Teaching Human Rights in the New School Year

We are excited to share resources for educators going back to their classrooms. All of these materials are free and downloadable at woventeaching.org.


 Defending Democracy: Lessons for Building Resilience and Taking Action Based on the framework of Professor Timothy Snyder’s New York Times book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, the lessons of Defending Democracy highlight ways that young people can take action to protect democracy and fight authoritarianism. Highlights of Defending Democracy:An emphasis on critical thinking, media literacy, and collaboration, and community buildingHighly accessible, practical, and action-orientedAdaptable and created for either high- or low-technology environmentsGlobal and US-based examples, as well as historical and contemporary case studies. Download Defending Democracy

Human Rights Education Implementation Toolkit Responding to recent threats and uncertainty about the future of democratic institutions and non-profits in the U.S. and globally, Woven Teaching is currently focusing on the dissemination and implementation of our human rights education materials across a wide network of educators.We believe strongly that community power and education are the best tools available to promote and protect human rights. Because of this, we have created a Human Rights Education Implementation Toolkit. The goal of this is to be able to quickly provide schools and organizations with the resources, tools, and support needed to implement Woven Teaching’s resources–curricula, trainings, and other materials–in order to meet the needs of their communities. Toolkit

Free Printed Materials We are now offering printed copies of our materials free-of-charge to educators in the United States! To request lessons and curricula, please complete this order form.

For more information about other Woven Teaching materials and resources, please visit woventeaching.org/resources

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