included in the toolkit.

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