Facing History Staff Favorites
Browse these articles for guidance and inspiration as we start the new school year.
Insight
Back to School: Co-Create Your Space to Build Community
by
Alexis Wright
Learn about including your students in imagining their classroom community in the first days of school.
Impact Story
How Facing History Helps Change the World
by
Eran DeSilva
Veteran Facing History educator Eran DeSilva shares her story and talks about how Facing History transformed her teaching practice and sparks community and change.
Insight
5 Teacher Resources for Hispanic American Heritage Month
by
Kaitlin Smith
Facing History shares free teacher resources of lessons designed to help educators bring the richness of Latinx life and history into focus in the classroom.
Insight
6 Resources for Teaching Current Events
by
Kaitlin Smith
Explore classroom resources to help you prepare to teach about current events.
In the News
Essential Teacher Habits for Driving Educational Equity
by
Kaitlin Smith
Facing History colleagues share tips for creating more educationally equitable school communities.
Insight
How to Be an Upstander: How to Find Your Civic Superpower
by
Karen Murphy
This piece offers a number of ideas for getting involved in one’s community and beginning to pinpoint areas where we are each best poised to make an impact.
Insight
Embrace SEL and Trauma Informed Teaching This Year
by
Facing History & Ourselves
Facing History explores the meaning and mechanics of trauma-informed teaching.
Insight
Teaching Coming-of-Age Literature
by
Kaitlin Smith
Facing History explores examples of coming-of-age literature and its connection to our resources.
Insight
Suffrage Matters: 7 Reads on Black Voting Rights and Activism
by
Facing History & Ourselves
One way to deepen our understanding of voting rights is to consider the experiences of people who have been disenfranchised over the course of our nation’s history and into the present.
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Professional Learning
Memphis 1968: Lessons for Today
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Virtual
Learn interdisciplinary teaching strategies to examine the events that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in 1968 through a critical lens.
Insight
March Assemblies
by
Aqsa Islam
Download our assembly PowerPoints for the month of March for use with Key Stage 3 and 4 students.
Impact Story
Lilian Baylis Technology School: An Upstanders Journey
by
Aqsa Islam
Programme Associate Aqsa Islam spent an engaging day with students taking part in our Upstanders: Choosing to Act drop down day.
In the News
Honoring Harry Belafonte by Teaching Civil Rights
by
Grace Ruiter
Build on Harry Belafonte's work toward realizing the full promise of our democracy with these civil rights resources.
Insight
It Takes a Village: The Success of Brown v. Board
by
Kaitlin Smith
The recent 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education reminds us that we must have all hands on deck in the continuing fight for educational equity.
Insight
Summer Learning Happens at Home
by
Leah Shafer
New research suggests that home-based activities and family involvement keeps kids primed for learning all summer.
Insight
The Myth of a Post-Racial Society After the Obama Presidency
by
Jeremy Nesoff
Barack Obama's legacy as the first Black president of the US was shaped in part by the politics, race relations, and legacy of the Reconstruction era.
Featured Resource
Disrupting Patriarchy in the Classroom with Carol Gilligan
by
Kaitlin Smith
Glean insights from Facing History Board of Scholars member Carol Gilligan’s groundbreaking work on gender to disrupt patriarchy in the classroom.
Professional Learning
Race and Equity in the Jewish Educational Context
On-Demand
Virtual
Examine the historical legacy of racism and its continuing challenges today. Educators acquire tools for facilitating discussion on this topic within Jewish educational settings.
Professional Learning
Race, Equity, and the State of Education: A Conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera
On-Demand
Virtual
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.
Professional Learning
George Takei: Standing Up to Racism, Then and Now
On-Demand
Virtual
Actor and activist George Takei discusses his family’s wrongful incarceration during WWII, and the anti-Asian racism on the rise today.
Professional Learning
Critical Reflections about Equity in Education with Dr. John B. King and Dr. Janice K. Jackson
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Virtual
Dr. John B. King Jr., CEO of The Education Trust and former US Secretary of Education, and Dr. Janice K. Jackson, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, discuss the role of education during moments of national reckoning and the importance of civic agency in our classrooms.
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