Welcome to our Fall Newsletter! 

Highlights:

  • Registration Open for Our Online Winter Workshop
  • New Interview with Paul K. Chappell in The Sun Magazine
  • Peace Literacy Video Series Now Available
  • Using Virtual Reality to Globalize Peace Literacy: From Orange County to the Middle East

 

Peace Literacy Winter Workshop

Registration Open | Space is Limited

 

To keep our workshops as accessible as possible, we offer a sliding scale between $180 and $360.​

All proceeds help keep our online curriculum free and help support our Peace Literacy work with educators and students around the globe.​

If you need financial support to participate, please contact Jo Ann Deck for scholarship opportunities. (joannpdeck@peaceliteracy.org)​

To read feedback and endorsements from previous workshops,

visit peaceliteracy.org/traction.

To begin the registration process, please sign up here. Thank you!

New Interview with Paul K. Chappell

in The Sun Magazine

The Sun Magazine | The Best Defense | Leslee Goodman | Issue 551

P eace educator is an ironic career choice for Paul K. Chappell, who graduated from West Point Military Academy, was deployed to Iraq, and spent seven years in active duty, leaving the Army as a captain.

Peace Literacy Video Series Now Available

zoom video series

Welcome to our video series of 5 short Zoom recordings introducing some of the basics of Peace Literacy, for educators and students of all ages.

Using Virtual Reality to Globalize Peace Literacy:

From Orange County to the Middle East

 

We are grateful to have been able to pilot our Peace Literacy VR curriculum with a number of educators and peace builders this fall.

 

Orange County (CA) Department of Education Assistant Superintendent Vern Burton, who has been championing the use of our VR curriculum within the ACCESS alternative high school program for youth-placed-at-risk, has said that it "could be the most engaging social emotional learning experience I have seen in my 25 years as an educator." On Nov. 2 we took 5 ACCESS students and their teachers on their first VR field trip into the human condition, beginning with a trip to the Island of Aggression.

Earlier on October 14-17, we held workshops for our new partners at the Abrahamic Reunion who work with youth from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim backgrounds in the Middle East. Special thanks to Abrahamic Reunion Board Member Michael Macy, a former U.S. State Department diplomat who has served in Haiti, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia, and wrote that  “…what you are creating will have a significant impact on peace in Israel and Palestine.” We made a 2 min video with more of their feedback, below:

We welcome your support!

Your giving will help fund new curriculum and videos, our VR work with youth-at-risk, and scholarships for our workshops.

Our world needs Peace Literacy now more than ever.

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