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Join us for a new, online team-based professional learning experience including a workshop for teams, a readiness tool for your school, and personalized follow-up meetings. Learn about how Facing History's approach to equity, SEL and civics can transform your school.
This workshop is directed towards design teams of educators from a school or district.
This event is geared toward educators in Jewish settings interested in or launching their participation in the Facing History Jewish Partner Schools Network.
Join us as we welcome new Partner Schools into Facing History and Ourselves’ Jewish Education Partner School Network. What does it mean to be a Facing History Jewish Education Partner School? What are best practices for implementing a Facing History and Ourselves program in your school community? These are some of the questions that we will answer at this onboarding workshop. Facing History Jewish Education staff will introduce incoming school teams to Facing History’s approach and opportunities that come with participation in this network.
All fees are in US Dollars. We can support payment in some alternate currencies and will handle those once your application is approved.
Schedule: Wednesday, June 29, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET Wednesday, June 29, 2022: 7 – 8 PM ET Thursday, June 30, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET
Join us for a two-day online learning experience as we examine moments in the history of American education, current systems of inequity, and provide educators with the tools necessary to mitigate these barriers to equity.
Dr. Dena Simmons will discuss how the intersection of emotionally intelligent and culturally-relevant practices can create equitable and welcoming classroom communities, where everyone can learn in the comfort of their skin.
Schedule: Tuesday, July 12, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET Wednesday, July 13, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET Thursday, July 14, 2022: 11AM – 4 PM ET
Stories have the power to transform the way young people see themselves and others. 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.
Schedule:
Monday, July 18: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Tuesday, July 19: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Wednesday, July 20: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Thursday, July 21: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Help students wrestle with the profound moral questions raised by the study of the Holocaust and foster their skills in civic engagement, ethical reasoning, critical thinking, and empathy — all of which are necessary for sustaining democracy.
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Edward Westermann focusing on his research around perpetrator behavior in Nazi Germany.
Monday, July 25: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Tuesday, July 26: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Wednesday, July 27: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
Thursday, July 28: 11 AM – 4 PM ET
How does society rebuild after extraordinary division and trauma, when the ideals and values of democracy are most vulnerable? Join us as we examine the Reconstruction era and learn to teach about this significant period in US history using an approach that helps students connect this history to their own lives and the choices they make today.
Join us in Conversation with writer and historian, Dr. Kidada Williams, as we discuss her research on African Americans’ fight for liberty and equality during and after the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
4:00–5:00 PM ET 3:00–4:00 PM CT 2:00–3:00 PM MT 1:00–2:00 PM PT
Join us to prepare for the coming school year as we explore teaching strategies and flexible resources designed to help you begin getting to know your students and facilitate the process of creating an open, supportive, and reflective classroom community.
How can educators In Jewish settings help students critically engage with complex Jewish texts through exploration of human behavior and decision making? This Facing History online workshop will explore the role of perspective-taking, meaningful reflection and building empathy. Educators will gain strategies for providing students with opportunities to form opinions about themes such as power, systems of inequity, and the multiple ways of being human in the world today.
This workshop prepares teachers to interweave a literary analysis of Elie Wiesel’s powerful and poignant memoir with an exploration of the relevant historical context underlying Wiesel’s experience.
There is much for today's young people to learn from student civic-political participation in the past. Students have “chosen to participate” in consequential ways at critical moments throughout the past century of US history, particularly during the Civil Rights Movement. Join Facing History for a two day workshop exploring the role of youth activism in the Civil Rights Movement.
