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This hub offers a curated collection of resources to support justice-focused teaching in adult education. Explore classroom-ready materials on human rights, the Constitution, immigrant rights, and civic engagement—such as lesson plans from The Advocates for Human Rights, videos from the “We Have Rights” campaign, and activities from the National Constitution Center.

For up-to-date Know Your Rights information and access to legal aid resources for adult learners, please visit the Literacy Action Network (LAN) website.

Immigrants & Refugees
Know Your Rights

“We Have Rights” Videos

Series of 3-5 minute videos discussing how to invoke rights in situations involving ICE officers. Available in 8 languages. Note: Videos use cartoons, not real actors, but still depict arrests and family separations in a dramatic way, so may not be appropriate for all groups.

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Citizenship
Citizenship Prep & Test

Citizenship News

Collection of links to free citizenship test prep materials. (The author also has her own citizenship class textbooks for sale.) The "News" page tracks changes to the N-400 citizenship application form and USCIS administration of the test.

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Branches of Government
Citizenship
Civics

Constitution Center Education Resources

Classroom resources (lesson plans, handouts, videos) from the National Constitution Center for teaching about topics like the First Amendment, judicial review, executive power, etc. Published by a non-partisan nonprofit. Intended for K-12 students but could be adapted for more advanced ABE classes.

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Do You Know Your Bill of Rights?

Activity where students refer to "The Constitution and Rights" section of the Judicial Learning Center's website, which explains the amendments in the Bill of Rights, and fill in a handout with key vocabulary. A good intro to constitutional rights; could be used as a vocabulary activity for high-level ELL or GED students, or a digital literacy activity. Note: This website also has an Educator Center with a variety of additional podcast and video activities, online learning modules, lesson plans, and other resources.

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Human Rights
Immigrants & Refugees

Human Rights Classroom Resources

Collection of lesson plans from The Advocates for Human Rights for various ages of K-12 students, intended to teach about human rights generally and specifically (e.g., rights of migrants, racial discrimination, etc.). Some lessons may not be ideal for all ABE classes, since they were created for children; teachers should use best judgment.

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Community Resources
Immigrants & Refugees
Know Your Rights

Step-by-Step Family Preparedness Plan

Created by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the Family Preparedness Plan can be downloaded as a PDF from their website. Pages 16-19 of the PDF allow individuals to fill in phone numbers and information for emergency contacts, health conditions and medical help, community resources, important documents, etc. This could be done as a class activity, possibly in a computer lab so students can practice searching for information online.

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