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This Facing History & Ourselves ELA Series for Canadian educators features strategies and resources, current scholarship, and opportunities for dialogue that centre student learning and engagement through diverse texts. Workshops are intended for grade 6-12 English Language Arts educators.

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Examine the historical legacy of racism and its continuing challenges today. Educators acquire tools for facilitating discussion on this topic within Jewish educational settings.

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The global pandemic has magnified deep structural and historical inequities. Listen to a conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera, national educational leader and Dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, where we hear his reflections on the state of education today and what it means to support social justice and be an anti-racist educator.

An educator lectures from the front of a classroom surrounded by students sitting in a circle.

Professional Learning

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Explore how we can engage with our history, reflecting on how and who we choose to remember, and how we can make the lessons of history feel relevant today.

Professional Learning

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During this webinar, we discussed the challenges schools face when confronting the persistence of racism and antisemitism and provided resources to help you respond to hatred in your schools.

Professional Learning

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Explore the gendered nature of colonization and genocide in Canada, with particular reference to the histories of Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirited and transgender people.

Installation by survivors and family of MMIWG.

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Explore the motivations, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, the European refugee crisis of the 1930s, and the Holocaust. The webinar draws on Facing History’s innovative approach to historical inquiry and groundbreaking new sources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's special exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust.

Black and white photo of mass demonstration.

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What pedagogical approaches exist to empower educators and their students to analyze, navigate, and challenge racial injustice? Listen to a conversation with education scholars Dr. Daren Graves and Dr. Scott Seider, where we explore mindsets and practices for schooling for critical consciousness.

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Free and fair elections are the foundation of all democracies. The US Voting Rights Act of 1965 established protections for all Americans, especially for Black Americans. However the 2013 Supreme Court decision Shelby County v Holder dismantled key elements of the Voting Rights Act and voter suppression efforts are ongoing across the country.

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Watch this conversation with journalist and author Eli Saslow to learn how white-supremacist ideas migrated from the far-right fringe to the streets of Charlottesville and beyond.

Chalk on bricks on the sidewalk that says "End White Supremacy"

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This webinar explores the many questions faced by educators in the wake of the events in Parkland, Florida.

Organizers Cameron Kasky, left, and Jackie Corin, student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School address fellow students before boarding buses in Parkland, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, to rally outside the state capitol. The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state's Republican-controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun-control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider.

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This webinar examines how to use images to support middle school students’ understanding of key themes in the history of the rise of the Nazis and models teaching strategies geared toward helping middle school students analyze historical images.

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Supercharging Student Engagement: ELA Workshop Series for Canadian Educators

Race and Equity in the Jewish Educational Context

Race, Equity, and the State of Education: A Conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera

Remembering Our Past: Reflecting on How We Teach History

Responding to Hate in Your School

Restoring the Balance: A Short History of Gendered Colonization in Canada

Rethinking America and the Holocaust

Schooling for Critical Consciousness: A Conversation with Scott Seider and Daren Graves

The Struggle for Racial Justice and Voting with Dr. Carol Anderson

After Charlottesville: How Uncomfortable Conversations Can Overcome Hate

Student Agency After Parkland

Teaching About the Holocaust in Middle School Classrooms: Teaching the Rise of the Nazis through Images