The Human Rights Education Now! podcast is now live! This podcast serves as a platform for leaders in the human rights education (HRE) field to share their stories, practices, resources, reflections, and other foundational knowledge about their involvement in HRE in the U.S. For this month, we have two episodes featuring Nancy Flowers. You can listen to the episodes on HRE USA website and our personalized Buzzsprout podcast website. Stay tuned for two more episodes which we will release in April!
Tune in to listen to conversations about:
The development and evolution of HRE
Allies and efforts in the HRE field
Contextualizing the local within a global
Transnational solidarity building
Challenging mainstream narratives as pathways for HRE
and much more!
We look forward to sharing this space with you. In an effort to increase accessibility, we are working to make transcripts available in the future.
We want to hear from you. Your comments are welcome. Follow @human_rights_educators_usa or email us at info@hreusa.org
Launching on March 1, 2023—HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION NOW!, a new podcast from Human Rights Educators USA featuring conversations with scholars, activists, teachers, and others involved in the worldwide movement to advance human rights learning. This monthly podcast seeks to raise the level of awareness and understanding about human rights education in the USA, while promoting its inclusion as a central element in K-university.
Each podcast will be available on our website, Spotify, YouTube, Soundcloud, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download each episode as an MP3 file.
Protecting Democracy through Civic Learning & Human Rights Education
Educator Voices on the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
Date: March 8, 2023 Time: 3pm PT/6pm ET – 4pm PT/7pm ET
This webinar features educators from across the United States who are successfully integrating human rights education (HRE) into the civic learning experiences of students at diverse grade levels. They will share their experiences of using HRE concepts and instructional practices to help students connect with the skills, values and practices that are essential for participants in an inclusive, democratic society. Strategies for engaging youth participation and fostering youth leadership are a particular theme of the webinar.
What is human rights education and how does it support the understanding and practice of democratic civic values and behaviors?
How can HRE be effectively integrated into an overall program of civic education at all grade levels?
What are some strategies for engaging youth participation and fostering youth leadership in building a human rights supportive civil society?
The presenters and facilitator will share resources for putting HRE/democratic infused civics lessons into their programs with attenders. The webinar will be presented via Zoom and will be recorded so it can be shared with those who sign up for the webinar. There will be an opportunity for attendees to dialogue with the panel.
This presentation is part of Human Rights Educators USA’s year of Human Rights, honoring the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the theme Protecting Democracy, Promoting Human Rights.
Panelists
Rosemary Blanchard, founding member of Human Rights Educators USA (hreusa.org) and the Human Rights Education Community of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
Sandy Sohcot, founding director of The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program (TWAICB)
Natalia Anciso, visual artist and educator in Oakland, CA
Jessica Terbrueggen, international education specialist with over fifteen years of experience working globally with diverse populations in the United States, China, Ecuador, and South Korea at the intersection of human rights and the literary arts
John Terry, Supervisor of Social Studies for the Bernards Township School District in Basking Ridge, N.
This guide aims to assist efforts to achieve the necessary balance between a state’s official language or languages, and its obligations to use or respect the language preferences of linguistic minorities. Protection and promotion of language rights can also help to preserve the world’s linguistic diversity.
“We are going back to that beautiful history and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements.”–Carter G. Woodson(Founder of Black History Month)
We hope that this month you feel held, you are celebrating and you find joy! History is alive all the time, all around us. This month in particular provides so many doors to open, through which we discover and reflect upon our experiences and knowledge. At the same time, we know that African American history is being hotly contested and muddled into a divisive issue. This month, let us resist this erasure and wrap our arms around each other and all the things we have yet to learn and to teach. Let us fill the corners of our social media and our conversations with our learnings and yearnings for liberation. Watch the ritual film “between starshine and clay” by Lead to Life produced with community members across California who have been impacted by policy brutality and gun violence. Sign up for a Black History Month festival virtual event held by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). You can also read ASALH’s compelling statement of Florida’s rejection of the AP African American History course. Plus, check out the plethora of reading hosted by the School for Black Feminist Politics. Need some activities for your workplace to talk about anti-Blackness? Check out this Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Democratic Workplaces toolkit from AORTA. You can also watch this excellent primer on the history of race with historical case studies: Challenging Anti-Blackness for Collective Liberation. Read through the Movement for Black Lives’ visionary policy platform for critical info on areas for policy and action. Find Black owned businesses here. Or check out:Celebrate black history month by supporting these Black-owned businessesWe Back Black Businesses13 ways to support Black-owned businesses and organizations
We join so many others in demanding, again, an end to police violence and the systems that sustain white supremacy, as well as increased investment in public education and social services.
For educators looking for support on these issues, VOW recommends Zinn Education Project’s materials on the history of policing and Learning for Justice’s resources for facilitating learning about systemic racism.
Additionally, the Black Lives Matter At School Week of Action begins on Monday and is an opportunity to examine curricula and policies in order to promote equity and center Black voices and joy in classrooms across the country. Take Action
Parents and caregivers are children’s first teachers and play a powerful role in determining what children learn about history and in shaping children’s perspectives and our shared future. Discussing the history of slavery in age-appropriate ways can help children understand how that history influences life today.
To connect with the arrival of The 1619 Project series on Hulu this Black History Month, this new Learning for Justice article compiles a list of recommendations for talking about slavery and race with children. The guide also provides age-appropriate information to emphasize in conversations, as well as related LFJ resources.
Feb 15, 2023 05:00 PM, Eastern Time (US and Canada)
In honor of Black History Month we are presenting a special event, Letters from Anne and Martin. This two-person show highlights the parallels between Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
This virtual event is offered in partnership with The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights, Anne Frank Center USA, Mark Schonwetter Holocaust Education Foundation, and the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center.
Join the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) as we welcome Ben Garcia, the Executive Director of the American LGBTQ+ Museum, to discuss the Museum’s scheduled 2024 opening, its mission and programming, and how you can be involved.
The webinar is on Thursday, February 23rd at 11:00 am (EST-NY). It is free and open to the public. To register, click here.
The conversation is part of ICSC’s Webinar Short series which features 30-minute sessions on the latest developments in the world of Sites of Conscience and their allies.
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