Essays & Articles
“The America I Know”
Arroyo High School students reflect on their life experiences to cast a bright light on the different Americas of our time May 2021 Dear Friends and Colleagues, On April 14th juniors of the Arroyo High School Future Leaders of Social Change Small Learning Community presented their virtual [...]
Consider Robert Hunter’s words: “See here how everything lead up to this day!”
Subscribe to our Newsletter From the Grateful Dead’s Black Peter, a compelling way to examine ourselves and our country March 2021 Dear Friends and Colleagues, This past October we wrote about how to better understand the factors that contribute to our personal stress, along with information [...]
Strange Fruit: The Power of Poetry, Music, and Solidarity
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights lays out the interdependent and interconnected nature of our rights and responsibilities as human beings. Through art, we can follow how our lives connect across generations, cultures, and geographic locations. The story behind the famous protest song, Strange Fruit, first performed and made [...]
Teaching Guide on Racial Justice by Examining the Right to Vote and Participate in One’s Government
The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program Teaching Guide on Racial Justice by Examining the Right to Vote and Participate in One’s Government Overview and Introduction In our work, including our Curriculum and Resource Guide geared to High School, when the [...]
Onward to 2021 and putting more human back into being
Subscribe to our Newsletter December 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues, Recent presentations by Loretta Ross have greatly inspired me to think more about what it means to be human in these challenging times, and where we can go from here. In the first of the two presentations, [...]
In the face of rampant stress, some knowledge to nurture our health and resiliency
Subscribe to our Newsletter Did you know how healthy humming is? October 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues, A recent NPR article identifies the levels of stress so many of us are experiencing. While we have communicated often about the importance of speaking up and taking action [...]
Teaching Guide on the Right to Vote and Participate in One’s Government
The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program Teaching Guide On The Right To Vote And Participate In One’s Government As we approach the November 3, 2020 Presidential election, The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program (TWAICB) is pleased to [...]
Heeding John Lewis to Speak Up and Speak Out Right Now!
We must mobilize to help contain Covid-19 and insist that our leaders act responsibly. August 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues, We last communicated about where we could from here as we dealt with the initial shelter-in-place requirements to stem the spread of the Covid-19 virus. We now [...]
Where could we go from here?
A proverb for this time: If we don’t change direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. Dear Friends and Colleagues, On March 17th, I was among a few to receive an email from a dear friend and colleague, where she forwarded a message [...]
(Email Correspondence)
Oral history interview with Lois Stein on meeting Eleanor Roosevelt
In early 2022, The World As It Could Be's [...]
Best Wishes for a New Year Filled With the Will to Keep Moving Forward
As we learned from our youth: Where There’s A [...]
From Futility to Possibility
Inspired by the Grateful Dead’s Playing in the Band [...]
TWAICB & Andrea McEvoy Spero, EdD
In 2010, University of San Francisco EdD candidate Andrea [...]
A story about how one person’s actions can make a major difference
Mark Heutlinger next to the Harry T. Burleigh [...]
NCSS Human Rights Education Position Statement Revision (2021)
Human Rights Education: A Position Statement of National Council [...]
Our Name, Our Story and Why This Matters
September 2021 Dear Friends and Colleagues, When I [...]
Collaborations
The World As It Could Be at Inventing Our Future, August 7-9
The Rex Foundation will present a class on The World [...]
Human Rights Education and the Performing Arts
Andrea McEvoy Spero's article in Peace Review: A Journal of [...]
KQED Honors Destiny Arts’ Sarah Crowell
We're delighted to report that Sarah Crowell, Artistic Director of [...]
Oakland’s Youth Movement Records
Sandy Sohcot visits Oakland's Youth Movement Records Rexfoundation.org [...]