On-Demand Learning
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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Exploring Immigration: A Conversation with Journalist Sonia Nazario
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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.
New Films to Explore the Holocaust and Human Behavior
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In this webinar, you’ll learn how to integrate the new edition’s video testimonies and original mini-documentaries into your classroom, and get tips for teaching strategies that connect the study of history with ethical reflection and human behavior.
A New Approach to Teaching the Reconstruction Era
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During this webinar, you will be introduced to teaching about the Reconstruction era using an approach that helps students connect this history to their own lives and the choices they make today.
Navigating Difficult Conversations: Talking About DACA and DREAMers
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As educators, what do we need to consider when discussing DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and the preceding DREAM Act, in class? This webinar provides tips for facilitating conversations about this topic.
Navigating Difficult Conversations: Gender Identity
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This webinar explores how to facilitate open and respectful classroom conversations about gender identity.
Navigating Difficult Conversations: Building Trust
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This webinar focuses on how to cultivate safe spaces for students so that open and respectful dialogue can take place in the classroom.
Memphis 1968: Lessons for Today
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Learn interdisciplinary teaching strategies to examine the events that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in 1968 through a critical lens.
Literacy with a Social Studies Lens: Writing for Deeper Learning
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Learn strategies that will help your students build informative, explanatory, and argumentative writing skills needed to address the Reconstruction Era and compelling issues in today's world.
Literacy with a Social Studies Lens: Reading, Speaking and Listening for Deeper Learning
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Learn teaching strategies that help students interrogate text, think critically, and discuss controversial issues respectfully.
An Introduction to Facing History's Approach to Teaching 'An Inspector Calls'
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Learn about our Teaching An Inspector Calls Unit, which provides all of the resources and strategies for you to deliver this titan of texts in an academically rigorous, thought-provoking, and compassionate way.
Identity, Race and the Classroom, Part 2
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Explore frameworks for having rigorous, nuanced, and identity-safe conversations about race.