Haiti-centered learning, free for every classroom
Lessons, essays, educator resources, and music that teach Haiti as a sovereign contributor to the world — rigorous, educator-tested, and built to work offline.
Core principles
Your Brain Is the Boss
Every lesson puts the learner in charge of their own thinking — questions before answers, evidence before conclusions.
Haiti as sovereign contributor
Haiti is taught as a nation that gave the world ideas, art, and freedom — never as a case study in pity.
Rigorous and offline-friendly
Materials are standards-aligned, print-ready, and usable in classrooms with limited connectivity.
Educator-tested
Every lesson passes a real pilot cohort of grade 4-8 teachers before it goes live.
Materials
Showing 1–9 of 12 materials
K-12 Curriculum
An introduction to what Haiti gave the world: freedom, art, and the idea that no one is born to be owned.
- Level
- Grades 4-5
- Length
- 6 lessons · 45 min each
K-12 Curriculum
A bridge unit connecting the Haitian Revolution to the wider Atlantic world and to students' own civic lives.
- Level
- Grade 6
- Length
- 8 lessons · 45 min each
K-12 Curriculum
Primary-source work on 1791-1804: declarations, testimony, and the cost of sovereignty.
- Level
- Grades 7-8
- Length
- 10 lessons · 50 min each
K-12 Curriculum
A language-and-thinking unit on the verbs of self-determination: to know, to make, to belong — and the fourth.
- Level
- Grades 6-8
- Length
- 5 lessons · 45 min each
Adult Learning
An essay on obligation, kinship, and how a people decides what it owes itself before it owes anyone else.
- Level
- Adult
- Length
- Essay · ~35 min read
Adult Learning
A plain-language course on how machine systems decide, where they fail, and how to stay the boss of your own brain.
- Level
- Adult
- Length
- 4 modules · 60 min each
Educator Resources
The full pedagogical rationale, facilitation moves, and answers to the questions students actually ask.
- Level
- Educators
- Length
- Reference · 48 pages
Educator Resources
A self-paced PD sequence on Haiti-centered pedagogy, with reflection prompts and a facilitation rubric.
- Level
- Educators
- Length
- 3 sessions · 90 min each
Educator Resources
Pacing options, standards crosswalks, and adaptations for mixed-grade and low-connectivity classrooms.
- Level
- Educators
- Length
- Reference · per grade band
Start teaching in four steps
Quick-start guide
Two pages that get you from zero to teaching Lesson 1.
Educator community
A private channel to share what works and ask questions.
Weekly office hours
One hour each week with the DVGER team, four-week commitment.
Webinar: Haiti-Centered Pedagogy
Sixty minutes on why and how, with a live lesson demo.
Team rollout tracker
The internal 10-week, one-pass launch plan for this curriculum suite.
