Historian Alan Berolzheimer will lead three discussion sessions using recorded videos from our Democracy 20/20 Fall Conference. Educators are invited to attend all of these facilitated sessions, free of charge, to discuss the conference themes and connections, using supplemental advance readings to explore and share potential classroom applications. Please review the recorded session being considered, read the advance materials, and come prepared for a lively discussion!

Session Two Video

Amherst College psychology professor Catherine Sanderson examines the factors that lead most of us to stay silent in the face of bad behavior, and how this tendency to stay silent allows such acts to continue. Sanderson also provides practical strategies that we can all use to speak up and take action. Sanderson also provides practical strategies that we can all use to speak up and take action.