 It's three o'clock, so I think we are ready to go. I had to pause and wait a moment because I have a clock here that has bird sounds when it turns the hour, so I didn't want you all to hear that. But it's really nice to have everybody on the call today. Thank you for joining us and welcome to our very first virtual coffee talk for teachers where we are going to review and discuss why it feels critical in the midst of a pandemic and the virtual resources that USIP has to help you and your students. So I am Megan Chabalowski and I'm a program officer here at the US Institute of Peace where I lead our work on the public education team with American K-12 schools. And I'm Ann Louise Colgan. I'm the director of public education at the US Institute of Peace. At USIP, the public education program is really like the national outreach program. It includes our work with K-12 schools. And also our work with broader public audiences across the country. It is great to have such a diverse group of participants here today. Some folks we know through previous work together and some new contacts. And I believe we are joined by four of our peace teachers. The peace teachers program is a year long professional development opportunity through which USIP works closely with a set of educators who introduce our resources into their curriculum. And we're really happy to have you with us, Sarah and Jill, excuse me, and Emily and Matt. And we're really glad to have all of you join us. We all at USIP deeply appreciate your work as educators at all times, but especially now during this pandemic. And we're looking forward to this session. Great, before we get started, we wanna go through a few logistics. Next slide please. So to let you all know, your mics are muted. You are in listen only mode. That said, we do wanna hear from you. So for those who are not familiar with Zoom, if you hover your mouse over the bottom of your Zoom screen, you'll see a couple of different options. There is a Q and A box. This is where you can ask questions. There is an up-foot function. So you can see other people's questions and thumbs up someone else's question if it's of interest to you as well. There is also a chat box. So there will be a couple of times when we ask you to comment in the chat box. So please use that for any comments you might have. Please also use the chat box if you're having any tech difficulties and our team will try to support you as best as we can. Finally, we are recording this. It may be made available on our website. So I just wanted everyone to be aware of that. To give us all a sense of where everyone's tuning in from because I know this is a diverse group from across the country. I'd love for us to test our use of the chat box right away. And if you could post in there where you're tuning in from, I think it would be great to see where everyone is at the moment. And they're coming in. Fantastic. This is great. Wow. What a wonderful opportunity to get to talk to everybody at the same time. This is great. Well, thank you all for joining us from across the country. I'm going to turn it over to Ann Louise now for folks who don't know USIP or us very well to tell you a little bit more about the Institute and about the public education team. Thanks, Megan. I think it's always good to start with a few words about USIP to provide some context and some grounding. We're actually marking our 35th anniversary this year. So we've been around for a while. And I imagine most of you are at least a little bit familiar with us, but we thought we'd cover some of the basics up front. The United States Institute of Peace was established by Congress in 1984 as a national nonpartisan independent institute dedicated to preventing and resolving international conflicts through nonviolent means. We were created after two decades of work inside and outside of Congress. Inside of Congress, this was a bipartisan effort that was led by veterans of World War II who felt that this country needed a national institution to prepare us to wage peace as effectively as our military academies prepare us for war. And then outside of Congress, it was a grassroots effort across the country which mobilized tens of thousands of people who then spurred on that congressional action. We were created to be a resource for the American people and the government and we work every day very hard to build peace in practical ways and to help make peace possible. Today I'm coming to you from my basement in Washington, D.C. But in normal times, we're based at USIP's headquarters at the northwest corner of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. We have a striking building and it's intended to be a symbol of this country's commitment to peace and it serves as the hub for the peace building work that we do around the world. And then this map shows us the scope of that work and helps, I think, to bring it to life in terms of its global geography. In terms of our approach of USIP, we essentially do three things. We think, we act, and we educate. We are a leading resource with deep expertise. We are also working on the ground in conflict zones, working with people and with communities on the front lines dealing with violent conflict and then supporting their efforts to build peace in practical ways in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, Tunisia and Columbia. And then we provide education and training to make those efforts most effective, working with women, with youth, with faith leaders, with police and the military and others in these places. And then complimenting that work to build peace internationally, USIP also serves the American people directly as a core part of our original founding mandate from Congress. We work with schools and universities and organizations across the United States to share USIP's work and resources, to show how conflicts can be resolved without violence and how peace building is happening and is making a difference and why it matters to all of us. We know that violent conflicts dominate international headlines and we are deeply committed to the finding ways to flip that script and shine the light on examples of peace building in action. And we are committed to finding opportunities for the American people to get engaged in that work with us. We have a long history of work with educators and with students. And now that we are all challenged by this switch to the virtual world, we are in this with you and we are figuring out the best ways to continue to be a resource in this new environment where a lot of the themes on which we work seem very resonant. Megan is our team lead who are working with schools across the country. So I'll now pass it back to you, Megan, to take us through the beginning part of this agenda. Great, thank you, Emily. So last week, we at USIP marked Teacher Appreciation Week and one of the things we did was create a special video highlighting the qualities that peace builders and teachers have in common and beginning to talk a little bit about why it feels so vital to teach about peace during the pandemic. So we wanted to continue the conversation because some themes really arose from this process. And these are themes that really, that we find resonate with a lot of the teachers we work with. So we are going to dig a little more deeply into some of those themes in this webinar. That said, I do wanna point out that we know that circumstances very widely across the country and that they vary across school districts right now and that everyone's experiences are completely different. So the resources we're gonna talk about today are really to give you a sense of what we have to offer and how you can begin to integrate this content into your teaching and distance learning and then when we're back in the classroom. And they're meant to be really flexible and adaptable so that you can take them and use them whatever your context. So we have no expectations that everyone will be able to or want to use everything we talk about, but we hope at least we're gonna spark some ideas and that you will know by the end of this that we're here as a resource for you and you can think of no, you'll know ways to follow up with us. So let's begin by exploring the first theme, the first reason why we feel it is so vital to teach about peace during the pandemic. Next slide please. The next one. May I actually let's go back to that one. I'm sorry, I should have said next slide. Thanks. For those who would like to see the video that I just talked about, this is a link to it and you can find it on our website as well. So I encourage you to go and watch it. It features a number of our wonderful teachers and so I'd love for you to go check it out. Next slide please. So the first theme, the first reason is that it gives students hope and provides them with positive stories and examples. So we've been hearing from teachers that students are especially worried about the state, the current state and the future of our world. So one of the ways we hope we can help is by providing them with practical examples of positive actions that people are taking. So USIP has launched a new campaign called peace in pandemics, hashtag peace in pandemics, which includes inspirational stories of on the ground peace building, of nonviolent activism and of community leadership during the pandemic. You can find them all on social media using this hashtag and also on our website. I wanted to share one in particular with you that really stood out to me because of the role that youth have played in it. And it's this photo here on the left. It is from Tunisia where we have been doing work for several years. In late March, youth from marginalized communities in the city of Medinina deliver about $1,000 worth of hand sanitizers and masks to the National Guard. So this is a symbolic gesture of trust and cooperation. It's actually really rare in Tunisia between the security forces and between citizens because there still exists a great tension between the government and citizens following the uprising. And in fact, months ago, this act of goodwill would have been very unlikely. So what's different is that USIP and local Tunisian leaders led a mediation effort between youth and police in these communities. And it led to increased compassion and solidarity from both sides, something that the youth have reported on. And a member of the National Guard had since said, and I love this quote, we are optimistic about getting through this period, seeing young people being creative in the response gives me hope. And this is an unusual act for them to see and is something that I think is a great story and a great message, both about the role that youth can play in making a difference, but also a story from a place where maybe we hear more of negative headlines. So this is an example of the kinds of stories you'll see in peace and pandemics. So I hope you will check that out and consider using some of those stories with your students. You can also find more stories on USIP's website that are more broadly about peace builders. So these include our Olive Branch blog post in videos on USIP's YouTube page and in our on peace podcast. So these are all permanent resources to you even once the pandemic is over. One of the things we talk about when we talk about why it's so important to share real stories of real people is that it has the additional benefit of building empathy. It can create these bonds by drawing out what people have in common and help connect what's happening globally with what's happening locally. So it's important to be sharing these real stories of real peace builders. So then the next theme if we could move to the next slide, it provides students with important knowledge about the current situation. So we want you to think of USIP as a reliable source of information for you and your students on current events. This information can help broaden your students' perspectives and their understanding of today's global conflicts and challenges, and it can lead to creative problem solving. So USIP has a new series, hashtag COVID and conflict which gather stories of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting fragile states and conflict zones which is a really important storyline right now. And it includes short videos of USIP experts discussing the impact of the pandemic on specific countries or on peace building approaches. The latest videos are on the Horn of Africa, on Iraq, on Afghanistan, and on nonviolent action and people movements. And they're quite short and they're quite engaging. And to prepare these videos, USIP collects questions over social media for the experts. So these are really crowd sourced and you and your students can contribute questions right now for a video on Burma as you can see on this slide. So you just submit them on Twitter using hashtag COVID and conflict. USIP experts are also available to speak directly to your students. We can do that sort of virtual programming even from our basements. And you can request a virtual speaker by emailing Megan after this session and our contact information will be shared at the end. Great, next slide please. All right, teaching about peace building also gives students concrete skills they need to navigate this new normal. So many of the skills that are necessary for everyday peace building are also necessary in this extraordinary moment. These include the skills you see here on this slide. So critical thinking, conflict analysis, collaboration, communication skills like active listening, mediation, negotiation to name just a few. We can teach students to assert their opinion while being respectful and open to the idea of others to listen with care and attentiveness and to act responsibly when faced with conflict. So USIP offers educators free lessons and activities to help your students develop these skills. One that is very popular is our peace building toolkit for educators. It's a set of lesson plans that's very adaptable and flexible. It comes in a middle school and a high school version. But for the elementary school teachers on here we've also taken some of the key lessons from the middle school toolkit and adapted them for upper elementary. So you can find those on the link on this slide. And we also have online learning opportunities like some micro courses. These are free, three hour long self-paced courses that introduce students to the foundational topics in international conflict management and peace building. So they're great for older students, for high school students and for teachers who just wanna expand your own knowledge of this field and this topic and content. And I should mention that as we move on to the next slide some of those micro courses may be supplemented in the near future by some other free offerings that are a little bit more in-depth exploration of some of the core skills and concepts in our work. So we can keep you posted on that too. The next theme is that teaching about peace during this pandemic reminds students that even when a crisis feels overwhelming we all have the power to make a difference. Peace building stories and examples remind students that even in countries and communities that are facing the greatest levels of challenge and a violent conflict there are individuals working to make things better. This is something that gets lost sometimes but it's really a core element of our work to draw out and highlight and bring to life those real life examples. And we like to share this graphic with teachers. It's called the despair empowerment curve. It's by educator Sheldon Berman. And he poses that when we learn about a problem we enter with a certain level of knowledge. And then as we learn more about the many challenges associated with this problem we begin to dip down into despair. This may be where many of us and your students end up after watching the news but we don't want to leave students in despair. Instead we want to help them find ways to address their feelings, to help them gain a complete picture of the problem to teach them strategies and skills and provide them with the opportunity to do something about it so that they then begin to rise up out of the curve and towards empowerment. We'd like to encourage students at this time to think about what they can do to build peace during this pandemic that they still do have agency. And so we want to put out a call to your students to contribute to the hashtag peace and pandemics campaign that Megan already mentioned. Students can submit their own stories on social media using the hashtag. They can post their own action or message for peace or they can share someone else's action or like one that's already on there that really inspired them or appeals to them. So this is the hashtag to use to contribute to that larger USIP campaign. All right, great. So next slide please. All right, we've talked at you a bit and we'd like to pause now to hear from you. So we've posed some of the reasons we think teaching about peace is vital during the pandemic and themes that we've heard from magic caters. But we'd like to hear from the teachers among us now. So I'm actually gonna invite two of our peace teachers Emily and Matt to switch over to video and we'll get you set up for that so that you can maybe share a bit and reflect on any of the themes that we've talked about or anything else that has struck you with the group. In the meantime, while we're getting them set up, we're gonna put up a poll and I'd ask for you to respond to this poll as we begin, as we get our two teachers on video here. And I will point out I'm not sure that everybody is either using it. Make sure it please if it's asking you to put in the chat box while you selected those themes. I'd love for everyone to be able to see. So I believe you have two options of who you were sharing your chat with. Please make sure that you've selected all panelists and attendees as you share in the chat box so that everyone can see your thoughts. I'd like for this to be something we all can do together. I believe that's an option for everybody. Hi, Emily and Matt, we're gonna turn to you on a second. All right, we almost have everybody in. All right. Why don't we shrink the poll and I'm going to turn it over to our teachers and please feel free to keep typing into the chat box as we're hearing from Emily and Matt. So Emily, maybe I could start with you and turn it over. If you don't mind introducing yourself. Great, thank you, Megan. Thank you, Ann Louise. Can everyone hear me? I guess, okay. Hi, my name is Emily Philpott and I'm a teacher in Jackson, Mississippi and I am one of USIP's peace teachers this year. And really just want to echo what's been said about the value of USIP and the resources they provide for teachers and educators during this time. And especially, well, I feel like it's important to teach about peace building at any time, but especially now, as students are more isolated than ever before in their lives, I think it's even more valuable for us to teach about the world, to include multiple perspectives and to help foster and build empathy. And Megan highlighted and Ann Louise highlighted some of the resources, but I thought I would quickly share some that have been really valuable to me as a teacher in these last few weeks. As many of us have navigated this landscape of virtual learning. And so one of the first things I want to say is how fabulous the micro courses are that USIP has created. And my students have really enjoyed using them and they are built around case studies and include perspectives from experts in the field. And they have a variety of topics, everything from media and arts for peace to religion and peace building to conflict analysis. And if you, like me, have been trying to find really meaningful and engaging resources for students as they learn and work from home, these are built for you and they are fantastic. And so that's one thing that has been really valuable to me. The second is the, and this was mentioned the current news stories that are put out. And these have been fabulous for virtual discussions that I've had with my students. And I'll give you two quick examples for my world history students. I had them read an article that was posted by USIP about the impact and the effects on refugee communities around the world and that the special and interesting and horrible ways actually that COVID-19 is impacting those communities. And it really prompted some great discussion amongst my students. I also teach psychology. And believe it or not, there's a lot of things that are applicable to that course as well. And so just this week, they read an article that was put out by USIP entitled, can we make peace with coronavirus? Environmental peace building offers an approach to mobilizing conflicting parties against COVID. And that worked really nicely with studies and research. My psychology students have been doing about the power of superordinate goals and working together with others who are usually your enemies or those you don't get along with because you have to solve a larger problem. And again, that was a resource ready to go with information that I could count on to be accurate and was easily able to share with my students. So if you do not yet follow USIP on things like Facebook or Twitter, I really encourage you to do that as well as to check out their resources on the website. And I just wanna say thank you to USIP for helping me become a breader teacher and for allowing my students, even when they're isolated in their house to really connect to things that are happening around the world. Thank you, Emily. Those are excellent examples. It's so nice to hear how you have used them in your classroom or your virtual classroom, I guess. Thank you. Matt, I'm gonna turn to you, but I wanna remind people about the Q&A feature. And so if you've got questions, please feel free to put them in there. And we're gonna be turning to some questions if we have any. Otherwise, we also are gonna reflect on some of the things we just heard about. Matt, take it away. If you'll introduce yourself too first. Sure, I'm a high school teacher in Carboro, North Carolina. And I wanna echo a lot of what Emily said. This is a really challenging time for a lot of students without giving away any information about any particular students. I've had two students whose families have split up over the last two months. I've had students who are working five days a week in construction to help their families pay bills. And one of the things I hear from students over and over is that the work they're doing in a lot of their classes feels pretty empty. It feels like they're just kind of turning in worksheets and it feels very abstract and it feels very disconnected from their new lives. So for me, I think one of the great things about teaching about peace right now, especially as pertains to the coronaviruses, it's one of the few things you can do that might feel very relevant to a student. So I think that's really worthwhile. Another opportunity I think that comes out of this moment is to think about who can be a peacemaker. And it's really tempting to think about the Dr. King's and the Gandhi's of the world are peacemakers. But more than ever, I think in my student's lifetime, it's clear that other people are peacemakers too. Scientists are peacemakers. Politicians are peacemakers. Lawyers are peacemakers. Hopefully students and teachers feel empowered to be peacemakers. I can't speak for Emily or the other teachers here, but I know that I certainly feel like when I'm giving the students a fuller picture of what's going on in the world today, I'm hopefully giving them some tools that'll help them feel a little bit less helpless when they kind of interpret what's going on in the world. They can kind of analyze how did this start and then how might it end. So for me, I guess, the last point I wanted to make, sorry, was that I also think this presents us with an opportunity to say to students, what do you wanna learn? And so within a class of 30 students, you might have 15 students who wanna focus on the US, but you might have 15 who wanna study other places. I was talking with a student earlier today and she has family in El Salvador. And she was saying her family's okay because they live in the rural parts of El Salvador, but people who live in the cities have a much different experience. And again, that's the sort of thing that as teachers, we can facilitate. We can help students attack like, what is it like in San Salvador? Why is it so different than the rural parts? So for me, this is a really tough time to be a teacher, but it's also a very promising time to be a teacher. And it reminds me that the work that we do can really give students hope, even under tough circumstances. Thank you, Matt. Thanks for sharing with us some ways you've used it, but also ending on this note of hope. It's a tough time for everybody, but especially for young people. And so anything we can do to be helping make their lives easier is what we wanna focus on. So I'm seeing some very interesting comments in the chat and I'm gonna turn it over to Ann Louise who's been keeping an eye on them to maybe share what she's been seeing. It was wonderful to see Emily and Matt. Thank you both for sharing your reflections and for being here today. I'm seeing a lot of resonance around some of the themes that you've just raised. And so Matt, the point that you just made about trying to find things that are relevant to students, something that is really meaningful is a point that Dave from Virginia also raised in his comment. And I think some of the work that Megan mentioned earlier, the work that USIP is doing with youth in conflict zones can really help to make this even more relevant. And our generation change fellows have been really active during this time, have been focused on efforts to build resiliency in their own communities and to really work on the ground in places that are dealing with this in a very difficult way. And I think that's another way those youth stories of peace builders can really help to make this seem more relevant to youth here in this country. And then this idea of how being a peace builder doesn't have to mean taking on the big huge issues and being a Nobel or it takes little steps from all of us every day. And that's something that Barb had raised in Pennsylvania. And also Michael in Idaho, this idea that we need to shine a light on the people who are doing this work, who are working hard in their communities to make a difference every day. There are lots and lots of heroes out there and many of them are unsung and unseen. And if we can elevate their stories and help people say that they too can start to make these changes, then that's how we can all build peace in our everyday lives. So those are some of the comments that I saw and wanted to connect back to what Emily and Matt had been talking about. Yeah, and I also want to thank Emily and Matt and all of our peace teachers for doing this work. I can be, we appreciate you, we appreciate all the teachers but we appreciate the time and energy you put into teaching your students about peace and for joining us for conversations like this so that we can hear from your learning. It's something that maybe we always talk about when you're a peace teacher that first year is the learning year and it's something that there's a learning curve. And so it's so great to hear from people who've been through that learning curve because you've got some great ideas and insights for the rest of us. So thank you for everything you've been doing as well. I wanted to raise one thought that something, an idea that I've heard from teachers who've been doing this with their students virtually that has been really nice and resonates and covers some of these things we've been hearing about, which is the idea of doing peace building or peace builder projects. And I raise it also because I'm gonna do a shout out for Ann Louise who was interviewed by the son of one of our colleagues as a peace builder. And it was really cool because his entire class had video interviews where they interviewed somebody that they consider to be a peacemaker. And what's great is that everything has to be done over tech now anyway. So these folks could be located anywhere. And then they shared their story in a video and we were able to watch all the kids' videos of everybody that they think is a peacemaker. And I think what you see is that they actually are everyday people. And it's the really nice way to change that conversation. And we have in our toolkit and on our website some lesson plans you can use and some other project planning materials if that's something that you wanna do with your students to have them be identifying people who are doing really great work in this moment who maybe aren't known as peace builders every day but who they think are peace builders or peacemakers. And have them interview them and then put it out there and tag it as for the peace and pandemics campaign. We really want this to be a global campaign not just about coming from USIP but it would be really great if it were something that were to take off and share all of these positive actions. So there's some really cool ways to be integrating this into what you're doing. And we hope that this has given you a sense of it. I'm gonna do a quick check. It looks like we've been so clear that there are no questions, which I think is great. Unless anybody has, I'm gonna give you a chance to ask a final question in the Q and A and I don't think we missed any in the chat. So this is the last call here for any questions you might have about teaching about this or about the US Institute of Peace if there's something on your mind that you'd like to hear more about. And if I may, while folks are putting together their very last nugget of wisdom or their last question, I just wanted to go back to the chat comment that Nico had posted. I think one of the things that's so important about teaching peace in general but perhaps more than ever right now is teaching peace as something practical. Peace is something that can be a bit of a loaded term and people can sort of think of it as being a little bit hard to get your head around, a little bit abstract. It's eminently practical and I think this idea of teaching skills and strategies that make it real is really important and it goes back to that idea of relevance. It's something Nico and I talked about in his school in Alabama when I was there a year ago and it's something that I know many of us have talked about over time as well. And so making it real and practical and action oriented at this time I think is part of what is the power behind teaching peace right now. Okay, great. Well, let's chat about, oh, of course and now I see a question, let's see. My first question, connection. Great, fantastic. Great question. Oh, there's a couple that have come in, great. So one is about how we might have what are some opportunities for future talks with USAP like done through Dreamwakers, a great partner to us. They're a great resource for folks. We hope you would book them up. They connect classrooms with experts with their idea that you can't be what you can't see. Right, did I get that right, Ann Louise? So they're a really cool program but you can also email me and I'd love to get you set up to have a conversation with a USAP colleague or an expert or if it works out, we could find somebody hopefully from the field to get you and your students connected with folks doing this work. So my information will be at the end but there are also lots of great partners who have these kinds of connections as well and we hope you'll continue using them and I'm proud to say that we still do a lot of work with Dreamwakers and so there will be some more cool stuff there too. Summer programming opportunities, good question. So that's something that we're planning right now along with everyone else. We've been pivoting over the last month or two to think about what does the summer look like and we've got some things that are coming up that we're planning and in fact, this is a pretty good segue, I believe, to our next, let me make sure that I'm not skipping anything here but I think this is a good segue to our next poll question if I could ask Yusuf to pull that up. So speaking of some summer opportunities, great. I would love to hear who would be interested in more webinars on this content? We're looking into what we're gonna be doing for the summer and one of the things we're considering is more webinars. This has been focused on the pandemic but there are lots of other kinds of webinars that we can have focused on countries, focused on topics, focused on particular dates that are coming up or issues. So I'd love to see if this is something that's of interest to people and if so, please put into the chat and feel free to share it with everybody. What are some of the topics that you would be most interested in hearing more about and whatever, either something we've touched upon already today or something that we haven't touched on that you'd like to hear more about and then that'll give us a sense of how we want to do some of our planning for the summer for additional opportunities. And Louise, do you wanna jump in and is there anything that you'd like to share about either of these two? No, I think we're eager to hear from you all and I mean, we're here to be a resource where we're gonna review in a moment what are some of the other virtual opportunities that exist with us and what are the ways you can get more plugged in. So we're just eager to hear what is of greatest interest and relevance to you all. Great, thank you. All right, if you could go to the next slide, please and we'll talk about ways to stay engaged and I think we'll go ahead and close the poll, please. Awesome, all right. So there are a number of resources that we have available to you in ways that we'd love to continue working with you. So first up are everything that we talk, is that everything that we've discussed is on our website so you can find them on the public education section of the USIP website, including this list of USIP's virtual resources for teachers and students, which is the image you see here. We actually pulled together everything that we thought would be most useful to you in this moment of distance learning and that is available on our website. So hopefully taking all of the guesswork out of where to go to find things. You also can stay on top of what USIP is doing and hear about some of these peace builders and peace building projects by tuning into webcasts and podcasts put out by USIP. We've switched over to virtual programming so while we can't have public events in person, we can do them online. So we're doing more and more of them and I think we have four coming up or if they're planning for four coming up so we're gonna be doing more and more I think as we go. So that's a great resource as well. And then please sign up for our newsletter if you're not already signed up for it. It's how we let people know about new opportunities that are coming up in new resources. Many of you probably already are signed up which is how you heard about this. But maybe you don't remember you receive it so this is your chance to look back for it. I certainly don't remember all the newsletters I received. So now I'm prompting you to go back and dig out this newsletter. So one of those opportunities that I'd love to share with you now if we can go to the next slide please is our peace trail in the National Mall. So some of you will be very familiar with this. This is something we launched several years ago. The peace trail on the National Mall is a self-guided walking tour that brings a peace lens to the experience of visiting this country's most famous Veterans Memorials and other sites on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It elevates the stories of key figures, institutions and moments in history that demonstrate America's commitment to peace. You can go to the next slide please. So you can see here a map of the peace trail and all of the monuments and memorials and sites that it hits. What's really cool that I'd love to announce is that we actually are about to launch two new ways to virtually engage and take the peace trail. One is a virtual presentation by a public education staffer, a member of our team who serves as your tour guide to walk you through the monuments and memorials and lead discussions around some of the stops on the peace trail and a self-guided virtual reality tour using Google Tour Builder. So that will be something that you could send out and your students could do on their own and it's a pretty cool thing. So stay tuned for additional information on both of these. And we include this because taking your students on the peace trail might remind them that our country has emerged from very difficult times before and that we will do so again. So next slide, please. Man Louise. Yeah, and before I say a word of wrap up, I want to thank Barbara for nudging in the chat box and reminding all of us that a big opportunity that's coming up relatively soon is the International Day of Peace on September 21st and USIP's Peace Day Challenge. I think many of you know this already but for those of you who don't, this will be our sixth year of the Peace Day Challenge which is USIP's big broad campaign each year to turn the International Day of Peace into a day of action. And we provide terrific resources for schools and we work with schools all across the country and we work with folks all around the world each year on the Peace Day Challenge. And so we are turning our heads now to thinking about what that will look like for this year. And so we will absolutely have resources for you and we would love to have you all engaged with us again. We don't know what it's gonna look like but we will be ready for every contingency. And so please stay tuned and we will be able to be a good resource for you on that as we plan ahead. So on behalf of all of us at USIP, I really wanna thank you all for attending today. We knew this would be useful and I think it really has been. It's been great to see Emily and Matt and to have you all with us. And we really wanna thank you all very sincerely for all that you are doing right now for your students and for your communities in the middle of this pandemic. We really appreciate you. We are here for you. We look forward to working with you. And so really hope that you will follow up and that we can continue to work together and find new ways to do so. Yes, I'd also just like to thank everyone for joining and Matt and Emily for popping on to provide your reflections, which were very useful. Do you wanna follow up with either Anne-Louise or me? After this, our contact information is on the slide. I will be sending around the PowerPoint to participants so you will have all of these links at your disposal. And please do stay in touch with us. Please email me if you wanna explore anything in further detail. We are here to support you. We're very friendly. We'll come up with some creative plans and ideas together. And please don't forget to take the very, very, very short survey that's gonna pop up right after this to let us know how you think this went. Thank you again for joining and please we hope all of you take care of yourselves and we'll see you again soon. Thank you all.