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Disrupting Public Memory: The Story of the National Day of Mourning

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When Online Hate Speech Has Real World Consequences

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Influence, Celebrity, and the Dangers of Online Hate

Professional Learning

Confronting Hate: Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life

Professional Learning

All Community Read: Teaching Rolling Warrior and Being Heumann

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Old Hatred, New Paradigms: Combating Antisemitism in the Twenty-First Century

All Community Read

Professional Learning

Holocaust and Human Behavior

Professional Learning

A New Approach to Teaching the Reconstruction Era

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Coming of Age in a Complex World

Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.

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We are Facing History

Facing History & Ourselves isn’t only our name, it is our core belief and our guiding mandate. To build a more just and equitable future, we are each called to face our history in all its complexity and to face ourselves.

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John Lewis

Facing History & Ourselves isn’t only our name, it is our core belief and our guiding mandate. To build a more just and equitable future, we are each called to face our history in all its complexity and to face ourselves.

Learn how you can experience Facing History

John Lewis

Civil Rights Leader and Congressman Get Inspired by John Lewis’ Legacy

Dolores Huerta

Facing History & Ourselves isn’t only our name, it is our core belief and our guiding mandate. To build a more just and equitable future, we are each called to face our history in all its complexity and to face ourselves.

Learn how you can experience Facing History

Dolores Huerta

Activist and Upstander Learn How to Stand Up from Dolores Huerta

Elie Wiesel

Facing History & Ourselves isn’t only our name, it is our core belief and our guiding mandate. To build a more just and equitable future, we are each called to face our history in all its complexity and to face ourselves.

Learn how you can experience Facing History

Elie Wiesel

Holocaust Survivor and Author Teach “Night”, Elie Wiesel’s story of survival

George Takei

Facing History & Ourselves isn’t only our name, it is our core belief and our guiding mandate. To build a more just and equitable future, we are each called to face our history in all its complexity and to face ourselves.

Learn how you can experience Facing History

George Takei

Japanese American Incarceration Survivor and Entertainer Examine Difficult History with George Takei

Teach Facing History

Facing History has thousands of researched-based resources, trainings, and ideas on topics, from the Holocaust to the US Reconstruction Era to To Kill a Mockingbird. And that's just the beginning.
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And hopefully, they will always remember what happened to us and make sure that it won't happen again.

Sonia Weitz, Holocaust survivor and poet

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Professional Learning for Educators

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Choices in Little Rock: An Approach to Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

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Virtual
This self-paced online workshop will introduce you to the Choices in Little Rock unit and help prepare you to teach this unit in your classroom.
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Professional Learning

Teaching Red Scarf Girl

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Virtual
This interactive self-paced workshop helps teachers develop a customized plan for teaching Red Scarf Girl informed by Facing History’s approach.
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Professional Learning

Getting Started with Holocaust and Human Behavior

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Virtual
This interactive self-paced workshop will support you in teaching a short unit of study of Holocaust and Human Behavior.
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Professional Learning

Teaching for Equity and Justice in the Context of Jewish Education

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Virtual
This self-paced online workshop has been tailored specifically for educators in Jewish settings as they move to more equitable practices that enable all students to find their voice and civic agency, become critical thinkers, and be fully engaged in their education.
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Professional Learning

Using Facing History in a Canadian History Course

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Virtual
This interactive self-guided course will support you in teaching your Canadian history course with a methodology and accompanying resources that encourage an honest and complex approach to the content.
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Professional Learning

Teaching the History and Legacies of Canada’s Residential Schools

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Virtual
In this facilitated online course, we will explore the history and legacies of Canada’s Residential Schools using primary source texts, survivors’ personal testimonies and live online learning classes that will equip educators to better understand the devastating history and the long-lasting impact of the Residential School system, and how to teach about it.
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Professional Learning

Mini Course: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour (Canada)

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Virtual
In today’s global climate, the urgency of sustaining democratic societies that are pluralistic, open, and resilient to violence is more pressing than ever. Studying the Holocaust allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history while fostering their skills in ethical and moral reasoning, critical analysis, empathy, and civic engagement - all of which are critical habits of mind for sustaining democracy.
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Professional Learning

Teaching Coming of Age in a Complex World: Blended Workshop Series

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Virtual
Experience our approach to teaching Coming-of-Age literature, designed to increase student agency, empathy, critical thinking and literacy skills, and belief they can make a difference in the world. This blended 3-part workshop series, open to educators in Boston and Cleveland, consists of two virtual meetings and one day long in person workshop.
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Professional Learning

Facing History Foundations: Discussing Antisemitism in the Classroom

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Virtual
Learn ways to support students in discussions about antisemitism.
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Professional Learning

Explorations: Building Learning Communities through SEL, Equity, and Civic Education

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Virtual
Registration has closed for this workshop. We have seats available for workshops in 2023. Check our calendar, or contact [email protected] for more information.
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Professional Learning

Choices in Little Rock

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Virtual
We will examine this key moment in U.S. history and learn how to engage students in the issues raised by the American civil rights movement and their implications today.
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Professional Learning

Discussing Violence Against Women in the Classroom

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Virtual
Support your students in discussions about violence against women and gender inequality in a safe and sensitive way. This event is aimed at teachers in the UK.
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Our Impact

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    Facing History students are 94% more likely than their peers to report that their class motivated them to learn.
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    92% of Facing History teachers agree that Facing History helps their students stand up for what they believe even when others disagree.
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    91% of elective teachers agree or strongly agree that their Facing History course promoted their students’ abilities to ground reading, writing, and speaking in evidence from text.
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