Facing History and Ourselves

Processing Current Events with Students

Use our Head, Heart, Conscience Teaching Strategy to facilitate classroom discussions of complex and emotional current events and to help students clarify their relationship to and their perspective on the event.

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Speaking Across Difference

How do we have meaningful discussions with family and friends when we don’t see eye to eye? Use these 5 principles from our partners at The Better Arguments project to help reach across ideological differences & engage in productive dialogue.

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5 Native-Led Podcasts for Media Literacy

Honor Native American Heritage Month & deepen your understanding of Native American life, histories, cultures, and experiences with these 5 podcasts.

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Free Webinar: Antisemitism, Race, and White Supremacy

Join us on December 8 for a free webinar featuring Professor Anthony Appiah and Professor Paola Tartakoff discussing antisemitism, white supremacy, and the ways in which concepts of race continue to feed antisemitic ideologies.

People make choices. Choices make history.

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What We Do

We Support Educators

Teachers can increase student engagement and achievement through Facing History’s innovative approach to civics, social studies, humanities, and language arts education.

We Transform Schools

Our approach to whole-staff professional development, school-wide programming, curriculum sequencing, and more creates school communities committed to issues of ethics, social responsibility, and justice.

We Gather Communities

Facing History convenes community members for meaningful dialogue about today’s most profound and challenging issues. Speakers and topics address what it means to be a citizen in a democratic society and inspire positive change in the world.

How We Do It