About TeachKind
Welcome to TeachKind, the humane-education division of PETA! Our mission is to help schools bring animal rights and compassion into the classroom. We work with hundreds of teachers and school staff across the country to help them incorporate humane education into their lesson plans, start animal-rights clubs, replace animal dissection with humane alternatives, get healthy vegan options in their cafeterias, and more.
We provide schools with free educational materials and even host classroom presentations on many different animal rights issues. Whether you want to get your entire school district to ban field trips to the circus or just want some information on teaching kids about vegan eating, TeachKind is here to answer your questions and provide free resources so that you can make a difference for animals.
We know that educators have the power to plant seeds that can grow into a passion for helping others, so we want to make humane education easy. We hope that with TeachKind, you’ll find what you need to bring animal rights into your school!
Meet Nina Kahn, Our TeachKind Coordinator
Hello! I’m Nina Kahn, PETA’s TeachKind coordinator. I work out of PETA’s Oakland, California, office. Since graduating from the University of California–Berkeley with a degree in English literature, I’ve spent most of my time working for something very important to me: animal rights. Although I’ve always been interested in helping animals, I wasn’t inspired to go vegan and learn more about animal rights until I read excerpts from Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation in a philosophy class—so I know firsthand the power possessed by each educator to inspire students to make positive changes! Here at TeachKind, I help write online content and lesson plans, visit schools to do classroom presentations, and correspond every day with teachers who want to make a difference for animals. I’m constantly inspired by our TeachKind teachers, who have the courage, passion, and dedication that it takes to bring animal rights into their classrooms. And I look forward to helping many more educators present lessons of compassion to their students.
