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Building Empathy

Students Explore Dark Chapter of California History

By Sehba Sarwar On a cold Monday morning in mid-April, 18 Blair High School and Pasadena High School students alongside seven adults boarded a charter bus out of Pasadena for an overnight trip to Manzanar Historic National Site, one of the 10 concentration camps that the U.S. government created in…...

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A Gift and an Inspiration to Me

— Banner photo of Liliana Valenzuela with student-teachers, DLIP instructor Jesus Cobian, PUSD administrator Jose Ortega, and PEF Student Engagement Manager, Sehba Sarwar; all photos by Kayte Deioma...

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Civil Liberties: Seeing the Past in the Present

by Sehba Sarwar In late January 2023, three weeks before the eightieth anniversary of US President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, 250 students from all five Pasadena Unified high schools boarded school buses – over a span of three days – to explore Little Tokyo and participate in guided tours…...

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