Introducing the Human Rights Education Now! Podcast

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 

Brainstorming Workshop: New and emerging humanrights programs and initiatives

March 17th at 11am ET/8am PT
Register Here


At academic institutions across the globe, new programs are being launched to integrate human rights pedagogy, knowledge and practice into the curriculum and community via a variety of pathways: undergraduate human rights majors, minors, and concentrations; masters and doctoral programs; crossdisciplinary initiatives; and free-standing human rights institutes, among others.

This brainstorming session will feature presentations by leaders of new and emerging programs, followed by discussion and input from UCCHRE members.


Presenters:
Grace Cheng, Director, Center for Human Rights, San Diego State University
Carrie Cuthbert, Project Advisor, (Re)Visioning Human Rights, Democracy and the Liberal Arts, Smith College
Golam Mathbor, Professor and Program Director, Doctor of Social Work (DSW) in Human Rights Leadership, School of Social Work, Monmouth University

How To Do Human Rights Education: Online workshop by global scholar Audrey Osler

Mon, 27 March 2023, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT

Register here!

Improve Children’s Lives Through Human Rights Education at a free workshop by international human rights education scholar Dr. Audrey Osler
Do you ever wonder about what we can do to change attitudes of intolerance and advocate better for peace and justice?
We can’t do what we don’t know.
We can’t teach what we’ve never been taught.
Solutions can be found in this workshop on how to integrate Human Rights Education (HRE) into your courses, organizations, and life.
Dr. Audrey Osler is one of the world’s experts in human rights education (HRE) and is coming to conduct a workshop for educators and public leaders. Her publications include: Teachers, Human Rights and Diversity: educating citizens in a multicultural society, Changing Citizenship: democracy and inclusion in educationGirls and Exclusion: rethinking the agenda.
Come and find out about all the resources that exist to help you be a human rights defender!

The HRE USA 2023 Edmonds Fellowship application process opens today, March 3, 2023

This year, the Edmonds Fellowship Committee has selected a theme, Protecting Democracy, Promoting Human Rights, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognize the necessity of protecting a democratic and civil society. The Committee is excited about the wonderful project proposals it received and appreciates members submissions.

Fellows will commit 100 hours over roughly 10 weeks to address the topic identified in your proposal. 

The fellowship submission deadline will be March 24, 2023. 

>> About the Edmonds Fellowship

Online Workshop: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples

NEW! Call for educators who are willing to participate in an HRE USA Teacher Feedback session three-days following the March 12th workshop on March 15th at 7pm MST. Interested teachers should contact Kristi Rudelius-Palmer at kristi@hreusa.org to join this session.

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Would you like to have a better grounding in Native American history? An opportunity to offer dynamic interactive workshops about Indigenous peoples’ rights in your classrooms? On Sunday March 12, 2-4 pm MOUNTAIN time, Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples is offering its online workshop, “Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples.” Register here.

During this 2-hour participatory workshop,we experience the history of the colonization of Turtle Island, the land that is now known as the United States. The story is told through the words of Indigenous leaders, European/American leaders, and Western historians. We engage with this history through experiential exercises and small group discussions. And we consider how we can build relationships with Indigenous peoples based on truth, justice, and an understanding of Indigenous peoples’ collective human rights. 

This workshop is presented by Native and non-Native facilitators working together. It is appropriate for high school students and adults. Register here for the next online workshop, or contact co-director Paula Palmer (paulaRpalmer@gmail.com) for more information.

Some sample responses to recent Toward Right Relationship workshops:

From Native participants: 

“Everything that went into this experience and the presentation is so deeply meaningful.” 

“This workshop is the tool I’ve been searching for to begin imagining a new way forward.”  

“This workshop is an innovative and impactful step towards healing.”

From non-Native participants:

“This is a wonderful model for fostering conversations that lead to more understanding among peoples.”    

“I am thankful for the discomfort and what it opened up.”  

“Wow – that was an excellent workshop.  Best zoom educational experience I have had!”  

“I’ve known and thought about indigenous peoples’ history for a long time. Now what I can do is much more in the forefront of my mind.”

Introducing the Human Rights Education Now! Podcast

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 

Human Rights Education Now! Podcast will launch in March, 2023

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. 

HRE USA at Civic Learning Week 2023

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.

Key questions addressed:

  • What are democratic civic values and behaviors?
  • 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.

Special thanks to University of San Francisco and the Department of International & Multicultural Education for Co-Sponsoring and providing the webinar platform.