20-Year Partnership with Columbia’s Teachers College

As part of a long-standing relationship with Columbia University’s Teachers College, Facing History recently facilitated a two-day Race and Membership workshop at Teachers College in partnership with the school’s Social Studies Education program. Participants explored the ways Americans have defined citizenship at various times in history, and the implications of those definitions for our democracy today.

Participant Luke Bolton, a student in the Social Studies Education program, said he was wowed by the “incredible amount of content covered at a whirlwind pace.” The group explored topics that included boarding schools for Native Americans, the American eugenics movement and the Little Rock Nine, and Brown v. Board of Education.

A Longstanding Partnership: “Careful Attention to Pedagogy and Curriculum”
For nearly 20 years, Facing History and Ourselves has partnered with the students and faculty of Columbia University’s Teachers College, hosting workshops and seminars and other professional development opportunities. “The partnership with Facing History and Ourselves and TC is an important one as it represents a joint activity with a group whose values resonate with ours: upholding social justice and addressing historical trauma with careful attention to pedagogy and curriculum,” said Associate Professor of Social Studies Education William Gaudelli. “We are happy to be continuing this longstanding partnership, now approaching 20 years.”

Read “Social Studies and Education ‘Race and Membership’ Weekend Workshop with Facing History and Ourselves,” by Amy Lombard, on the Teachers College: Arts and Humanities website.

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