Toronto | Facing History and Ourselves
Across Canada teachers are embracing the methodology and professional support that Facing History provides and integrating our program into their classrooms. In partnership with the Toronto District School Board, Facing History developed a Grade 11 course called Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The course was approved by the Ontario Ministry of Education and now more than 500 students in 22 schools are taking the course. Additional school boards will implement the course over the next two years, including Hastings Prince Edward County, Waterloo Region and Hamilton-Wentworth District School Boards.
Since the inception of Facing History’s work in Ontario in 1981, we’ve offered workshops for the former Toronto Board of Education, Thames Valley District School Board, Kitchener-Waterloo (both Catholic and public school boards), Kawartha Pine Ridge School Board, and Hastings Prince Edward District School Board. In addition, we’ve done extensive work with faculties of education at York University, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education-University of Toronto, and Althouse College-University of Western Ontario.
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Canada Office
Facing History and Ourselves
@ Centre for Social Innovation
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite #170
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7
Canada
Office Phone: 416-901-3831
Fax: 416-979-3936
Email Contact: Leora Schaefer, Director, Toronto Office
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An innovative new collaboration taking place in Canada this spring is connecting classrooms and teaching students literacy and performance skills through the study of history and spoken word poetry. “Stand Up, Speak Out,” a four-week program...
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Six Facing History and Ourselves classrooms from four different schools in Toronto are taking part in a pilot project that connects professional artists with students. The topic: using art to understand and memorialize history. The project kicked...
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On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Tides Canada announced that Facing History and Ourselves in Canada was one of the organization’s Top 10 of 2011. Tides Canada is the nation’s largest public foundation dedicated to the environment and social justice. “...
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