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Facing History's website recently featured an article from the Pacifica Tribune about Oceana High School (OHS) teacher Laurie Hughes, a Margot Stern Strom award winner and long-term in-depth Facing History teacher. But what the article doesn’t...
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Facing History program staff in the Bay Area are increasingly engaging with teachers and students from such alternative schools as juvenile justice facilities, continuation schools and community day schools to leverage the power of Facing History’s...
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In schools where in-depth Facing
History courses exist, and teachers "go long and go deep" on issues
such as Holocaust and Human Behavior, Race and Membership in American
History, Transitional Justice, and other topics, Facing History is...
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Can one class in high school influence someone's career path? In Jemma McPherson's life, this seems to be the case. She was profoundly influenced by a theology class she took her junior year at Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco.
In...
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A Facing History course introduced in the 2004-2005 school year at St. Francis High School in Mountain View, California inspired students to see how they could make a difference in their community. Teacher Heather Washington's course on Holocaust...
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"Facing History
educates me to educate my students toward an understanding of the
issues that matter to them. Facing History revolutionizes my teaching .
. . almost daily!"
-Mark Davis, Sacred Heart Preparatory School
Mark Davis has...
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Teaching the
history of Weimar Germany has taken on new depth in several Facing
History classrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area. At Arroyo High School
in San Lorenzo, Regina Ellis was introduced to Facing History's Weimar Module
during her...
