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Brought to you by the Hammer Family Foundation, our on-demand webinars cover a wide range of topics including social studies, history, civics, ELA, equity and inclusion, and classroom culture. Many of our webinars qualify for professional development credit.
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Professional Learning

All Community Read: Introducing Judy Heumann’s Being Heumann and Rolling Warrior

Online
In this webinar, we introduce educators to Judith Heumann’s 2021 memoir, Being Heumann, an Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist and the young adult version: Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution.
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Community Event

We Are Facing History: Civics & 21st Century Democracy

Online
Dr. Danielle Allen and Dr. Peter Levine discuss the necessity of fostering active civic participation and ways we can work across differences and break down polarization to build a stronger democracy.
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Professional Learning

Exploring ELA Text Selection with Julia Torres

Online
Listen to #DisruptTexts founder Julia Torres about taking a critical lens to text selection in ELA classrooms.
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Professional Learning

Perpetrator Behavior in Nazi Germany: A Conversation with Dr. Edward Westermann

Online
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Edward Westermann focusing on his research around perpetrator behavior in Nazi Germany.
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Professional Learning

Make Good the Promises of Reconstruction: A Conversation and Virtual Exhibition Tour with Candra Flanagan

Online
Listen to this recorded conversation with Candra Flanagan, Director of Teaching and Learning at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, as we explore the museum’s exhibition, “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies.”
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Professional Learning

Teaching Reconstruction: A Conversation with Dr. Kidada Williams

Online
Join us for this recorded conversation with writer and historian, Dr. Kidada Williams, as we discuss her research on African Americans’ fight for liberty and equality during and after the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
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Professional Learning

Starting the School Year With Connection and Community

Online
Explore teaching strategies and flexible resources designed to help you begin getting to know your students and facilitate the process of creating an open, supportive, and reflective classroom community.
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Professional Learning

Getting Started with Holocaust and Human Behavior

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Online
This interactive self-paced workshop will support you in teaching a short unit of study of Holocaust and Human Behavior.
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Professional Learning

Teaching Red Scarf Girl

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Online
This interactive self-paced workshop helps teachers develop a customized plan for teaching Red Scarf Girl informed by Facing History’s approach.
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Professional Learning

Choices in Little Rock: An Approach to Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

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Online
This self-paced online workshop will introduce you to the Choices in Little Rock unit and help prepare you to teach this unit in your classroom.
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Professional Learning

Becoming A Multiracial Democracy

Online
Author Eddie Glaude Jr. discusses how we can choose to “begin again” and realize a multiracial democracy in this moment of moral reckoning.
Headshot of Eddie Glaude, Jr, an American historian.
Professional Learning

Teaching for Equity and Justice: A Conversation with Linda Darling-Hammond

Online
Explore the historical roots of current inequities, the role of professional and personal learning opportunities for educators, and the importance of integrating social-emotional learning and civic education to empower all students.
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Professional Learning

Transforming Schools: Empowering Student Voice and Civic Participation

Online
Learn ways to empower students to find their voice, a framework for youth participation, and examples of civic participation.
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Professional Learning

Using Essential Questions: Making Connections for Deep Learning in Jewish Settings

Online
This webinar explores how Facing History’s approach to essential questions helps students make authentic connections between Judaic content and the world around them, and how these questions can deepen students’ learning and increase their engagement on both an emotional and intellectual level.
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Professional Learning

Who Will Write Our History: A Conversation with Filmmaker Roberta Grossman

Online
During this webinar we explore our lessons on Who Will Write Our History, learn about educational resources on the Warsaw ghetto at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and listen to a discussion with the filmmaker on her visionary film.
Director Roberta Grossman with actors Karolina Gruszka (Judyta Ringelblum) and Piotr Głowacki (Emanuel Ringelblum) on set in Poland.