NYSUT’s work made international news on June 1. Here’s a link to story on the Inter Press Service. Their links are a bit outdated, so here’s a direct link to the curriculum. Thanks Joi from Kenmore for alerting us to it.

“A number of things have happened over the last few months that didn’t exactly surprise me nor anger me but motivated me to want to take action for myself and my fellow educators who fall under the LGBTQ umbrella,” says one NYSUT member who teaches in the Capital Region.

Human rights activist and Shanker award winner Kerry Kennedy gave delegates a scoop Thursday night, sharing the news that NYSUT and the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights will be partnering on a new initiative — a video competition for student filmmakers that will commence in the next academic year.

Students at Coxsackie-Athens High School in rural Greene County were particularly moved Friday – some near tears – when they heard 16-year-old Jessica Rios talk about her life as a migrant farm worker. “Is this what my life will always be like?” she muses in The Harvest, a new documentary by filmmaker U.Roberto Romano that [...]

Today’s celebration of International Human Rights Day and the launch of the new Speak Truth to Power human rights curriculum came to classrooms across New York live from Chestnut Ridge Middle School in Spring Valley, New York.

Lucas Benitez flew in to Westchester airport yesterday afternoon, bundled up for New York’s frigid weather and noting that it was, remarkably, 38 degrees in Florida: not enough to imperil the tomato crop but still unseasonably cold. At dinner with teachers and fellow unionists he told of a great gain, recently inked, for Immokalee Workers, [...]

“This looks fantastic!” Caryn Davis e-mailed me about the Speak Truth to Power Curriculum posted on NYSUT’s website. Caryn teaches English for Speakers of Other Languages at the College of Staten Island, part of the City Univerity of New York so she’s a member of the Professional Staff Congress. She wants to work it into her [...]