High School
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Students examine how the 2022 World Cup has highlighted Qatar's history of labor exploitation and make connections between the sporting event and global issues of workers' rights and climate migration...
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Beyond the Headlines: Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti
Students learn about the current humanitarian crisis in Haiti and explore its connection to foreign exploitation through the legacy of French colonial rule, debts, and military interventions.
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Beyond the Headlines: Justice for Mahsa (Zhina) Amini and Global Protests Against State Violence
Students learn about the protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini in police custody and connect the protests to global calls for justice in response to state violence.
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What the Fact?! Teaching Guide
This teaching guide supports in-depth engagement with Dr. Seema Yasmin's new book about media literacy, which explains how misinformation spreads, its effects, and what we can do to stop it.
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Banished but Unbowed: An American Legacy
Students journey through historical points of displacement and dispossession and create a digital museum that identifies tribal communities displaced by The Morrill Act.
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Dramatic Scriptwriting and Underreported Issues
Students analyze how journalist-playwrights communicate true stories through theater, then plan and write their own dramatic scripts about underreported issues, working to center marginalized voices.
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Students analyze reporting from Eastern Europe to evaluate the differences between the authoritarian and representative democracy styles of governments. They explore ways that leaders from both styles...
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The Power of the Personal Story
Students analyze news stories and other nonfiction texts focused on the experiences of individuals who have been forced to migrate throughout the world, and then practice the skills of storytelling...
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Our World, Our Story: Investigating and Crafting Underreported Stories in Our Communities
Students engage with a series of underreported feature stories in global and local contexts and then investigate an underreported story about their own community to be published as a feature on a...
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After examining how women across the globe are overcoming gender inequality amplified by the pandemic through advocacy and financial empowerment, students promote opportunities to invest in micro...
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Students evaluate educational budget priorities in the wake of COVID-19 by exploring underreported pandemic stories advocating for initiatives that prioritize mental health support for students.
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Students learn about disenfranchisement and the fight for voting rights from Reconstruction to the present. They then compose an underreported story about a person fighting for democracy locally.