San Francisco Bay Area

Since the San Francisco Bay area office opened in 1997, more than 1,400 local educators have participated in Facing History's professional development programs. These teachers annually reach over 145,000 middle and high school students each year in over 450 public, independent and religious schools throughout the San Francisco Bay area.
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Update from the San Francisco Office

Summer Seminars Draw Educators From Near and Far
Summer sessions attract local and international teachers.

San Francisco Bay Area Stories

Oceana High School Using “Transitional Justice” in Exploring International Human Rights

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...
Facing History at Alternative Schools

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...

Events

Half the Sky Co-Author Sheryl WuDunn Speaks in San Francisco

05/31/2010
Time is Now for Gender Equality

05/25/2010
Marco Williams to Speak at December 3 Community Conversation

11/23/2009
Witnesses to History Speak in Local Schools

08/19/2009


	Student Cynthia O. Speaks about Facing History at the 2004 San Francisco Benefit Dinner Cynthia O., a student in the FUTURE Academy of Arroyo High School in San Lorenzo, CA, discusses the influence Facing History and Ourselves has had on her life. Through Facing History, Cynthia and her classmates have new appreciation for others and work to change things they see are wrong. As an aspiring teacher, Cynthia looks forward to teaching Facing History in her own classroom some day.
	Student Veronica G. Speaks at the 2009 San Francisco Benefit Dinner Veronica G, a 12th grade student at Lighthouse Community Charter High School in Oakland, CA, speaks about her Facing History class at the 2009 San Francisco Benefit Dinner.
	Teacher Trevor Gardner Speaks at the 2009 San Francisco Benefit Dinner Trevor Gardner, a humanities teacher at City Arts and Technology High School in San Francisco, speaks about his Facing History class at the 2009 Benefit Dinner.

Participating Schools

Facing History is actively used in history, literature, interdisciplinary, government and specially designed Facing History electives all over Northern California. In addition to being incorporated into K-12 schools, Facing History is also taught in colleges and universities.
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