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Wooddale High School and Facing History and Ourselves alumna Jayanni Webster spoke to educators, students, donors, and community members last night at the 2012 San Francisco Bay Area Benefit Dinner about her “Facing History journey.” She...
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"If everyone has a story, how do history, society, and culture function in silencing some voices and amplifying others?"'
-Cliff Mayotte, Educational Director of Voice of Witness
“Everyone has a story.” It’s an expression that has taken...
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With her children’s book “One,” award-winning author and illustrator Kathryn Otoshi has managed to fit a lifetime of important lessons onto just 32 sparsely illustrated pages.“I describe it as a number, color and counting book,” Kathryn said by...
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Sonali T. is a tenth grader at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, California. Inspired by a Facing History class and the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, she crafted an award-winning poem out of her encounter with Holocaust survivor testimony. This...
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Facing History and Ourselves has launched an exciting partnership with Voice of Witness, an organization founded by author and publisher Dave Eggers and Dr. Lola Vollen, visiting scholar at the Institute for International Studies, University of...
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“Facing History offers so much in the way of teaching strategies and subject matter, and also in the opportunity to “go deeper” into areas of American history that we rarely have the luxury to explore in depth. As teaching is a second career for me...
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“Here was a program that tied everything together, and in the years since then, I’ve been on a continual learning journey with Facing History and Ourselves. I have attended week-long institutes, workshops, seminars, talks and performances, and even...
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Melissa Fully of Envision Academy for Arts and Technology, Oakland, used the Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award she won to publish a collection of her sophomore students’ writing titled “Universe of Obligation Memoirs.” Following their in-depth...
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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...
