Category: Events

December 3, 2025
5:00-6:00 pm CT
Zoom

Climate change is a big topic, and is affecting many species in Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is especially vulnerable to climate change as it lies in the Boreal Forest, our northernmost ecosystem, full of iconic Minnesota species such as the moose. In this workshop, we’ll explore a new resource from Friends of the Boundary Waters where students engage in an interactive investigation to understand the relationship between moose and climate change. We’ll spend some time exploring the resource, provide resources for how to implement it in your classroom, and give strategies for how to increase inquiry based investigations in your classroom!

Please sign up to receive a copy of our free online resources here: https://www.friends-bwca.org/outdoor-education/classroom-materials/

This workshop is a part of the Midwest Climate Collaborative’s Educator Community of Practice that showcases relevant topics that offer pathways to teach, talk, and lead on climate change in the Midwest. This speaker is based in the Midwest and the workshop highlights topics of interest identified by Midwest educators, but is open and applicable to many communities!

We understand that some of these workshops do not work for educator’s schedules, so all registrants will receive a recording and additional resources to their e-mail within 1 week of the event. We are striving to make our events more welcoming to all, with specific goals about racial equity and inclusivity. Your answers during registration will help us to know how we are doing.

Emma Singer

Emma Singer is the Twin Cities Education Coordinator for Friends of the Boundary Waters. Emma works with the rest of the Education team at Friends to support student trips to the Boundary Waters, classroom visits, and online resources for 6-12 classrooms. Emma has more than 10 years of teaching experience as an outdoor educator, naturalist, and classroom science teacher. She is committed to helping teachers find creative ways to bring authentic scientific inquiry into their classrooms and connect with the outdoors.

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Next Generation Climate is an interdisciplinary six-lesson climate change curriculum that uses the Next Generation Science Standards as a framework. Access here

The Next Generation Climate (NGC) curriculum was first developed in 2015 to meet a growing need for curricular materials that develop students’ climate literacy while supporting the Next Generation Science standards (NGSS). Over a decade later, climate change education has grown more comprehensive, but it remains no less important to educate students about the foundations of climate change and solutions to the crisis. The 2025 update includes current graphs and data sets, plus more interdisciplinary approaches that highlight climate justice leaders and perspectives.

This curriculum’s main purpose is to build students’ climate literacy. According to the 2024 Climate Literacy Guidelines, a climate-literate person: “Understands the essential principles of Earth’s climate system and the options to address human-caused climate change; recognizes credible information about climate change and knows where to find it; communicates about climate change in accurate and effective ways; and is able to make informed decisions related to climate change.”

We hope that NGC can serve as both an introduction to climate change and as a source of activities that deepen and broaden students’ climate literacy. Formal and non-formal educators will find that NGC aligns with their frameworks and can spark climate conversations in any subject area. We invite you to dive in!

International Association for Human Rights Education

3rd International Conference: IAHRE 2026

Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World

26-27 May 2026

Venue: Zfsl Münster

Germany

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers  

Abstract Deadline Extended until 17 November 2025

Background

The International Association for Human Rights Education (IAHRE) was established in 2023 at the 15th International Conference for Education and Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC) hosted by Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin, Ireland. IAHRE’s goal is to support the development of human rights education research, scholarship and practice. IAHRE’s scholarly journal is the award-winning Human Rights Education Review founded in 2018 and published by Taylor and Francis.

The IAHRE Conference is a meeting place for scholars, researchers, graduate students, education policymakers, and civil society activists from across Europe and internationally. It builds on the work of the WERA International Research Network on Human Rights Education, coordinated by Professors Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey. It provides a unique opportunity to present and discuss current research and policy relating to human rights education and questions of human rights within education. There is an expectation that presenters will submit their final revised conference papers to Human Rights Education Review.

Call for papers

We invite papers for the 2026 IAHRE Conference Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World. IAHRE 2026 is an interdisciplinary conference, and we welcome scholars fromsociology, education, law, history, politics, geography and other relevant disciplines. Papers should review and critically reflect on human rights education policy and practice, child rights education and the wider area of education and human rights. NGO colleagues who have case studies of campaigns are likewise invited. We welcome contributions from researchers at all stages of their careers.

IAHRE 2026 is taking place in a world that is increasingly unstable, with growing authoritarianism and challenges to human rights and democratic values in all regions. Climate change, disinformation, terrorism, war and conflict, hate speech and xenophobia confront us in the starkest terms. Educators and activists are working in an unstable world where human rights and international standards are called into question and increasingly derided by political leaders from both right and left.

In many democratic countries the public is ill-informed about human rights standards and their relevance to our daily lives.  Human rights educators need to be creative in their efforts to ensure that both teachers and students know their rights and are ready to defend the rights of others. In selecting our IAHRE 2026 theme – Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World –we are mindful of both the challenges and the opportunities that educators in varied contexts face.

Human rights education (HRE) is supported by UN Sustainable Development Goal 4. HRE has a vital role in maintaining hope and enabling people of all ages to reimagine a positive future. Children and young adults frequently struggle to make their voices heard and children face barriers to democratic participation since they are excluded from formal political mechanisms and decision-making processes. HRE has a key role to play in addressing and challenging intergenerational justice.

Any vision of a sustainable future necessarily includes ‘sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development’ (SDG 4.7). IAHRE 2026 invites contributions that build on these themes and includes but is not limited to papers addressing:

• Human rights curricula
• Child rights and education
• Education for peace  
• Global citizenship education
• Migration, citizenship and rights
• Children’s digital worlds
• Human rights, intercultural and language learning
• Worldviews and religion
• Decolonising learning  
• Teacher education and human rights
• Legal education
• Social studies (including history and geography)

Abstracts of no more than 300 words including paper title, your name, institutional affiliation and contact email should be sent, no later than Monday 3 November 2025 to: Professor Frauke Matz frauke.matz@uni-muenster.de

All abstracts will be peer reviewed by members of the IAHRE Conference Steering Committee. Please indicate whether you would prefer to give an oral or a poster presentation. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of the review by the end of November 2025.

A full draft of accepted papers should be submitted by 30 March 2026. Your revised paper should be submitted to Human Rights Education Review by 6 July 2026.

Registration will open in October 2025

Conference fees:

IAHRE Annual Members should pay or renew their membership for 2026 (£65 GBP) prior to registration to benefit from IAHRE member conference rates

Earlybird rates (registration by 4 March 2026)

IAHRE members £295 (GBP)

Non-members    £395

A limited number of bursaries may be available for unwaged/ low-waged PhD candidates  who are IAHRE members and whose proposal (poster/oral) is accepted for presentation.    

Standard rates (after 4 March 2026)

IAHRE members £395

Non-members    £495

Conference Steering Committee:

Professor Frauke Matz Conference Co-Director, University of Münster

Professor Audrey Osler Editor-in-Chief Human Rights Education Review, University of Leeds

Professor Hugh Starkey IAHRE Treasurer+ corresponding committee member for academic questions, University College London h.starkey@ucl.ac.uk

Dr David Rott Conference Co-Director, University of Münster

Climate Generation is a proud member of the Zero Waste Coalition, a group of environmental justice organizations working to advance policies that would challenge our throwaway and single use culture. As a coalition, we have advocated for several solutions like expanding our Electronic Waste Recycling programs, requiring additional toxins testing for our food packaging, and overall policies that would eliminate our need for single use plastic.Solutions like these and many others will be highlighted at our upcoming Zero Waste Fest!

Register for the Zero Waste Fest happening on October 11th!

This free community event will be taking place at the Burroughs Community School from 10am – 4pm and will have:Inspiring panels on zero waste, plastics, and reuseTabling from local groups and ways to get involvedClothing swaps and mendingFood trucks, art, and musicZero Waste Fest is a day to come together, celebrate solutions, and build momentum for a zero waste future in Minnesota. From reuse and repair to composting and recycling, we’ll share bold policies and build community power to address our waste and climate crises. Enjoy thought-provoking panels, delicious food, local art, and hands-on activities that make it easy to take action.You can RSVP here!

As the new school year gets underway, Learning for Justice offers new and updated resources from our Education Justice series. These resources are designed to help educators foster inclusive public schools.

This series for educators, parents and caregivers currently includes articles and resources to support public schools and the learning and well-being of all students. 

What Is Social Justice Education? 
Scholar and educator Lee Anne Bell explains social justice education and highlights its role in actively countering injustice and helping to build an inclusive democracy for the benefit of all. 

Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Supports Inclusive Education
Ensuring education is inclusive of young people with diverse needs and abilities takes intentional practice; Universal Design for Learning can help educators design experiences that benefit all learners.

Creating School Culture That Nurtures Young People
This resource builds on an understanding of holistic child development and offers strategies for fostering family-school-community partnerships and being intentional about building classroom relationships.

 Inclusive Classroom Facilitation Model
This classroom facilitation model seeks to reframe “classroom management” through practices that are responsive and student-centered, with the goal of ensuring learning and well-being.

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