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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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Teaching Red Scarf Girl

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This interactive self-paced workshop helps teachers develop a customized plan for teaching Red Scarf Girl informed by Facing History’s approach.
A drawing of young children in China holding little red books in the air.
Professional Learning

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

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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

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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

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Virtual
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.
Standing educator speaking to a group of four students sitting around a table.
Professional Learning

Transforming Schools: Empowering Student Voice and Civic Participation

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Learn ways to empower students to find their voice, a framework for youth participation, and examples of civic participation.
A student with pink hair speaks in a classroom with their hand raised.
Professional Learning

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

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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

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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.
Professional Learning

Whose Vote Counts

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How have the pandemic and allegations of voter fraud raised barriers to voting that may disenfranchise many Americans? 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. Dr. Jelani Cobb, staff writer for The New Yorker and Columbia Journalism School Professor, joins June Cross, documentary filmmaker and Columbia Journalism School Professor, and Frontline producer Tom Jennings, for this discussion on one of the most contentious presidential elections in recent memory.  This is the third installment in the year-long Facing History Now: Conversations on Equity and Justice virtual event series.
Collage of Dr. Jelani Cobb, June Cross, and Tom Jennings in black and white.
Professional Learning

Working for Justice, Equity and Civic Agency in Our Schools: A Conversation with Clint Smith

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Issues of equity and education have long existed in our country and continue to manifest today. How can writing and the power of one's voice help us respond to these disparities? Listen to writer and educator, Dr. Clint Smith, where we hear his poetry and reflections on working for justice, equity, and civic agency in our schools.
Clint Smith speaking at Ted Talk.
Professional Learning

World Refugee Day

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Virtual
In this recorded webinar, we explore ways to bring World Refugee Day, observed each year on June 20, to the classroom, including new multimedia resources, strategies for understanding key terms and laws, and approaches to sparking reflection and discussion.
World Refugee Day image.
Professional Learning

WWII in Asia: Between History & Memory

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This webinar models how to access Facing History's rich digital and print content for teaching the Japanese invasion of Nanjing and the beginning of World War II in Asia. In addition, we are joined by Dr. Hong Zheng, author of Nanjing Never Cries, and offer strategies for how to integrate the use of memoir in social studies and humanities classrooms. Recommended for World History educators teaching World War II in East Asia.
Cover photo of Nanjing Never Cries.
Professional Learning

Enrich the Jewish Holiday Curriculum Using Facing History Materials

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During this webinar, we discuss practical tools and strategies that encourage students to make authentic connections between Jewish holiday content and Facing History themes encountered in the classroom.
Citizens Protesting Anti-Semitic Acts, Billings, Montana, 1994.