Curriculum Implementation Partnerships for School Districts

Is your school district interested in encouraging deep learning, fostering student agency, and preparing young people to thrive in a diverse and interconnected world?

Facing History & Ourselves provides a comprehensive approach to implementing our High Quality Instructional Materials and industry-leading Professional Learning resources. District Curriculum Partnerships are rooted in our time-tested pedagogical approach, supporting informed civic responsibility through intellectual rigor, emotional engagement, and ethical reflection. 

Why Partner with Facing History?

Based on nearly 50 years of research, Facing History’s approach is academically rigorous, emotionally engaging, and proven to improve student outcomes. By working with us to provide professional development and ongoing support for teachers to implement our High Quality Instructional Material you can strengthen the integration of social and emotional education, civic education, and equitable educational practices.

Adopting our curriculum helps:

• Students gain critical thinking skills, increase empathy and tolerance, explore civic responsibility, and believe they can make a difference in the world 
• Teachers become more confident and skilled at fostering students’ academic, civic, and social and emotional learning
• Classrooms and schools adopt more equity mindsets, and create the culture and conditions necessary for deep learning.

What’s Included? 

Districts can choose from one of our core social studies or ELA curriculum offerings to focus their partnership on:

• Holocaust & Human Behavior
• The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy
• US History Collection: Democracy and Freedom
• English Language Arts

Each partnership includes three core components: 

1. Professional learning
   Dynamic and engaging staff training for implementing educators to introduce Facing History’s material and provide hands-on guidance for integrating our materials in their classrooms
2. Curriculum
   Fully developed teaching materials and lesson plans, plus detailed teacher and student facing guides to support implementation of Facing History’s curriculum offerings for social studies, ELA, civics, and other humanities units 
3. Ongoing support
   Follow-up coaching with implementing teachers, online office hours with Facing History program staff, and additional self-paced professional learning sessions.

Tailored to Your Needs

Each District Curriculum Partnership can be customized to your district’s needs, including:

• District-specific teaching materials
• Standards-aligned curriculum mapping
• Supplemental professional development on approaches to integrating SEL, Civic Ed, and equitable education practices
• Evaluation and data