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.
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.
Watch this webinar to hear Mr. Charles Mauldin, Selma March youth leader, reflect on his experiences as a student activist and the power of young people to spark social change, both during the civil rights movement and today.
Learn effective strategies to share with your students so that during the summer they can better listen, empathize and engage in the world around them.
Explore ways to critically examine your identity as an educator, examine teaching strategies to build community and trust, and share methods to facilitate reflective conversations.
Learn strategies to support your students to develop effective skills for civic participation.
Explore frameworks for having rigorous, nuanced, and identity-safe conversations about race.
Explore frameworks for having rigorous, nuanced, and identity-safe conversations about race.
The letter exchange between George Washington and the Hebrew congregation of Newport was not the only landmark event in the early history of America that dealt with issues of religious freedom and identity. Seixas’ letter and Washington’s subsequent response exist within a timeline of many other events during which the newly formed country faced those issues. Continue reading below for information about some of those events.
Watch this webinar to learn how you can explore the legacies of the Reconstruction Era with your students.
Watch to examine the way the Reconstruction Era is remembered and the impact of its various legacies in contemporary society.
Learn interdisciplinary teaching strategies to examine the events that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in 1968 through a critical lens.
Learn about Canada's restrictive immigration policies that led to the refusal to accept Jewish refugees from Europe during the years 1933-1948.