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2008 Chicago Benefit Dinner | Page | 03/24/2008 - 22:05 |
2008 Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award HonoreesRobert Wood Mitchell Elementary School, Chicago Robert Wood, who teaches 8th grade at Mitchell Elementary School, is working with Facing History's Choices in Little Rock unit for the second year. | News | 07/10/2008 - 22:18 |
A Problem from Hell: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Part 1Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses crimes against humanity and the dynamic of generalized versus particular responses. | Video Clip | 03/13/2008 - 11:28 |
A Problem from Hell: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Part 2Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses the continuum of possible intervention by nations when observing genocide in the world. | Video Clip | 03/13/2008 - 11:24 |
A Problem from Hell: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Part 3Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, describes the paralyzing nature of genocide and its effect on intervention. | Video Clip | 03/13/2008 - 11:30 |
A Problem from Hell: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Part 4Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses the Genocide Convention and the genesis of the term "genocide," coined by Rafael Lemkin in 1944. | Video Clip | 03/13/2008 - 11:16 |
Albie Sachs, Freedom FighterAlbie Sachs, Justice of the Constitutional Court in South Africa, describes his elation after surviving an attempt on his life when he was fighting for freedom in that country. Sachs speaks at a Facing History and Ourselves community event. | Video Clip | 06/19/2008 - 11:11 |
Author James Fallows Discusses War and Civil SocietyChicago, Illinois - On April 4th, over 300 people attended a Community Conversation with Atlantic Monthly correspondent James Fallows at the Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center as part of the One Book, One Chicago initiative. | News | 03/28/2008 - 14:24 |
Building Community in a Chicago Classroom"The excitement in the room was palpable . . . .There are kids who have never once raised their hand to volunteer to speak. Today, virtually every hand was in the air . . ." Facing History helps teachers master important skills in classroom pedagogy, including how to conduct a discussion in which students truly talk and listen to one another and how to establish a classroom atmosphere of trust. | Profile | 02/22/2008 - 15:31 |
Changing School Culture in a Chicago Middle SchoolChicago, Illinois - It has been a time of monumental change at Ames Middle School in the heart of Chicago. When Principal Lorraine Cruz arrived at the school in July 2004, she was the fourth principal in the school's six years and as she says, the school was in turmoil. | Profile | 02/23/2008 - 10:10 |
