Facing History and Ourselves

Back to School Webinar

Teachers, want to start this school year off building strong connections and an inclusive classroom community? Join us for our Back-to-School webinar and get strategies, activities and ideas for supporting your students and starting the year strong.

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Self-Paced Summer PD

Still looking for meaningful, flexible, and timely summer PD options? Click to get information on our fully-self paced online courses that can help you expand your curriculum and offer new tools & strategies for teaching topics like Civil Rights, the Holocaust, and more. Start anytime!

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Back to School Toolkit

Get ready to start the school year with resources designed to build community and support students’ social-emotional learning. Our Back to School toolkit includes a prep guide for educators, activities for the first days of school, opening and closing routines, and more.

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Teaching About US Elections

With this fall’s mid-term elections beginning to heat up across the country, use this newly curated set of resources to incorporate lessons on Free & Fair Elections, Political Polarization, Voting Rights, and more into your social studies or civics classes.

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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