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Curriculum Corner Vol. 7
Your portal to sharing innovative approaches to teaching
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Welcome
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Gender-Based Violence in the Media
How to Approach the Topic with Youth
Chris Brown's attack on Rihanna
and the wider issue of gender-based violence
have hit the media like wildfire. Everyone is
talking about the issue, even Oprah!
What are teens thinking about the attack? It
surprised us at Scenarios USA that many
teens felt that Rihanna
brought this on herself since "she provoked and
initiated the fight." and that Chris "is the
victim here
since he was brought up in a violent home
where his
own mother was abused." Other teens said
there is never a good reason for domestic
abuse. Clearly, the attack helped to bring
the pressing issue of gender-based violence
out in the open and it can no longer be ignored.
To help teens talk about this issue Scenarios
USA just released Bitter
Memories , a short film
which addresses gender-based violence and the
larger issue
of masculinity. Rob is a young man who grows
up watching his father abuse his mother. When
jealousy brings Rob face to face with his own
violent tendencies toward women, he confronts
his father's behavior so he can learn how to
be un hombre vero.
Along with a great cast, an excellent writer, Mariella
Zavala and
veteran Director, Joshua Marston (Maria,
Full of Grace), the Bitter Memories
DVD comes with a
lesson plan in order to get
teens talking and writing about this issue.
Buy Bitter Memories now
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National Day of Silence
April 17 is the National Day of
Silence. This day brings
attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying
and harassment in schools.
Use our film Who
I Am with your teens to
start an open discussion about tolerance and
respect. Find out more
about the Day of Silence here.
Buy Who I Am now
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Scenarios USA on the Road
My colleague Naela El-Hinnawy (right) and
Debbie Rogow of the Population Council (left)
just presented our program evaluation
results at the Society for Adolescent
Medicine Conference in Los Angeles, CA on
March 25th and at
the National
School Boards Association Conference in
San Diego, CA,
on April 6th.
To those of you who attended the CDC DASH
conference in Bethesda, MD--thank you for
stopping
by our exhibition booth and introducing
yourselves. It's
always great to meet our readers and viewers
and get that
one-on-one feedback. What a great conference,
thanks again to DASH for inviting us and
making us
feel so welcome!
Special Screening Soiree for LA Unified
School Districts and LA
Mayor's Office
Thanks to Ric Loya and
Tim Kordic of the LAUSD for joining us to host a
screening of our films MANchild
and Reflections
at the Directors Guild of America in
Hollywood. MANchild's youth writer
Earlaina Kemp and
director Rawson Marshall Thurber
(Dodgeball) presented a Q&A, making
the event a great success!
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Scenarios USA on NACCHO Webcast
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E-MCH Webcast: "Health Education in the 21st Century: Embracing Web-based and Emerging Technologies"
I'll be presenting at this webcast. The goal
of this webcast is to highlight innovative
ways organizations are reaching youth with
health messages. This webcast will provide an
overview of social media tools and highlight
examples from several youth-led and
youth-inspired initiatives. Participants will
learn about the changing face of health
education and how local health departments
can use social networking sites such as
YouTube, Facebook, and MySpace to connect
with youth.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
3:00 - 4:30 pm (Eastern)
2:00 - 3:30 pm (Central)
1:00 - 2:30 pm (Mountain)
12:00 - 1:30 pm (Pacific)
Register here for the webcast
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Scenarios USA on Changemakers
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We are proud to be part of Changemakers: the
world's first global online "open source"
community that competes to surface the best
social solutions, and then collaborates to
refine, enrich, and implement those
solutions. Changemakers begins by providing
an overarching intellectual framework for
collaborative competitions that bring
together individual social change initiatives
into a more powerful whole.
Check out Changemakers here
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National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Eighth Annual National Day to Prevent Teen
Pregnancy Takes Place May 6, 2009
Use our film The
Choices We Make to get your
teens talking about the importance of
avoiding unplanned
pregnancy and parenthood. Also, have your
teens visit the National Campaign's
new teen
website -- www.stayteen.org
-- and take a short, scenario-based "quiz"
that asks young people what they would do in
a number of sexual situations.
Click here for more ideas on how to promote this day
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See you next month!
Kind regards,
Ernestine
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