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Teaching Climate Change with Moose

by hreusaNovember 19, 2025Leave a comment

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.

Become a Member of HRE USA

by hreusaNovember 18, 2025Leave a comment

HRE USA is a coalition of hundreds of members across the country, and we continue to grow daily. We are academics, activists, parents, educators, students, unions, policy makers, social scientists, software engineers, professors, artists, and non-profit organizations united with a common mission: promoting human dignity, justice, and peace by cultivating an expansive, vibrant base of support for human rights education (HRE) within the United States.

There are two ways to join the HRE USA community: as an individual or as an organization.

>> Learn more and become a member today!

Defending Democracy: The Role of South Korean Labor Unions

by hreusaNovember 17, 2025November 17, 2025Leave a comment

Historically labor unions in the U.S. and around the world have been at the forefront of mobilizing their members to protect civil liberties and strengthen democracy. As part of our Defending Democracy Series, the Albert Shanker Institute is partnering with the AFT International Affairs Department, the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, and the AFT’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Task Force to host a discussion with South Korean union leaders who have been active in ongoing work in South Korea to mobilize communities and strengthen democracy. This webinar will go beyond the recent protests to martial law, share examples of motivating tactics and strategies, and tell the story of longstanding resistance to dictatorship.

Please join us for this important and timely webinar, hosted by AFT Massachusetts President Jessica Tang and ASI Executive Director Mary Cathryn Ricker, as labor union leaders from South Korea share tactical and strategic lessons from their successful efforts to confront authoritarianism and protect democracy.

When: Monday, November 17th | 5:00–6:00 PM EST
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/3hwaftf6

National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference: Human Rights Education events

by hreusaNovember 17, 2025Leave a comment

The National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference is coming up on December 5-7, 2025 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C.

The NCSS Human Rights Education Community, HRE USA and other fantastic human rights partners and co-sponsors have organized a number of events and opportunities throughout the conference weekend. There will be 20 regular, poster and special sessions all focused on human rights education!

We welcome everyone to stand up for social studies and human rights education and attend this wonderful conference weekend. Click on the NCSS Human Rights Education Event flyer HERE for more details on sessions and events.

Conference dates: December 5 to 7, 2025

>> Register Today

>> Please contact Jake Skrzypiec and Chris Buckley at ncss.hre@gmail.com with any questions about NCSS.

>> Please contact Kristi Rudelius-Palmer at kristi@hreusa.org if your organization will have a booth at NCSS or you are attending. We hope to complete a human rights-related organizations hand-out and contacts list for dissemination at the conference.

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Come visit the HRE USA and the Woven Teaching Booth, #20! Amnesty International USA will be at Booths #232 and #234.

HRE USA will work to compile a handout of the human rights-related booths at NCSS.

Please reach out to Kristi Rudelius-Palmer at krist@hreusa.org if you plan to have a booth, attend, or present at NCSS. HRE USA hopes to magnify all of the wonderful work of our network leaders and partners!

Beyond the Border: Human Rights Principles in U.S. Immigration

by hreusaNovember 16, 2025Leave a comment

Join Citizens for Global Solutions – Minnesota (CGS-MN) for a practical conversation with attorney Flavia Santos Lloyd on the domestic legal foundations of U.S. immigration—how federal laws, agencies, and courts shape outcomes in visas, asylum, parole, enforcement, and due process.

Moderated by CGS-MN President Kathya Dawe.

Date: November 20, 2025

Time: Noon – Central Time (USA)

Where: Zoom

National Museum of the American Indian Native Women Leading the Way: From Revolution ot the Future

by hreusaNovember 13, 2025Leave a comment

Learn about the roles Haudenosaunee leaders and communities played during the American Revolution with a deep dive into two powerful new tools designed to bring Native voices and experiences into your classroom:

Native Women Leading the Way: From Revolution to the Future is a teaching poster that spotlights three remarkable Native women who led their communities through the conflict of the American Revolution and beyond.
How Did the Haudenosaunee Persevere Through the American Revolution? is an engaging digital book tailored for middle school students that emphasizes the resilience of the Haudenosaunee people.

>> Resource (PDF, 4.8mb)

November is Native American and Alaskan Native Heritage Month!

by hreusaNovember 13, 2025Leave a comment

From PBS: November is Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month. The celebration of Indigenous cultures began as a week-long celebration in 1986, when President Reagan proclaimed the week of November 23-30, 1986 as “American Indian Week.” Every President since 1995 has issued annual proclamations designating the month of November as the time to celebrate the cultures, accomplishments, and contributions of Native American and Alaska Native communities.

>> Learn more

Human Rights Day Celebration 2025

by hreusaNovember 12, 2025February 3, 2026Leave a comment

Human Rights Begin with Education!

Join us for our annual virtual International Human Rights Day event We will present awards from HRE USA and UCCHRE, showcase projects, and celebrate and connect with the HRE community working on important issues across the country and around the world.

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 1pm (PT)/4pm (ET)

RSVP

Just Updated: Next Generation Climate for Grades 6-8

by hreusaNovember 12, 2025Leave a comment

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!

Discuss Reflective Patriotism with the Center for Civic Education, Harvard University, and Arizona State University

by hreusaNovember 11, 2025Leave a comment

November 20, 2025 • 7:00-8:00 pm EST

Who decides what patriotism looks like? Join the Center as we moderate a discussion between Danielle Allen of Harvard University and Paul Carrese of Arizona State University. This timely conversation on reflective patriotism will explore how the line between patriotism and dissent has shifted throughout American history. This session explores the intersections of protest, civic identity, and constitutional rights—key themes in Unit 6 of We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution. Cosponsored by ASU’s Center for American Civics and Harvard’s Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, this program is part of the Center for Civic Education’s ongoing 60-Minute Civics webinar series. Register here and explore more offerings on our webinars homepage.