Facing History and Ourselves

June is Pride Month

This month we celebrate Pride Month and highlight resources to help you celebrate stories of resilience and resistance in the LGBTQIA+ community and center the experiences, needs, and perspectives of LGBTQIA+ people in your classrooms all year long.

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Honoring Juneteenth

This week we honor Juneteenth and the freedom struggle. Here are 7 books Facing History staff are reading to deepen our learning on the many meanings of Black liberation, progress & resistance.

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Summer Professional Development

This summer we’re offering a dynamic set of virtual professional learning experiences for educators including seminars, workshops, webinars, and online courses. Registration is now open — click to get all the details:

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