Upcoming Courses & Seminars

Using Facing History’s resource book Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement, this seminar will explore how Americans defined citizenship and membership in the early part of the 20th century and the echoes and legacies of this movement today.

Using Facing History’s resource book Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement, this workshop/seminar will explore how ideas of race were developed and used to define degrees of citizenship and membership in American society. We will explore the emergence of eugenics early part of the 20th century and the echoes and legacies of this movement today. Additionally, this year’s seminar will explore the scientific advances that have occurred since the 2002 publishing of the resource book and the moral and ethical challenges presented by these scientific advance.

Credits are available towards professional development hours.

In this seminar, we will consider how ideas of race and racism developed during the years of Jim Crow segregation and the Progressive Era.

This seminar introduces educators to Facing History's resource, Teaching Mockingbird, which incorporates civic education, ethical reflection, and historical context into a literary exploration of Harper Lee's beloved novel.

CTLE hours available for New York State teachers

In today’s world, questions of how to best build and maintain democratic societies that are pluralistic, open, and resilient to violence are more relevant than ever. Studying the Holocaust using Facing History’s approach allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history and fosters their skills in ethical reasoning, critical thinking, empathy, and civic engagement—all of which are critical for sustaining democracy. This seminar features the fully revised, digital edition of Holocaust and Human Behavior and the newly revised teacher guide to Elie Wiesel’s Night, and is intended for middle and high school teachers.

 

 

In today’s world, questions of how to best build and maintain democratic societies that are pluralistic, open, and resilient to violence are more relevant than ever. Studying the Holocaust using Facing History’s approach allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history and fosters their skills in ethical reasoning, critical thinking, empathy, and civic engagement—all of which are critical for sustaining democracy. This seminar features the fully revised, printed edition of Holocaust and Human Behavior and is intended for middle and high school teachers of history, literature and humanities.

Graduate level professional development units available upon request.

Studying the Holocaust using Facing History’s approach allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions while fostering their skills in ethical reasoning, critical thinking, empathy, and civic engagement—all of which are critical for sustaining democracy. This seminar is intended for middle and high school teachers.

About Blended Seminars:
Especially for educators who have demanding schedules! A week before the face-to-face event, participants begin their seminar work online in an interactive course. They then meet in-person for three days. 

Online Course:
7.17.18 - 7.23.18

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.

CTLE hours available for New York State teachers

Explore questions of belonging and identity while considering the history and contemporary realities of immigration in the United States in this seminar.

This seminar explores the Reconstruction era in the United States and the construction of American identity.

 

Join us for a three-day seminar that will equip you with interactive literacy strategies you can use to engage your students in conversations around identity, history, and choices. We’ll use Facing History’s approach for teaching literary texts to middle and high school students, which weaves in rich primary sources and historical background for teaching fiction and memoir. We’ll explore Facing History's study guides for Night, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Farewell to Manzanar. Other works the seminar will address include Wonder and Warriors Don’t Cry. Themes and strategies will apply across works of literature, beyond those we study together in the seminar.