Maddy Wegner is an educator and communications specialist with extensive experience in service-learning, youth engagement, communications, and human and child rights education. She has served in multiple roles with the National Youth Leadership Council, including Director of Content and Engagement and Director of Communications. Her work has included developing resources for service-learning practitioners, integrating human and child rights frameworks into educational practice, and creating educational materials inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She also serves on the Executive Committee for Minneapolis’ Child Friendly Cities Initiative and has been recognized for her contributions to service-learning.
Engage your students on issues of racial justice and human rights with this new educator resource collection.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration…
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The Human Rights Educators USA (HRE USA) is a collaborative network to learn, teach, organize, advocate, and innovate for human rights education in the United States.
Cher Weixia Chen (George Mason University), Felisa Tibbitts (Utrecht University) and Jonathan Liljeblad (Australian National University) will present their new, edited book that explores human rights teaching and research across 13 disciplines and professional studies areas.
To focus attention on Central America during Latinx Heritage Month, Teaching for Change has hosted Teach Central America Week the first week of October each year since 2019. Learn how you can participate in the week of action in your classroom and your community and read about past years on our website.
How do we stay in relationship with people we disagree with, without abandoning what we believe? When a conversation turns hard, many of us feel we have only two choices: keep the peace by staying quiet, or keep our convictions by walking away. This online workshop offers a third path. Drawing on the Wassmuth Powerful Practices and the work of two artists, participants will explore how deep listening and genuine curiosity can help us stay present in difficult moments while staying true to our values.
