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  • A Teacher Asks: What Would You Be Willing To Stand Up For?
    A language arts teacher at Westlake High School in Ohio, Laura Miller created Stand Up, a video (that she uploaded permanently on the popular video hosting site YouTube) featuring participants at the Facing History seminar "Holocaust and Human...
  • I Faced History and Found Myself
    Cleveland, Ohio - "I was known as the class bully, taking my title so far that once I nearly broke a kid's arm," recalled Jonathan Lykes about his behavior in middle school. That changed when Jonathan took teacher Lori Eiler's Facing...
  • Students Come Together to Study Transitional Justice
    For many years, Facing History and Ourselves' scholarship has included researching the history and effects of transitional justice, or the way groups and individuals address past injustices and begin to heal in the aftermath of mass violence. In...
  • Cleveland Teacher Opens Students' Universe of Obligation
    This story comes from Moira Clark, a theology teacher at Magnificat High School in Rocky River, a residential suburb eight miles west of Cleveland: Moira Clark and her teaching partners at Magnificat High School wanted their students to understand...
  • A Cleveland Teacher Integrates Facing History into the Classroom
    Teaching is Sue Capello's third career. She spent 10 years in the military and 10 years as landlord. While she was a landlord in the inner city, her tenants came to her for help on their GEDs, which is what made her realize she could be a teacher...