InterGeneration: Exploring Storytelling Through Film and Conversation

Experience our approach to teaching Coming-of-Age literature, designed to increase student agency, empathy, critical thinking and literacy skills, and belief they can make a difference in the world. This blended 3-part workshop series, open to educators in Boston and Cleveland, consists of two virtual meetings and one day long in person workshop.

Learn ways to support students in discussions about identity and to invite their identities into classrooms. 

Throughout 2021, racism has continued to dominate the headlines, from the release of the government’s contentious Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report to the violent abuse directed at England’s young footballers during Euro 2020. Whilst the roots of such racism are complex, the white-washing of British history has no doubt played a role in allowing racist views of difference and belonging to persist. With black history having been silenced or sidelined in the curriculum, Black History Month offers us an important opportunity to expand our understanding of Black history, commit to new ways of learning and teaching it, and support our students in making connections between the past and present. This one-hour webinar explores how we should engage with Black History Month in a way that acknowledges and celebrates black British history as British history.

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

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

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

Facing History & Ourselves’ 2022-23 All Community Read will be a collective journey of transformation supported by an educator workshop and author event. We will engage in conversation around the young adult and adult versions of Judith Heumann’s memoirs.

Facing History shares on the importance of having Black teachers in the classroom.

In response to the rise of legislation targeting transgender people, Facing History provides resources for educators to build an affirming, welcoming class community for your students, especially trans and non-binary students.

Facing History shares resources on 9/11 and its legacy to help educators answer some of the questions students might have about it.

Facing History staff takes a moment to reflect on personal experiences of being a minority amidst a climate of hate and the ability to use reading as a tool for discovering oneself. 

The introduction of the Ida B. Wells Barbie as part of the Women Series of Barbies marks an opportunity to gain meaningful insight into changing conceptions of gender, race, and education through the emergence and evolution of Barbie.