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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.

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Professional Learning

Teaching the Reconstruction Era for CPS Educators

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Chicago, IL
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. This event will be hosted in person.
FHAO Educator at Seminar
Professional Learning

Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: Moving Beyond the Curriculum to Explore Ordinary People

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Virtual
Gain ideas and inspiration for how to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in your classroom.
Picture of Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany.
Professional Learning

Intersecting Histories: Wartime North Africa and the Holocaust

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Virtual
Join UCLA professors Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum, as they discuss the experiences of North African Jews before World War II as well as the history of the Holocaust and North Africa. 
Picture of Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum
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

Holocaust and Human Behavior

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Virtual
This online course includes teaching strategies about the Holocaust and the themes of ethics and responsibility.
Two Holocaust and Human Behavior books are stacked on a table and the background is blurred out.
Professional Learning

A New Approach to Teaching the Reconstruction Era

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Virtual
During this course, you will learn to teach about the Reconstruction era using an approach that helps students connect this history to the choices they make today.
Picture of Reconstruction Books
Community Event

We are Facing History: Personal Stories, Identities, and our Connected Past

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Virtual
A Community Conversation with Tiya Miles and Nicka Sewall-Smith, presented in partnership with Ancestry®.
Portrait of Dr. Tiya Miles and Nicka Sewal-Smith.
Professional Learning

Teaching the Holocaust Through Literature

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Chicago, IL
This workshop introduces Facing History's interdisciplinary framework for teaching the Holocaust through literature. In this workshop, we will examine ways to integrate primary source documents with different Holocaust memoirs appropriate for both middle and high school students. This event will be hosted in person.
Picture of educators speaking.
Professional Learning

Addressing Contemporary Racial and Religious Hatred With Your Students

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Virtual
Join us for an introduction to our new mini-units which support your students to have safe and constructive conversations on Contemporary Islamophobia and Antisemitism. 
Student writing in a workbook
Professional Learning

Renew and Restore: Poetry with Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Virtual
Join us for the first in an exciting new series designed to provide renewal and restoration for teachers.
Photo of Pádraig Ó Tuama
Professional Learning

A New Approach to Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird

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Virtual
This course introduces educators to Teaching Mockingbird, which incorporates civic education into an exploration of Harper Lee's novel.
Students in classroom reading books
Professional Learning

Explorations: Building Learning Communities through SEL

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Virtual
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.
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