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Swastikas in the classroom

Our own past failures to act with moral courage can drive our empathy for others and stir us to future action. In this viewing, students respond to Irshad Manji’s description of how a failure of courage created a lifelong desire to speak up in the face of bigotry.

   Video

   20 minutes

   By: Principled Innovation® (PI)

   Educator-prep | K-12 educators

  Facilitation guide

Making connections:

Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

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