Cleveland Videos
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Students Map Bully Zones to Create a Safer School |
Students at Orange High School in Pepper Pike, Ohio, map their school to locate the spaces where bullying takes place. After identifying the "bully hotspots," students create a flash freeze demonstration to raise awareness about bullying, and open the conversation about how to create a safer school. This “Not in Our Schools” project was developed in a History and Democracy class based on Facing History and Ourselves. Learn more about Not in Our School |
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"I Had Come Face to Face with Evil": Leon Bass Talks about his Experiences of Racism |
Leon Bass, a retired educator, describes his encounters with racism when he volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1943, and his anger when the people he was to protect and defend let him know that he "wasn't good enough" to be treated as an equal. Upon seeing inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after its liberation, he realized the extreme that being "not good enough" could take. He returned home determined to get an education despite the discrimination he faced, and to fight against that discrimination. As a high school principal he witnessed the impact a Holocaust survivor had on his students, and was inspired to share his personal story. Bass speaks at the Facing History and Ourselves 2010 Cleveland benefit dinner. |
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Students Teach Students to Stand Up to Bullying |
At Shaw High School in East Cleveland, OH, students in Lori Urogody-Eiler's Facing History and Ourselves class mentor younger students in how to be an upstander, not a bystander, when faced with bullying and intolerant acts. |
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Lakewood is Changing |
Joe Lobozzo of Lakewood High School near Cleveland, Ohio, teaches the course "Human Rights and Conflict,” based on a Facing History and Ourselves curriculum. Watch Joe and his student bring their classroom exploration of identity and citizenship to life as they take to the streets with a video cam, and get their neighbors to open up in honest conversation about their changing town. |
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Choosing to Participate on WKYC, Cleveland |
WKYC's Kim Wheeler toured Facing History and Ourselves' nationally acclaimed multimedia exhibit Choosing to Participate with Facing History staff and local high school students at its launch in Cleveland. |
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Cleveland Upstanders: Portraits of Courage |
Each day our friends, neighbors and family members make decisions, large and small, that help create positive change in our world. See activists talk about what it means to be an upstander as part of Facing History and Ourselves' Choosing to Participate exhibition on display through February 2010 at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland. |
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Teacher Greg D Speaks at Cleveland '08 Benefit Dinner |
Greg D., a Facing History teacher, speaks about the organization's challenge to its teachers and students: to take seriously one's choices, actions and attitudes.
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Perception: Jonathan L reads his poem |
Last spring Jonathan wrote a poem called "Perception" about how prejudice influences our decisions about helping others. It won a regional poetry contest sponsored by the Cleveland Playhouse. Jonathan then went on to participate in a national contest and placed 12th. |
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Student Sunni W. Speaks at the 2007 Cleveland Benefit Dinner |
Sunni W. speaks at the 2007 Cleveland Benefit Dinner about what she has learned as a Facing History student.
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Student Kevin F.at the 2007 Cleveland Benefit Dinner |
Kevin F., a Facing History and Ourselves student, speaks at the 2007 Cleveland Benefit Dinner about what he learned in his Facing History class.
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