Summer break is right around the corner! As you prepare for your time away from the classroom, we encourage you to include joining Facing History & Ourselves’ summer professional development offerings in your plans. Our team has created an array of learning opportunities to help you make the most of your time and invest in your professional growth.
Whether you’re spending your summer road-tripping, jet-setting, or staying close to home, you’ll find a session that meets your needs, including self-paced and live learning experiences. You’ll come away from all of our sessions with:
- Access to innovative teaching strategies and tools that will prepare you to respond to the unique and ever-changing challenges students are facing;
- New connections with educators who share your commitment to building safe, inclusive classrooms for all students to thrive.
Explore all of our summer professional development opportunities by topic.
Social Studies
Sign up for our summer professional development events for social studies teachers. Discover new teaching methods, learn about identity, history, and fairness, and network with other history and social studies educators.
Join us for an exploration of our new collection of US History resources that develop historical inquiry skills and emphasizes students’ capacity for civic agency.
This interactive workshop features instructional resources that help foster civil discourse and use lessons of history to explore civic participation today.
In this facilitated course, learn teaching strategies about the Holocaust and the themes of ethics and responsibility.
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English Language Arts
Join us for our ELA professional development opportunities this summer! Learn new teaching methods, examine familiar texts in new ways, prepare to invite your students to explore big questions about themselves and others through literature, and connect with other ELA teachers.
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Coming of Age in a Complex World: An English Language Arts Workshop
Wednesday, June 11 – Thursday, June 12
Bowling Green, OH
Explore hands-on strategies to teach coming-of-age texts and literature, centering students’ lived experiences as young adults. This event will occur in-person.
Explore hands-on strategies to teach coming-of-age books and literature, centering students’ identities and lived experiences as young adults.
Join us as we delve into our newest collection for ELA educators. Highlighted will be stories that consider the complicated world of belonging.
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School and District Leaders
We invite school and district leaders to investigate summer professional development opportunities tailored to the unique needs of leaders in education. Our PD is designed to help you improve academic outcomes and facilitate measurably transformational learning experiences at school and district levels. You'll also learn strategies and connect with resources that nurture a more inclusive and just learning environment while promoting diversity and community within your school.
Gain a deeper understanding of the legacy of educational injustice in the US and receive tools to help you create more inclusive and just teaching practices.
Join us to learn ways to build more caring, equitable, inclusive school communities that drive better outcomes for the students.
Send a team to learn how Facing History can help you create thriving, academically-successful schools and classrooms.
