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Teaching Red Scarf Girl
Online
Self-paced Workshop
Teaching Red Scarf Girl
This interactive self-paced workshop helps teachers develop a customized plan for teaching Red Scarf Girl informed by Facing History’s approach.
Explorations: Building Inclusive Learning Communities
Online
Workshop
$1,600.00
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
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Explorations: Building Learning Communities through SEL, Equity, and Civic Education
Join us for a new, online team-based professional learning experience including a workshop for teams, a readiness tool for your school, and personalized follow-up meetings. Learn about how Facing History's approach to equity, SEL and civics can transform your school.
This workshop is directed towards design teams of educators from a school or district.
Day One: In Person at The Temple - Tifereth Israel - 8:30am - 4:00pm
Day Two: Online (Zoom Link will be sent) - 9:00am - 3:00pm
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
Democracy at Risk: Holocaust and Human Behavior
In today’s world, questions of how to build and maintain democratic societies that are pluralistic, open, and resilient to violence are more relevant than ever. This two-day workshop will introduce participants to Facing History’s approach to the study of the Holocaust, which enables students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history and fosters their skills in civic engagement, ethical reasoning, critical thinking, and empathy — all of which are critical for sustaining democracy.
Becoming a Facing History School: Jewish Partner Schools Onboarding Gathering
Join us as we welcome new Partner Schools into Facing History and Ourselves’ Jewish Education Partner School Network. What does it mean to be a Facing History Jewish Education Partner School? What are best practices for implementing a Facing History and Ourselves program in your school community? These are some of the questions that we will answer at this onboarding workshop. Facing History Jewish Education staff will introduce incoming school teams to Facing History’s approach and opportunities that come with participation in this network.
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
An Introduction to Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour UK
Explore our Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour unit’ and learn how to help your students wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this catastrophic period of history.
All fees are in US Dollars. We can support payment in some alternate currencies and will handle those once your application is approved.
Schedule:
Wednesday, June 29, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET
Wednesday, June 29, 2022: 7 – 8 PM ET
Thursday, June 30, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET
Teaching for Equity and Justice
Join us for a two-day online learning experience as we examine moments in the history of American education, current systems of inequity, and provide educators with the tools necessary to mitigate these barriers to equity.
From Surviving to Thriving: Creating Equitable Environments Through Emotional Intelligence and Culturally Relevant Practices
Dr. Dena Simmons will discuss how the intersection of emotionally intelligent and culturally-relevant practices can create equitable and welcoming classroom communities, where everyone can learn in the comfort of their skin.
This online course explores the Reconstruction era in the United States and the construction of American identity. This online is directed towards educators in 7th–12th grade US history, humanities, and English language arts teachers and curriculum specialists.
Help students wrestle with the profound moral questions raised by the study of the Holocaust and foster their skills in civic engagement, ethical reasoning, critical thinking, and empathy — all of which are necessary for sustaining democracy.
All fees are in US Dollars. We can support payment in some alternate currencies and will handle those once your application is approved.
Schedule:
Tuesday, July 12, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET
Wednesday, July 13, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET
Thursday, July 14, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET
Teaching Coming of Age in a Complex World
Stories have the power to transform the way young people see themselves and others. 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.
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
Teaching An Inspector Calls in Your Classroom
Prepare your students to be agents of change using J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls.
Genocide Education in the Facing History Classroom
Massachusetts
Workshop
$0.00
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
Genocide Education in the Facing History Classroom: A Professional Learning Opportunity for Massachusetts Educators
With the recent passage of S2557, “An Act Concerning Genocide Education,” Massachusetts educators have been tasked with incorporating genocide and human rights issues into their classrooms. At Facing History, we believe that core to the act of teaching is instilling in young people a sense of agency to stand up to bigotry and hate, and to make choices for a more just and equitable world.
All fees are in US Dollars. We can support payment in some alternate currencies and will handle those once your application is approved.
Schedule:
Monday, July 18: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Tuesday, July 19: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Wednesday, July 20: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Thursday, July 21: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
Help students wrestle with the profound moral questions raised by the study of the Holocaust and foster their skills in civic engagement, ethical reasoning, critical thinking, and empathy — all of which are necessary for sustaining democracy.
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
Confronting a Violent Past: Red Summer in Chicago
Red summer was part of a nationwide wave of racist violence against African Americans that occurred from April to November of 1919. This watershed event is part of our shared past and informs the city’s identity today. Join Facing History for an interactive in-person workshop to engage in discussions about Red Summer in Chicago and how to bring the history to high school classrooms.
9:30 am - 1:00 pm PT
10:30 am - 2:00 pm MT
11:30 am - 3:00 pm CT
12:30 pm - 4:00 pm ET
Youth Voice as Civic Action
How can young people see themselves as an active part of civic society? Join KQED and Facing History for an interactive online workshop exploring the pivotal role of young people in civic engagement. Educators will explore classroom ready resources, activities and tools designed to help students harness the power of civic action and audio storytelling to share their stories and viewpoints with their peers and wider community. This workshop is most applicable for middle and high school educators.
Mini Course: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour
Online
Online Mini-Course
50.00 CAD
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Mini Course: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour
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.
All fees are in US Dollars. We can support payment in some alternate currencies and will handle those once your application is approved.
Schedule:
Monday, July 25: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Tuesday, July 26: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Wednesday, July 27: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Thursday, July 28: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
US History: A New Approach to Teaching the Reconstruction Era
How does society rebuild after extraordinary division and trauma, when the ideals and values of democracy are most vulnerable? Join us as we examine the Reconstruction era and learn to teach about this significant period in US history using an approach that helps students connect this history to their own lives and the choices they make today.
Make Good the Promises of Reconstruction: A Conversation and Virtual Exhibition Tour with Candra Flanagan
Join us in conversation with Candra Flanagan, Director of Teaching and Learning at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), as we explore the museum’s exhibition, “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies.”
12:00–1:00 PM ET
11:00 AM–12:00 PM CT
10:00–11:00 AM MT
9:00–10:00 AM PT
Teaching Reconstruction: A Conversation with Dr. Kidada Williams
Join us in Conversation with writer and historian, Dr. Kidada Williams, as we discuss her research on African Americans’ fight for liberty and equality during and after the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
Explorations: Building Inclusive Learning Communities
Online
Workshop
$1,600.00
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
Explorations: Building Learning Communities through SEL, Equity, and Civic Education
Join us for a new, online team-based professional learning experience including a workshop for teams, a readiness tool for your school, and personalized follow-up meetings. Learn about how Facing History's approach to equity, SEL and civics can transform your school.
This workshop is directed towards design teams of educators from a school or district.
Starting the School Year With Connection and Community
Join us to prepare for the coming school year as we explore teaching strategies and flexible resources designed to help you begin getting to know your students and facilitate the process of creating an open, supportive, and reflective classroom community.
Teaching Jewish Text: A Facing History Approach for Jewish Educational Settings
How can educators In Jewish settings help students critically engage with complex Jewish texts through exploration of human behavior and decision making? This Facing History online workshop will explore the role of perspective-taking, meaningful reflection and building empathy. Educators will gain strategies for providing students with opportunities to form opinions about themes such as power, systems of inequity, and the multiple ways of being human in the world today.
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
A Facing History Approach to Teaching Night
This workshop prepares teachers to interweave a literary analysis of Elie Wiesel’s powerful and poignant memoir with an exploration of the relevant historical context underlying Wiesel’s experience.
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
Teaching for Equity and Justice (Canada)
Across Canada, educators and administrators are acknowledging that schools themselves—both the practice of schooling and the outcomes students are achieving—are not equitable across lines of race and class. Facing History and Ourselves has designed a professional development model to help educators address these troubling and historically rooted disparities.
Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.
Teaching Civil Rights: Exploring the Role of Youth Voice and Participation in the Movement
There is much for today's young people to learn from student civic-political participation in the past. Students have “chosen to participate” in consequential ways at critical moments throughout the past century of US history, particularly during the Civil Rights Movement. Join Facing History for a two day workshop exploring the role of youth activism in the Civil Rights Movement.