Fall Newsletter As every news headline makes clear, our world needs Peace Literacy |
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Newsletter Highlights (scroll down for the details) Partnering with Public Montessori in Urban Cleveland Introducing Our New Student Manual This engaging illustrated manual, along with maps and travel logs, is designed to help students ages 9-99 navigate the human condition, soon to be available for traditional classrooms and as a portal into our virtual reality worlds.
Peace Literacy in Higher Education Learn how Peace Literacy is partnering with the College of Engineering at Oregon State University. PLI board members, Drs. Shari Clough and Christian Matheis, share their recently published essay introducing Peace Literacy to the new field of Public Philosophy.
What is Peace Literacy? In case you missed it, we highlight an introduction to Peace Literacy by PLI Executive Director Paul K. Chappell, featuring a commentary on the promise and peril of virtual reality and the need to escalate our Peace Literacy to better prepare for this oncoming technological tsunami.
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Partnering with Public Montessori in Urban Cleveland |
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Since 2019, the Peace Literacy Institute has been working with teachers, administrators, and community partners who offer Montessori quality education in public school settings in urban Cleveland (CMSD). To the left you see the aspirational attributes of their graduating students. According to Jacqui Miller, Director, Montessori Programming and Operations, Peace Literacy is the technology they need to reach those goals. We just wrapped up an online workshop series with educators at Stonebrook White and Tremont Montessori schools in Cleveland, where Paul K. Chappell and Shari Clough were joined by our main preK-8 curriculum developer Stephanie Clapes (more on Stephanie below!) to hear from educators who've been using our curriculum and to unveil a new set of Peace Literacy lessons, commissioned by educators at Tremont. |
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Peace Literacy Report from the Field |
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Stephanie Clapes, our K-8 learning specialist checks in from New York to share her transformative experiences teaching Peace Literacy. On the need for Peace Literacy she writes: "We set up ideals for students to meet, without giving them the understanding or the tools to meet them." Peace Literacy has worked to fill these gaps. You can find other field reports from educators in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Washington recounting their experiences teaching Peace Literacy at peaceliteracy.org/resources. |
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Introducing Our New Student Manual |
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In addition to the new lessons that Stephanie and Paul are preparing for the public Montessori setting, we have produced this engaging 45 pg. illustrated student manual, sized to match the manuals from classic video games. Along with maps and travel logs, the manual is designed to help students ages 9-99 navigate the human condition. The curricular collection is soon to be available for traditional classrooms and as a portal into our virtual reality worlds. Visit here to learn more. |
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Peace Literacy in Higher Education PLI Executive Director Paul K. Chappell, and Oregon State University Professor Shari Clough have been partnering with Professor Devlin Montfort of the College of Engineering at OSU to introduce Peace Literacy into a newly conceived first-year engineering experience called Engineering +. Devlin was introduced to Peace Literacy at the 2019 summer workshop and has since identified a "Peace Literacy-shaped hole in engineering education." We will be sure to provide updates as the program develops. |
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Shari Clough has also been working with PLI board secretary, professor Christian Matheis, on a new essay recently published in a collection out of Oxford by Wiley-Blackwell that introduces Peace Literacy to the burgeoning field of Public Philosophy. We begin with an overview of peace literacy and then show how it operates as an effective lens through which to read the strengths of various approaches to public philosophy and activism for peace and justice... Email Clough for a pdf of the essay. |
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What is Peace Literacy? In case you missed it last time, this link takes you to a brand new introduction to Peace Literacy by Paul K. Chappell, featuring implications for learning in virtual reality. |
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You can help change the world with your financial support Make a single donation or join our monthly donor program for greater impact and special Peace Literacy updates. Your giving will help fund the development of new curriculum and support materials, our VR work with youth-placed-at-risk here in the U.S. and in the Middle East, and our ongoing research into the most effective ways to teach peace skills in both traditional and VR classrooms. Our world needs Peace Literacy now more than ever. |
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