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This article is about how teachers help students who've survived trauma.
Given increased enforcement activity in recent years by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), it is important that immigrant rights advocates and local communities be prepared in the event of a raid.
In this article published by Edutopia, using a trauma-informed approach, learn how to boost students’ sense of optimism.
This application has easy step-by-step instructions for more than 250 drawings.
With this application you can access more than 600 drawing tutorials.
This application has step-by-step instructions, including 3D animation, to teach users how to make paper airplanes.
It is important to be prepared and to know your rights and your family’s rights in case of a raid or other encounter with ICE or local law enforcement.
Everybody has rights under the U.S. constitution that you may exercise in such a situation. There are also a number of steps you can take ahead of any encounter to minimize panic, family separation, and loss of financial assets. This guide provides helpful information on preparing as well as responding to a raid in your home, workplace, or in a public space.
This is an article about "how to raise generous kids" as well as "how to keep them from believing stereotypes about the less fortunate."
At The Trevor Project, we’re always working to create a safer world for LGBTQ youth. Our guide on “How to Support Bisexual Youth: Ways to Care for Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Queer Youth Who are Attracted to More than One Gender” is an introductory educational resource that covers a wide range of topics and best practices for supporting the bisexual youth in your life, which may include yourself! Educating ourselves is an ongoing practice, and how we define and express identity is an ongoing journey.
June 19, or Juneteenth, is a holiday that commemorates the day that Texas, the last Confederate state, learned about the Emancipation Proclamation — marking the end of slavery in the United States in 1865.
But as University of Pittsburgh historian Alaina Roberts notes, it’s important to remember that the emancipation of slaves didn’t actually happen in one fell swoop. Here's information about talking to children about Juneteenth and why it is important to do so.
Discussing death with your kids can be a real concern and many tend to avoid it. Death is however an inevitable part of life and it is our responsibility to ensure our kids are aware of it and know it’s okay to discuss it.
Basic tips for how to talk with a child of any age about gun violence.
This article is about "how trauma is changing children’s brains".
Howtosmile.org is an online community that provides teachers with the best educational creative learning materials, tools, and services to create success with science and math in the classroom.
Together in a collaborative partnership, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and OutVote offer a Campus Organizing Guide to the 2024 Election. This resource provides information and a step-by-step guide for college students to participate in the election as active voters. If a student is not yet registered to vote, the Campus Organizing Guide also provides information on how to do so.
The Human Rights Campaign represents a force of more than 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
This Human Rights Day Toolkit created by the Human Rights Watch Student Task Force is designed to empower students and teachers to educate their communities about Human Rights Day. Here you will find background information, basic human rights vocabulary, videos, activities, lesson plans, and event planning ideas.
Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities. Established in 1978, Human Rights Watch is known for its accurate fact-finding, impartial reporting, effective use of media, and targeted advocacy, often in partnership with local human rights groups.
Here are some activities that are good for exploring prejudice and discrimination.