Learn how to integrate human rights into any classroom as skilled and innovative educators share their experiences, lessons, and expert advice. Downloadable guides provide in-depth instruction and applicable ideas that empower educators to bring human rights education to the next generation of defenders.
Introduction to Human Rights Education
Human Rights Principles and Education
Join us for the first session of our three-part series “Zooming for Human Rights Education,” where participants can find out how to incorporate human rights education into online teaching that engages students, and meet our global community of human rights educators. This session gave participants the opportunity to:
Learn about human rights principles and education.
Access STTP resources at no cost, including online lesson plans, contests, a virtual field trip, and more!
Connect with the STTP team and the incredible educators already using the program in their classrooms.
Human Rights Education in Practice: The Story of Eva Pacheco, Director of EJE Academies
During the San Diego STTP Summer Institute, attendees participated in an interactive film workshop on documentary storytelling, led by lead educators Meredith Baldi and Prescott Seraydarian from George School. The final video produced in the workshop features pioneering human rights educator Eva Pacheco and is an example of how to use film in the classroom to tell the story of local human rights defenders. Through her story, learn how human rights can be integrated in every aspect of school culture.
Join host Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and president of RFK Human Rights, as we bring together established and rising human rights defenders for an inspiring conversation about activism. Take a Virtual Field Trip to meet:
Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Van Jones, social entrepreneur, CNN political contributor
Jazz Jennings, LGBTQ rights activist and star of TLC’s “I Am Jazz”
Darrick Hamilton, Executive Director of the Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Ibtihaj Muhammad, Olympic Fencing Bronze Medalist
These defenders will share their inspiring stories and answer questions about what sparked their passion for activism and what “speaking truth to power” means to them. Tune in to see how your students can defend human rights in their communities and the world! Prepare for the event by downloading the companion activity.
Human Rights Education & the Sustainable Development Goals
Did you know that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals directly reflect human rights standards? Dr. Leighangela Brady, superintendent of National School District, shares how her district brings these goals and human rights work into the classroom, addressing real world problems with engaging learning opportunities.
Learn how to incorporate human rights education in science classes, featuring Stephanie Thliveris, who teaches science and sustainability at the Buckingham Friends School.
Human Rights Education & Restorative Justice
Join the Speak Truth to Power team and Cymone Fuller and Sia Henry of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice to explore how educators can bring restorative justice practices and human rights principles into the classroom—modeling alternatives to punishment that allow students to develop deeper empathy, patience, active listening skills, ownership over their learning environment, and responsible decision making to support their social-emotional wellbeing for years and decades to come.
Service-learning is a powerful and provocative way for young people to learn about human rights-related issues and put their human rights learning into action. Working in both the classroom and the “field,” establishes a crucial link between the content of curriculum learned in school and their communities, and it empowers them to create a better, more humane world for all. This manual provides an in-depth introduction to service learning along with guided lessons for designing and implementing an effective service learning project.
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