All Community Read
Resources and events that help bring educators, students, and community members together to experience the power of shared reading.
We are heartbroken to learn about the passing of disability rights activist Judy Heumann. Thank you for being a friend to Facing History and for changing the world.
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Literature has the power to nurture our capacity for empathy and to strengthen our communities. Our All Community Read events harness this power and bring together people from across our network – educators, students, staff, and supporters – to build shared understanding, create a shared experience, and open up conversations that connect to our mission and work.
For the 2022-23 school year, we have selected Judith Heumann’s memoir, Being Heumann, an Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, and its companion young adult adaptation, Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution, as the texts for our All Community Read. Throughout the year, we will be hosting a series of events and sharing resources that will support educators as they bring Heumann’s story into their classrooms.
Change never happens at the pace we think it should. It happens over years of people joining together, strategizing, sharing, and pulling all the levers they possibly can.
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Judith Heumann
Learning for Everyone
We will be offering professional learning events for educators and special virtual discussions for students, supporters, and members of our learning community throughout the year to support this All Community Read, including a virtual author keynote with Judy Heumann.
Get started with an on-demand introduction to Heumann’s memoir.
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About the Books
Whole School-Read Planning Guide: Coming of Age in a Complex World
This planning guide will help you design and implement a Coming of Age Whole-School Read that centers students’ voices and experiences.
Coming of Age in a Complex World
Developed for grades 6–12, this modular collection invites students to explore the complexity of identity and develop a sense of agency as they reflect on what it means to grow up in the world today.
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Wonder: A Whole-School Read Planning Guide
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Get tips for planning your whole-school read of the young adult novel Wonder. This guide provides direction on how to structure classroom discussions and includes pre- and post-reading activities. It also features a "write your own precept" template for use in a final school-wide activity.
Teaching Brown Girl Dreaming
Teach a unit on Jacqueline Woodson's coming-of-age memoir in verse that invites students to reflect on their own experiences and identities.
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