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 * //Confronting Injustice,//** a joint effort by the Anne Frank House and, in this instance, the New Brunswick Department of Education, is a project that builds on earlier experiences with the international project //Understanding Diversity//, which took place in more than 19 countries, linking students and classrooms across the globe. The present project will take place in multiple countries as well, connecting communities with often times very different histories and cultures. During the project, each group of students will be connected with students elsewhere by means of ‘twinning’, sometimes on the other side of the planet. Mariela Chyrikins, the day-to-day project coordinator, will provide all country coordinators with the pairing information.

//Confronting Injustice// also builds on the Learning Circle approach. Learning Circles are **highly interactive, project-based virtual exchange programs** among a small number of schools located in different countries. …..The activities are demanding and challenging, and will require collaboration among students within classrooms and across national borders. A difference in this project with the traditional learning circle approach is that students will be asked to go into their communities, conduct actual interviews, give presentations in class and create an on-line exhibition.

All activities will lead to a final product, which is an on-line exhibition focusing on what students think is the most appropriate response to injustices perpetrated by their peers and what steps they think could be taken to make their school and/or community a safer and better environment for all. These views will be translated into a strategy that they think will be effective in ‘confronting injustice’. The strategy will be developed with the advice and recommendations of the partner school abroad. **The internet will play a major role in the project.** Students will communicate with each other to conduct research and develop materials themselves. It is important for all participants to realize that joining the project implies a commitment to meeting the various deadlines contained in the project. If these deadlines are not met, the final product will also remain incomplete. This would be de-motivating for the students and frustrating for your partner school.

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