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May 15, 2024 7:00 PM

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As educators explore civic engagement and agency with students, a challenge emerges in creating processes that remain youth-centered and resist slipping into adultism. In this webinar, you will learn from Dr. Stephanie Serriere, IU Columbus, as she pulls from her experiences leading youth, including the iEngage youth civic empowerment camp in Indiana. Dr. Serriere will share youth participatory action research (YPAR) as a strategy for reinvigorating the civics curriculum and engaging youth in powerful ways that align well with inquiry and the C3 framework. This session is relevant for K-12 civics educators, and any educator interested in deepening their practice around fostering youth-centered civic engagement. More information.

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Stephanie Serriere, a Professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC), seeks to promote youth civic engagement through engaged scholarship in schools and communities. As a recent recipients of IU’s Racial Justice Grant funded by IU Vice President for Research and the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs, her research on Hoosier youth activists working for racial justice was recently (2023) published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Like someone’s got you:” External supports for youth activists and intersectional justice.” 

Her engaged scholarship supports pre-service teachers, practicing teachers, and public entities promoting youth leadership and civic participation. Most recently, Stephanie directed Indiana’s first iEngage Youth Civic Empowerment camp with IU’s Center on Representative Government (CoRG), modeled after Baylor University’s award-winning model. 

In her free time, she loves trail running, doing yoga, and going on hikes with her family and their golden retriever, Maggie.

One simple way to support place-based education and inspire action for climate change solutions is to connect our identities to our place through observation and writing. Acess this field activity here!

Environmental changes connected to climate change have been observed around the world. We are all eyewitnesses to climate change, and many of these changes can be observed in our communities. We all have a part to play in creating solutions. Sometimes it is hard to see that, especially when we aren’t used to observing and thinking about climate change in our communities. Let’s take time today, right now, to get outside, explore our communities, and connect to the land to reestablish our relationship to the Earth and to one another. We invite you and your students to participate in an independent exercise of self reflection, observation, and writing. We see this activity as an opportunity to connect to your community individually, and also as an activity for place-based, interdisciplinary climate change education with your students. ¿Está buscando este recurso en español? Haga clic aquí.

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” NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 7, 2024, as National Teacher Appreciation Day and May 6 through May 10, 2024, as National Teacher Appreciation Week.  I call upon all Americans to recognize the hard work and dedication of our Nation’s teachers and to observe this day and this week by supporting teachers through appropriate activities, events, and programs.”

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2024 Ripple of Hope Award Gala: New York City on December 11, 2024

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Each year, the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award honors exemplary leaders across government, business, advocacy, and entertainment who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to social change and worked to protect and advance equity, justice, and human rights.

We are pleased to announce the availability of our latest installment of podcast episodes in Human Rights Education NOW! Episodes 29 & 30 feature conversations with  Dr. Lina Lenberg. Dr. Lina Lenberg has been an educator for over 20 years. Lina  works as a middle school classroom teacher and a part-time professor in the  International and Multicultural Education Department at the University of San  Francisco. Lina serves on the editorial board for the International Journal of  Human Rights Education. Lina wrote her dissertation on the Uyghur genocide in  East Turkestan and the Uyghur diaspora’s resistance to Chinese state violence. Her latest project is the Uyghur Genocide Online Resource Center. Her publications include the article Uyghur Diaspora Activism in the Face of Genocide; a book review (from 2017): Human Rights and Schooling: An Ethical Framework for Teaching Social Justice. 

Educators at all levels and in varied settings can use these episodes to inform their work in HRE by downloading and sharing them with colleagues and students along with developing lesson plans and activities using episode content.  

All episodes of Human Rights Education Now! are available on:

Buzzsprout, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Deezer, PlayerFM, Pocket Casts, and the HRE USA website
HRE USA would love to learn how listeners are using episodes in their classrooms and with their communities. Please send comments and ideas for classroom use to kristi@hreusa.org.

For Listeners: Moved from Google Podcasts to YouTube Music in April

• Google Podcast was discontinued on April 2, 2024.
• We moved all our episodes onto YouTube Music. 
• All previously published episodes will remain available on Apple Podcasts,Spotify, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Deezer, and PlayerFM. 

Thank you for supporting the Human Rights Education NOW! podcast!

Teachers in your state are invited to participate in a research project about the experiences of K–12 teachers. The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) is partnering with researchers at PI-Opinion to organize 45-minute conversations with teachers in select states from now through mid-May.
Conversations are informal. No preparation needed. In appreciation, those who are eligible and complete interviews will receive a $75 retail gift card. Importantly, all participants will have the option for the conversation to be confidential. 

This is a chance to make your views heard! Please complete a short form, which should take about 5 minutes. Apply by May 1st to be eligible to participate. If selected, you will receive a confirmation email from admin@pi-opinion.com with booking information. (Direct any questions about participating to that same email address.)

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