American Red Cross
and Exploring Humanitarian Law
The American Red Cross and the Pearson Foundation provide digital-arts focused professional development workshops for middle- and high-school teachers in regional workshops across the United States. These intensive hands-on sessions enable teachers and staff who have adopted the American Red Cross’ Exploring Humanitarian Law curriculum to integrate digital arts and digital film-making into their classroom lessons.
Teachers who participate in these workshops are also eligible to take part in Pearson Foundation hosted Digital Arts Classroom Residencies. In these week-long sessions, students making use of the same curriculum have the opportunity to document what they’ve learned while using the latest personal computers, digital video cameras, movie-making software. The results will be shared later this year with teachers and students nationwide as the Exploring Humanitarian Law curriculum is made available online at the American Red Cross website.
Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL) is a teacher curriculum produced by the International Committee of the Red Cross in association with the Education Development Center. It meets national social studies standards for high school and is currently being implemented in nearly 70 countries. EHL was originally produced by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in association with the Education Development Center, Inc., and in collaboration with the American Red Cross and other partner members of the International Red Cross.
The Pearson Foundation is currently adapting these materials to an online training environment for use among the American Red Cross’ national network of teachers and educators.
