IN THE CLASSROOM
Through the Youth & Peace in Action (YPA) online and in-class resources from NewGen Peacebuilders, students come to understand drivers of conflict and peace and develop critical thinking skills to generate project ideas.
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Curriculum Units from YPA
Standards-aligned curriculum consists of interactive, online courses delivered in sequential modules for high school students. Course completion achieves understanding of fundamental drivers of conflict and peace, the ability to imagine innovative approaches to change, and skills to frame an issue problem statement and create a peace project idea. Students are guided through independent, interactive online content supported by teachers during in-class discussions, reflections, and small group interactive activities.
Youth & Peace in Action curriculum units make it easy for school districts, schools, and classroom teachers to provide standards-aligned content that equips young people as peacebuilders. Curriculum units include:
Course-At-A-Glance
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8 online modules
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8 in-class lesson plans
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8 sets of slides
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16 hands-on activities (digital & printable versions)
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Reflection journal
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Assessments
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Certificates of completion
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Project ideas
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Course-At-A-Glance 〰️ 8 online modules 〰️ 8 in-class lesson plans 〰️ 8 sets of slides 〰️ 16 hands-on activities (digital & printable versions) 〰️ Reflection journal 〰️ Assessments 〰️ Certificates of completion 〰️ Project ideas 〰️
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The Right to Rights
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My Peacebuilder Foundations
The My Peacebuilder Foundations Curriculum Unit includes interactive, online content delivered in sequential modules for high school students. Online content is supplemented with lesson plans, PPT slides, hands, reflection journals, and peace project ideas available to teachers for use in the classroom.
Course completion achieves understanding of fundamental drivers of conflict and peace, the ability to imagine innovative approaches to change, and skills to frame a problem statement and create a peace project idea. Through the course, students learn to use established frameworks to consider how power, conflict, violence and peace intersect.
My Peacebuilder Foundations includes content that is useful to students in other class research, papers and capstone projects. Every module uses technology-based ideas-sharing tools.
Built-in assessments ensure that students who complete the course can receive a certificate from NewGen Peacebuilders and Youth & Peace in Action.
My Peacebuilder Foundations is delivered through a series of online modules that leverage the NewGen Peacebuilders 7H Framework.
Connecting Reading, Literature, and Peacebuilding
The Reading, Literature, and Peacebuilding Curriculum Unit includes interactive, online content for students and supplemental materials for teachers that allow young people to explore intersections between peacebuilding and:
Identity
Conflict
Justice
Action
As students complete modules, they explore how analyzing literature acts as a powerful tool for understanding the global human experience. This curriculum connects building a culture of peace, understanding conflict, and building bridges through the study of literature.
Through the inclusion of multiple primary source documents, global perspectives, and types of text (poetry, nonfiction, data organized into charts and graphs, etc.), content is aligned to English standards related to four types of literacy: critical, digital, language, and research.
Built-in assessments ensure that students who complete the course can receive a certificate from NewGen Peacebuilders and Youth & Peace in Action.
Civics and Peacebuilding
The National Council for Social Studies states the primary purpose of social studies is to help young people make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. Experiences in the social studies classrooms should enable students to engage in civic discourse and problem-solving and take informed civic action.
Through interactive online content for students and supplemental in-class content available to teachers, the Civics and Peacebuilding Curriculum Unit leads students to understand how they can engage in civic discourse and problem-solving in a culturally diverse, interdependent world.
Spriha Manjigani, NewGen Peacebuilders alumna