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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

Teaching the History and Legacies of Canada’s Residential Schools

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Virtual
In this interactive, facilitated online course, participants join a virtual community to 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 Indian Residential School system, as well as Indigenous communities’ historic and contemporary fight for a promised education.
Cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."
Professional Learning

Explorations: Building More Inclusive Schools with Facing History

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Virtual
Gather a design team and join us to learn how we can help you create transformational change in your school’s approach to teaching, learning, and working together.
Teacher with students in library
Professional Learning

Democracy at Risk: Holocaust & Human Behavior

Virtual
In this workshop, participants will study the fragility of democracy in Weimar Germany, the ensuing Holocaust, and the legacies of this history through an in-depth case study. The first day of this event will be hosted in person.
FHAO Educator at Seminar
Professional Learning

Teaching with Testimony: Learning from Descendant Stories

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Virtual
Join us in conversation with Caren Osten Gerszberg, daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, and Spirit Tawfiq, daughter of Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the “Little Rock Nine,” as we discuss the unique and valuable perspective descendent stories can add to your classroom.
Picture of Facing History teachers.
Professional Learning

Discussing Race in the Classroom with KS3 and KS4 Students

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Virtual
Support your students in engaging with the topic of race in a safe and constructive way.
Picture of students writing in classroom.
Professional Learning

Teaching Japanese American Incarceration & World War II

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This workshop prepares educators to teach about World War II and Japanese American Incarceration through a variety of approachable resources, including memoirs, film, photography. We will examine the circumstances and events leading up to this turbulent point in history with a special focus on U.S.- Japan dynamics.
Three educators sit at a table during a professional learning event.
Professional Learning

Youth Voice as Civic Action

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Virtual
Join us and KQED for a hands-on workshop exploring how young people can make their voices heard through civic action and audio storytelling.
Students engage in classroom discussion.
Community Event

Facing History: A Conversation on Racism, Gentrification, and Education in Let the Little Light Shine

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Chicago, IL
Please join Facing History for a conversation exploring racial justice and civic agency in Chicago, and screening of the award-winning documentary “Let the Little Light Shine”.
Still image from the film Let the Little Light Shine.
Professional Learning

Brave Classrooms: Confronting Bigotry and Hatred

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Virtual
This course is part of the Brave Classrooms Mini-Course Series, giving educators the tools to discuss antisemitism in their school classroom settings.
A person stands with a sign that reads "No Tolerance for Anti-Semitism."
Professional Learning

International Women’s Day and Discussing Gender Inequality with Your Students

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Virtual
As International Women’s Day approaches, support your students to have discussions about gender inequality in a safe and sensitive way.
A female teacher engages with students in a classroom.
Professional Learning

Teaching the US Founding: An Inquiry-Based Approach

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Virtual
Join us as we explore our new C3-aligned inquiry in which students consider the complexities and contradictions in the history of the founding of the US.
Outside of the classroom view of students and teacher.
Professional Learning

World Book Day: Creating a Diverse and Inclusive KS3 Literary Curriculum

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Virtual
Join us as we discuss why there is a need to teach diverse texts as well as how to create a diverse and inclusive literary curriculum that encourages and fosters a love of reading. 
Student reading a book