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Courageous Conversations for PBS Learning Media

This collection of six lessons is designed especially for middle-school and high school students! 

Use the power of dialogue and discussion in these lesson plans created with support from Ocean State Media and PBS Learning Media.  This empirically-validated curriculum has been shown to increase knowledge and listening skills while activating intellectual curiosity and promoting respect for diverse points of view. 

Alexandre Le Voci Sayad is a journalist, educator, and author. He holds a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and Ethics from PUC-SP (Brazil) and a specialization in digital business from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently pursuing a PhD in lifelong learning policies and AI at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain.

Joe Rubin is a graduate student in the