On-Demand Learning

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.

Amid the upheaval of the global pandemic and worldwide demonstrations against systemic racism, essential questions about equity in education have taken center stage. Dr. John B. King Jr., CEO of The Education Trust and former US Secretary of Education, and Dr. Janice K. Jackson, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, discuss the role of education during moments of national reckoning and the importance of civic agency in our classrooms. This couldn’t be better highlighted than in our unique partnership with Dr. Jackson and the Chicago Public School system, where we are training all middle and high school social science teachers to teach three of our core case studies. This is the first conversation in the year-long Facing History Now: Conversations on Equity and Justice virtual event series.

This webinar explores how to facilitate open and respectful classroom conversations about gender identity.

Learn interdisciplinary teaching strategies to examine the events that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in 1968 through a critical lens.

Explore frameworks for having rigorous, nuanced, and identity-safe conversations about race.

Explore frameworks for having rigorous, nuanced, and identity-safe conversations about race.

Actor and activist George Takei discusses his family’s wrongful incarceration during WWII, and the anti-Asian racism on the rise today.

The global pandemic has magnified deep structural and historical inequities. Listen to a conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera, national educational leader and Dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, where we hear his reflections on the state of education today and what it means to support social justice and be an anti-racist educator.

Examine the historical legacy of racism and its challenging realities in our contemporary lives, and help teachers acquire tools for facilitating discussion on this topic within Jewish educational settings.