School program: Be an Upstander (Grades 9 to 12)

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

Learn how to be a human rights upstander by discovering the stories of people who used their personal strengths to take a stand, protect their rights and the rights of others, and create change. Throughout this discussion‐driven program, students will consider what it means to be a genuine upstander in the 21st century, how social media can play a part, and what it means to be an agent for your own rights versus an ally for the rights of others.

Program Messages:

  • Upstanders recognize injustice and use their unique strengths, gifts and abilities to create change. 
  • Upstanders recognize injustices and know the difference between taking a stand for a cause that affects them directly or one that affects others.
  • Upstanders are regular people who make mistakes and learn from them.
  • Upstanders use their strengths, gifts and abilities to create change, being mindful of how they can be a good ally. 

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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