Human Rights Education
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Howard professor Dr. Helen Bond talks education, cultural diversity, CRT at Speak Truth to Power event
Tags Share Quality education—one of the key components of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—is a driver of development. So said Helen Bond Ph.D., Howard University Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and co-chair of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN USA) at a live virtual event titled ‘Speak Truth to Power: The Magic…
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Fall 2022 Defender Speaker Series: Introductory Lesson for Dr. Helen Bond
As states move to limit critical conversations in classrooms, Dr. Bond is using the U.N.’s sustainable development goals as a framework to promote equity and justice in education.
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RFK the Vote Symposium
Share Students will learn about and discuss the role of democracy and essential elements of human rights. Critical to this discussion are elements of the UNDHR to features of a liberal democracy. This symposium is apart of a certification process where participants will receive a T-shirt, certificate of completion, and letter from RFKHR coining them…
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Centering classroom dialogue on common truths through human rights education
Tags Share Article written by Jonathan Coulombe, Upper School Dean of Students at the King School in Stamford, CT. Several years ago, we struggled to engage our student body at King School around issues of importance in their world. Too often we, as adults, were designing the conversations and failed to gain traction with helping…
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Educator spotlight: Mr Albert Celis on using film to empower his students
Tags Share Next year’s STTP Video Contest is now accepting submissions! Click here for guidelines and resources, and click here to submit your video by April 26, 2023. Last school year was a difficult chapter for many students, parents, and teachers: COVID-19 brought unprecedented challenges to education and our society. Students returned to the classroom…
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Returning to school when ‘education is not neutral’: today’s challenges in educating the next generation
Tags Share Across the country, teachers and staff members are returning to schools while still trying to manage the aftermath of the pandemic, virtual learning, volatile political rhetoric directed at education and educators, and school shootings. As teachers, you are navigating a difficult – and often volatile – educational landscape, particularly when bringing critical thinking,…
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Welcoming two new staff members: Rebecca Stephens and Allison Gilmore
Tags Share The Human Rights Education Speak Truth to Power team welcomes two new staff members. Rebecca Stephens joins us as the new HRE Capacity Building Manager. Rebecca is responsible for our educator-facing work, and she will take the lead in implementing the whole school framework with partner schools. Rebecca comes to us with a…
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Speak Truth to Power video contestants shine at Tribeca Festival
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights on Thursday announced five students as winners of the 2022 Speak Truth to Power video contest at an event held at the Tribeca Film Screening Room in New York. “Your commitment to human rights, your commitment to creating a more just and peaceful world is a source of…
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L.A. high school second to adopt whole-school model for human rights education
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights staff and a group of educators in Los Angeles formally began a new partnership in late April as the Business in Artivism Management (BAM) Learning Community at Edward Roybal Learning Center prepares to become the nation’s second “human rights centered school.” The initiative involves centering human rights education…
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This Teacher Appreciation Day, we’re showcasing what our educators are writing
Tags Share Two Speak Truth to Power educators have contributed to new books on social justice and implementing a human rights curriculum in the classroom. Robin DeLuca-Acconi, assistant dean for student services in the School of Social Welfare at Stony Brook University, has written a chapter with her former colleague, Denise Campbell, assistant superintendent for…
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