School program: Be an Upstander (Grades 5 to 8)

Program length: 75 minutes

A Museum guide showing five students how to engage with the digital table, around which they are all standing. Partially obscured.

Photo: CMHR, Aaron Cohen

School program details

By recognizing injustices and using our strengths and abilities, we can all be upstanders for human rights. The Be an Upstander program has been reimagined with new messages and activities for students to consider how their choices and community shape their paths as upstanders.

Program messages:

  • The choices we make shape our paths as upstanders, creating opportunities for change along the way.
  • Our impact as upstanders is amplified when we work in community, supporting each other and bringing together multiple skills and abilities. 
  • Upstanders are defined by their desire to make the world a better place, no matter how small their actions may be. 

Continue the learning in your classroom with the interactive Be an Upstander website and complementary teacher guide.

Be an Upstander

Our new interactive classroom resource takes students from knowing about human rights to knowing how to take action.

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