What Touchstones Looks Like

What Community Programs Look Like

The Six Steps of a Touchstones Lesson Plan

Step 1 – Reviewing Ground Rules

A group at UNLV engages with the Ground Rules for the first time.

Step 2 – Reading the Text

Touchstones co-founder Howard Zeiderman reads a text by Olaudah Equiano as part of the Touchstones Fellows program.

Step 3 – Individual Work

A Touchstones group at the Annapolis Senior Center responds individually to the ideas in the text before they begin collaborating with each other.

Step 4 – Small Group Work

COMING SOON

Step 5 – Whole Group Discussion

A Touchstones group at the Maryland House of Corrections engages in whole group discussion.

Step 6 – Evaluation

A Touchstones group at the Maryland House of Corrections evaluates how well the group navigated their discussion.