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We deliver outstanding professional learning for educators and thought-provoking community events. Explore our upcoming events to find one near you or online.

Our on-demand resources are made possible by the Hammer Family Foundation.

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Professional Learning

Discussing Race in the Classroom

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Online
Support your students in engaging with the topic of race in a safe and constructive way.
A student cuts a sheet of paper in a classroom at Skinners' Academy in Londonn
Professional Learning

Bringing Current Events Into The Classroom

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Online
Engaging with current events is an essential part of educating young people to be informed and humane citizens in a democracy. Join us virtually for a workshop where we will explore how to bring unfolding events into the classroom, and model adaptable strategies that foster thoughtful classroom conversations.
A birds eye view of a classroom filled with students in conversation.
Professional Learning

Confronting a Violent Past: Red Summer in Chicago

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Online
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 American past and informs both Chicago and our national identity today.  Join Facing History for an interactive virtual workshop to engage in discussions about Red Summer in Chicago and how to bring the history to high school classrooms.
Picture of Facing History teacher.
Professional Learning

Exposing Racism in Curriculum

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Online
Join us in conversation with author and education professor, Dr. Bree Picower, as we explore possibilities for transforming how teachers think and teach about race and racism in their classrooms.
Photo of Dr. Picower
Professional Learning

Facing History Foundations: Discussing Identity in the Classroom

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Online
Learn ways to support students in discussions about identity and to invite their identities into classrooms. 
New Toronto Students sitting and engaging in discussion at desks
Professional Learning

Explorations: Building Learning Communities through SEL, Equity, and Civic Education

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Online
Join us for this exciting professional learning experience designed for school teams who are looking to integrate social-emotional learning, equity, and civic education. Your school design team will learn how Facing History's approach to SEL, equity, and civics can transform your school’s culture, engage students, and allow educators throughout your school to adopt equity mindsets and practices. This workshop is directed towards design teams of educators from a school or district.
An educator speaks with a group of students sitting around a table.
Professional Learning

Teaching the History and Legacies of Canada’s Residential Schools

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Online
In this facilitated online course, we will explore the history and legacies of Canada’s Residential Schools using primary source texts, survivors’ personal testimonies and live online learning classes that will equip educators to better understand the devastating history and the long-lasting impact of the Residential School system, and how to teach about it.
Cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."
Professional Learning

Defining Genocide: The Attempt to Name and Prevent a Horrific Crime

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Online
In this virtual educator workshop in partnership with the New-York Historical Society, we look to remember the meaning of the word genocide and the conditions that drove a lawyer named Raphael Lemkin to coin this term to describe a horrific crime — a crime that prior to 1944 lacked a name and legal repercussions. By understanding the meaning of the term genocide and the human suffering to which it refers, our students will be able to use it with care while appreciating the need to wrestle with our obligations towards those victimized by a range of human rights violations.
A birds eye view of a classroom filled with students in conversation.
Professional Learning

Re-examining Our History and Learning Lessons from Empire

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Online
In this conversation we will explore the impact of the stories we hear, focusing on those centered around the UK's colonial past, and will reflect on the lessons we can learn from critically reexamining this history.
Image of coins from the British Empire
Professional Learning

The Presence and Absence of Asian America: What Truths Lie Beyond the Headlines

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Online
Join us for a conversation with Asian American Studies scholar and Asian American and Pacific Islander(AAPI) Research Fellow Dr. Janelle Wong and Facing History and Ourselves’ Jasmine Wong as they discuss current data on, and responses to anti-Asian American discrimination and violence. 
Picture of Janelle Wong.
Professional Learning

Teaching the Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy

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Online
How does society rebuild after extraordinary division and trauma, when the ideals and values of democracy are most vulnerable? The Reconstruction era, most commonly viewed as the period from 1865 to 1877, was a monumental struggle for freedom and democracy in the face of violent backlash. The study of the Reconstruction era in American history is essential to an understanding of citizenship and democracy in the United States today. You will learn to teach about the Reconstruction era using an approach that helps students connect this history to their own lives and the choices they make today.
Picture of Facing History teacher.
Community Event

Southeast Benefit Dinner

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Co-Chairs Myra & Reggie Crenshaw, Amy & Thomas Grow, and Dale & Marty Kelman invite you to join us as we celebrate 30 years in Memphis and the Southeast.
Civil Rights mural in background with someone walking on the sidewalk
Professional Learning

Teaching for Equity and Justice

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Online
At this two-day online learning experience, 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.
A number of hands are brought into the center of the picture and stacked on one another.
Professional Learning

Teaching Coming of Age in a Complex World: Blended Workshop Series

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Online
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. This blended 3-part workshop series, open to educators in Boston and Cleveland, consists of two virtual meetings and one day long in person workshop.
New Students engage in discussion in a San Francisco classroom.
Professional Learning

Mini Course: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour (Canada)

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Online
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.
Two Holocaust and Human Behavior books are stacked on a table and the background is blurred out.