On-Demand Learning

Author Eddie Glaude Jr. discusses how we can choose to “begin again” and realize a multiracial democracy in this moment of moral reckoning.

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

Watch a special panel discussion about the FRONTLINE PBS film Whose Vote Counts, which explores an issue critical to the 2020 election: access to voting.

Listen to writer and educator Dr. Clint Smith as he shares his poetry and reflections on working for justice, equity, and civic agency in our schools.

Watch this webinar to hear three classroom teachers discuss their best practices, reflect on classroom successes and challenges. Throughout, they share their tried-and-true Facing History teaching strategy favorites, strategies you can implement in your classroom right away.

This webinar features a conversation with Ambassador Samantha Power about educating young people to be upstanders for a more humane and just world.

This 30-minute webinar introduces you to our current events resources designed to foster thoughtful classroom conversations and build your students’ capacities for critical thinking, emotional engagement, ethical reflection, and civic agency.

This webinar explored how to define your school's vision of advisory, and consider how advisory helps to build community within the classroom and school at large.

What does it mean to be civically engaged today? How can students effectively leverage the power of digital tools to make civic change? During this webinar, we are in conversation with Henry Jenkins, Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California, where we discuss the relationship between technology, learning, and civic engagement.

Listen to a lively community conversation featuring Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nicholas Kristof, 300th Anniversary University Professor and former Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow, educator and Facing History alum Janae McMillan, and legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy to examine what’s next for US democracy, the role of teachers and education, and the future of youth civic participation.

With more than 250 million migrants around the globe, including more than 65 million refugees, migration has sparked intense partisan debate, inspired advocacy, and changed the face of cities, neighborhoods and schools. In this webinar, we explore powerful human stories behind this global trend in conversation with Sonia Nazario, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Enrique’s Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother.

An introduction to our Standing Up for Democracy unit, which provides resources and strategies to support Citizenship and PSHE education in the classroom.