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Find resources and support to help you implement Facing History in your classroom

Facing History’s unique approach to teaching academics with the explicit goal of developing civic agency in adolescents has proven outcomes in the classroom and beyond. Our resources will help you add dimension to your practice by amplifying equity and justice, social-emotional learning, and civic education.

Implement Facing History in your Classroom

From standalone activities to complete collections, our best-in-class curricular resources help educators promote students’ analytical thinking skills, empathy, and engagement with key civic and social issues.

We also offer professional learning opportunities focused on equity, civics, social-emotional learning, and school leadership to help you get the most out of Facing History’s resources.

Collection

Explore classroom resources for making connections between current events and your curriculum, including activities and discussion strategies for high school and middle school students.

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Toolkit

These back-to-school activities and teacher resources will help you lay a foundation for a reflective and caring community at the start of the school year.

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Guide

This guide provides the framework and classroom resources to help you design an English Language Arts unit for middle or high school students centered around a book of your choosing.

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Collection

Learn how to incorporate civic education, ethical reflection and historical context into a literary exploration of Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Text Set

Designed for students in grades 9-10, this text set includes lesson plans and multi-genre texts for a 1–2 week unit exploring the essential question, "What makes me, me?"

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Unit

Teach a 3-week study of the Reconstruction era guided by the essential question "What can we learn from the history of Reconstruction as we work to strengthen democracy today?"

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Inquiry

This 5-7 day C3-aligned inquiry explores the compelling question “How does the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station help us understand how borders are erected, enforced, and challenged?”

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Collection

Draw from this flexible curriculum collection featuring units, lesson plans, and C3-style inquiries to teach middle or high school US history.

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Collection

Our advisory curriculum for grades 8–10 contains a year’s worth of activities, handouts, and best practices for establishing inclusive communities where students can engage in honest discussions and build their voices.

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Collection

These opening and closing classroom routines will set a welcoming tone, allow students to connect with one another, and encourage goal setting.

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Professional Learning

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Virtual

Listen to writer and educator Dr. Clint Smith as he shares his poetry and reflections on working for justice, equity, and civic agency in our schools.

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We Succeed Together.

Teachers and Facing History share a mission and values. We want to use our history, social studies, English language arts, and other classroom content to prepare students to recognize and stand up to bigotry and hate when they witness it. Our students work together to create space in their classrooms that encourage empathy, kindness, respect, and curiosity.

Facing History works toward this shared mission and values every day, and has found measurable, positive results. You can learn more about the impact of this work in our impact report.

Whenever I try to figure out how to make sense of this world for my students, my touchstone is always Facing History.

— Tracy Garrison-Feinberg, Teacher, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School (Brooklyn, NY)

Empowering Students in the Classroom and Beyond

Educators know that what their students learn in the classroom affects how they view contemporary issues. Facing History helps educators connect history to what’s happening in the world today. After participating in a Facing History classroom, many of our students are inspired to put the values they have developed into practice in their communities.

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Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Mar 17, 2022

Facing History shares five books that have been released in the last year that address important themes in women’s history.

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Insight

by Facing History & Ourselves

Mar 14, 2022

Explore resources that offer additional points of entry that educators can use to situate the Ukrainian refugee crisis in broader global histories of displacement and highlight its connections to other refugee crises unfolding around the globe.

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Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Mar 10, 2022

Facing History provides links to 10 virtual exhibitions that teachers can use to introduce students to women's history.

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Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Mar 8, 2022

Facing History summarizes the significance of the Supreme Court Justice nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Dec 14, 2021

Below are 6 books published in 2021 that speak to underacknowledged dimensions of human rights in history, teaching, and contemporary global society.

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Insight

by R.R. Rubin

Mar 24, 2022

Facing History describes the wave of Anti-Transgender legislation happening in the US, and how this affects our trans youth.

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Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Mar 21, 2022

Facing History summarizes three new books that have been released in the last year that address the ongoing struggle of women against gender violence.

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Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Mar 18, 2022

Facing History provides a list of five YA titles that have been released in the last year that make important themes in women’s history and contemporary life accessible to young readers.

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Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Mar 4, 2022

Facing History invites teachers to take a deeper dive into the histories and experiences of women around the nation in work with their students.

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Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Mar 2, 2022

Facing History invites educators to check out the following 5 classroom resources that offer a look at women making history in various contexts and/or contemporary experiences and contributions within various domains.

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Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Feb 28, 2022

The approaches that Black leaders have embraced across space and time are numerous and have encompassed assimilationist and integrationist conceptions of social change, alongside contrasting approaches rooted in Black self-determination and nationalism.

Photo of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Talking

Impact Story

by Jen Langley

Apr 22, 2022

Facing History Sr. Director of Marketing & Analytics Jen Langley reflects on her personal connection to the Armenian Genocide.

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