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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

by hreusaMay 5, 2021

EVENT DETAILS:
When: Monday, May 10, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm ET
Where: Virtual Webinar
Cost: FREE

Presenters: Clint Smith and Cierra Kaler-Jones

Description:
Clint Smith is a poet, staff writer at The Atlantic, and teaches writing and literature in the D.C. Central Detention Facility. Smith, in conversation with Cierra Kaler-Jones, will talk about his new book, How the Word Is Passed, an examination of how monuments and landmarks represent — and misrepresent — the central role of slavery in U.S. history and its legacy today.

This event is part of the ongoing series, ” Teach the Black Freedom Struggle,” from the Zinn Education Project.

Decolonial human rights education: Changing the terms and content of conversations on human rights

by hreusaMay 4, 2021April 22, 2021

EVENT DETAILS:
When: Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Time: 11:30 – 12:30 ET
Where: Virtual Webinar
Cost: FREE

Presenter: Anne Becker and Cornelia Roux, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Description:
Who is included in the ‘Human’ of human rights education? This webinar draws on data from the research project Human rights literacy: Quest for meaning, led by Cornelia Roux and on a paper by Anne Becker to be published in HRER Volume 4(2). The presenters invite us to reflect on the terms and content of human rights education, and to consider what a decolonial HRE might look like. They will consider the terms of our conversations and reflect on principles, assumptions and rules of knowing. These terms and HRE content are interrelated and sustained by continual movement between them. Decoloniality resists global coloniality of power, ontologies and epistemologies which are consequences of colonisation. The session will examine the Eurocentric assumptions and principles which frequently serve as premise for human rights and human rights education, arguing that researchers and educators need to explore pluriversal knowledges of human rights and problematising the Human of human rights. They will conclude with some thoughts on decolonising human rights education. Anne Becker’s paper can be read here.

Today! Meet the new Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona

by hreusaApril 21, 2021April 21, 2021

EVENT DETAILS:
When: Wednesday, April 21
Time: 6:00 pm ET
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE

Description:
You are invited to join NEA President Becky Pringle for an exclusive conversation with the new secretary of education, Dr. Miguel Cardona. They will discuss Secretary Cardona’s experience in public schools, his vision for student opportunity and learning, and the Biden-Harris Administration’s priorities for our public schools and institutions of higher learning. Secretary Cardona will also answer questions directly from educators, parents, and community members. You can submit a question when you register.

Human Rights Watch Student Task Force – Job Announcement

by hreusaApril 21, 2021April 21, 2021

The Human rights Watch Student Task Force is hiring a Liaison for their L.A. office. They seek a highly qualified Liaison to create digital human rights education programming and toolkits in support of the Student Task Force’s annual advocacy/activism campaigns. The Liaison will also develop and implement plans to reach a growing constituency of students and teachers, with special attention to under-served students in Los Angeles-area schools with inadequate resources for human rights education. This is an opportunity to help expand HRW’s human rights education advocacy efforts and mobilize the next generation of human rights advocates on the most pressing human rights issues of the day.

Application Deadline: May 7, 2021

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Congratulations to our 2021 Edmonds Summer Fellows

by hreusaApril 20, 2021April 20, 2021Leave a comment

HRE USA is excited to announce our 2021 Edmonds Summer Fellows:

Ashleigh Deno is a senior preparing for graduation from Murray State University in May with a Bachelor’s in Secondary History Education. She is currently student teaching at Murray High School in Murray, KY. Ashleigh will be working on developing HRE USA’s online media strategy.

Winnie Ho is a Program Coordinator for the National Resource Center for Academic Detailing (NaRCAD) in Boston, MA. Winnie will be working on landscape mapping, organizational outreach, and relationship-building with HRE USA partners.

Danielle Lucksted is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Sociology at Stony Brook University, NY, and has an M.A. in Human Rights from University College London and an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. Danielle will be working with HRE USA to develop a virtual Training of Trainers for human rights educators.

>> Learn more about the 2021 Edmonds Summer Fellows

Gender and Racial Justice through a Human Rights Lens

by hreusaApril 19, 2021April 30, 2021

EVENT DETAILS:
When: Friday, April 23, 2021
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 Pacific
Where: Virtual Webinar
Cost: FREE

Description:
The International & Multicultural Education (IME) Department at the University of San Francisco invites you to join “Gender and Racial Justice through a Human Rights Lens: A Dialogue with Loretta Ross & Dawn Wooten.” The discussion will be moderated by IME Professors Dr. Emma Fuentes & Dr. Monisha Bajaj, and students from the IME Department. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Loretta J. Ross is an activist, public intellectual, and scholar, and currently is a Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College. She is the author of multiple books, including Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (with Rickie Solinger, 2017) and Calling In the Calling Out Culture: Detoxing Our Movement due out in 2021.
Dawn Wooten has risked her life and career to make sure that women’s human rights are not being abused or violated. As the ICE whistleblower, she brought attention to the conditions and procedures at a privately owned Detention Facility in Georgia in 2020. She is a mother currently pursuing her nursing degree.

This event is presented by the University of San Francisco, International & Multicultural Education Department and sponsored by HRE USA

Summer Institute – Climate Change Education

by hreusaApril 15, 2021March 28, 2021Leave a comment

EVENT DETAILS:
When: July 28-30, 2021
Where: Virtual
Cost: $250
Scholarships available

Description:
Join Climate Generation for a virtual conference on climate change education with educators from across the country! Gain the skills, tools, and resources to teach climate change in all subject areas. This three-day Institute is structured to allow time for learning and national networking on the first and last days. Educators will attend a regional cohort workshop facilitated by a regional cohort leader on the second day to focus on place-based climate change education and the need for ongoing support throughout the year. This small group of 20-50 educators will explore local impacts, actionable solutions, connections to local experts, and planning and networking. All aspects of the Institute will be held virtually.

Brief – Human Rights Education: What Works?

by hreusaApril 14, 2021March 28, 2021

Human rights education is increasingly acknowledged as an essential part of building a human rights culture. But does it work? This brief by the Danish Institute for Human Rights reviews existing literature on human rights education for children, presenting an overview of findings on the outcomes of human rights education.

The studies include academic articles, book chapters and evaluation reports from the period 2000-2020. Methods for measuring human rights education outcomes include quantitative surveys; qualitative interviews, focus groups; observations; and document collection. The studies vary from small-scale ethnographic studies involving a few dozen people to large-scale surveys including 100,000 respondents.

White Supremacy in Education

by hreusaApril 12, 2021March 28, 2021

We know white supremacy is woven into the fabric of American culture and society. It’s also woven into our education system. The Spring 2021 issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine, traces some of the threads of white supremacy through classrooms and schools—and how students, educators, and others are working to break those threads.

Read this issue for stories about how white supremacy appears in curricula and policies, even in teacher training programs. Learn how educators and students are working to dismantle it in their communities.

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Seizing Freedom Podcast

by hreusaApril 8, 2021March 28, 2021

Ending slavery in America required so much more than official declarations and battlefield victories.

Freedom gets built up over time—through a billion tiny, everyday acts. It’s there in the chance to enlist and fight for a cause. It’s there in the effort to reunite families torn apart by the cruelty of slave trading. It’s there in the right to learn to read or found a church or decide how you want to make a living. And it’s there in the insistence on the legal recognition of the right to do all these things.

That’s the freedom you’ll hear about on this podcast, and you’ll hear about it directly from the people who seized it. All of the stories on this show are drawn from archives of voices from American history that have been muted time and time again.

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