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  • Students Find their “Visual Voice” in a Facing History Art Class
    For me, each student's search for a response to the issues discussed in Facing History through the visual arts is, in itself, an amazing journey. I wait for the moment when the student sees that his or her creation stimulates questions, explores the...
  • Promoting Global Understanding: An Interview with Facing History Educators in Russia and America
    The Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award has had a lasting legacy for two teachers– one in Santa Monica, CA, the other in Russia. In 2007, Meredith Louria, who teaches Facing History in both her AP English course and yearlong Facing History seminar at...
  • The Way We See It: L.A. Teens on Immigration
    Facing History students' classroom project results in a photography exhibition on view at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles In the fall of 2008, 73 Los Angeles area high school students participated in a Facing History leadership program...
  • I no longer think, 'My color, my friends'
    A senior at Carson High School, Jessica S. recently spoke at the Los Angeles Benefit about the two-year journey she and her classmates experienced in teacher Merri Weir's Facing History classes. On the first day of class Jessica recalled self-...
  • Teacher of the Year Creates Safe Classroom
    San Diego, CA - Facing History and Ourselves is pleased to announce that Viana Rodriguez, a history teacher at Southwest High School in San Diego, California, was recently voted "Teacher of the Year" at her school. Rodriguez was selected...
  • East Los Angeles Course Examines Educational Inequality
    Is education now on "equal terms" as called for in the landmark 1954 Brown Vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision ending school segregation? This spring, students in Jorge Lopez's "Youth and Justice" course at Roosevelt...
  • A California Teacher's Passion Realized
    Venice, California- decided to become a teacher after her college boyfriend was killed in a drunk-driving accident. This tragic event caused a shift in her perspective. Kraft-Watts wanted to measure her own life's work by the lives she would touch...