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  • Choosing to Participate Exhibit Touches Many in the Immigrant Community
    "As an ESOL [English for Speakers of Other Languages] teacher, it is not always easy to find cultural or educational venues that are both easily understandable and intellectually challenging," says Anne Erde.  "The 'Choosing to...
  • A Democracy Classroom
    By Jocelyn Stanton Jocelyn Stanton teaches Humanities at Boston International High School in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Here she reflects about a transformative moment with one of the students in her Humanities 4 class of juniors and seniors...
  • Fernando Reimers: Harvard Professor and Director of the Intenational Education Policy Program
    Understanding how teachers and schools can best prepare students for democratic citizenship is one of Ford Foundation Professor Fernando Reimers' main research goals. Impressed by Facing History's success in developing tolerance, he has helped...
  • Anne Sheldon
    Anne Sheldon first studied Facing History in an eighth grade Holocaust unit and became more involved by participating in the New England region's Student Symposium this past year, where students from Boston area high schools gathered to discuss...
  • Jinx Watson Connects Literature to Students' Lives
    As a professor working with pre-service teachers and future librarians, Jinx Watson hopes her students will reflect upon the lives of the children they will serve in their careers "I encourage my students to think about how can we make the...
  • Holocaust Survivor Makes Impression in Online Course
    In March 2006, 50 teachers from around the U.S. and the world who were taking Facing History and Ourselves' 8-week online course, Holocaust and Human Behavior, participated in a moving conference call with poet and Holocaust survivor Sonia...
  • New England Students Create Toolkits for Prevention
     Each and every one of us has the power to make a difference. That's what Sarah F. has come to believe after taking Adrianne Billingham's yearlong Facing History course at Lexington High School in New England. Sarah has translated what she learned...
  • A New England Teacher Works with English Language Learners
    Miriam Morgenstern got her Master's in TEFL-teaching English as a foreign language-in 1982 and started teaching adult ESL students. She has taught at Lowell High School for the past nine years. At Lowell, Miriam teaches 11th grade history to...
  • Wentworth Professor Teaches Facing History for More Than 20 Years
    Joanne Tuck is a seasoned teacher who has spent the last 25 years as a professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. In 1984 she introduced a course titled "Facing History and Ourselves," which has since become one of the...