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Professional Learning for Civic Education

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Last Modified June 12, 2025
Description Check out more on-demand and self-paced professional development opportunities that will help you develop new strategies, curriculum, and approaches to integrating the principles of civic education into your school or classroom.
Professional Learning

Teaching about Controversial Issues in Polarized Times

This special conversation with Dr. Diana Hess details how educators can navigate the challenges of discussing polarizing civic topics in their classrooms.

Students and a teacher sit in a circle and hold a discussion
Professional Learning

Developing Students’ Civic Imagination in Challenging Times

In this webinar, Facing History and our partners at the Civic Imagination Project to considered how to can leverage principles of civic education to empower students to envision a better world.

A diverse group of students and teachers discuss something at a table
Professional Learning

Voting Rights and Political Access with Dr. Carol Anderson

This webinar examines the history of suffrage in the US and how political access has been both restricted and obtained.

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Professional Learning

Educating for Youth Voting & Civic Participation with CIRCLE

This webinar dispels common misconceptions about youth civic engagement and discusses how to educate for informed and equitable voting amid rising polarization.

Picture of student speaking.
Professional Learning

Teaching the US Founding: An Inquiry-Based Approach

This webinar explores our C3-aligned inquiry in which students consider the complexities and contradictions in the history of the founding of the US.

Outside of the classroom view of students and teacher.
Community Event

We Are Facing History: Civics & 21st Century Democracy

Dr. Danielle Allen and Dr. Peter Levine discuss the necessity of fostering active civic participation and ways we can work across differences and break down polarization to build a stronger democracy.

Image of Dr. Danielle Allen & Dr. Peter Levine
Professional Learning

Current Events in Your Classroom: Fostering Dialogue in Divisive Times

This 30-minute webinar introduces you to our current events resources designed to foster thoughtful classroom conversations and build your students’ capacities for critical thinking, emotional engagement, ethical reflection, and civic agency.

A Facing History educator speaks to a classroom of parents
Professional Learning

Becoming A Multiracial Democracy

Author Eddie Glaude Jr. discusses how we can choose to “begin again” and realize a multiracial democracy in this moment of moral reckoning.

Headshot of Eddie Glaude, Jr, an American historian.
Professional Learning

Choosing to Participate: Civic Engagement in a Digital Age

What does it mean to be civically engaged today? How can students effectively leverage the power of digital tools to make civic change? During this webinar, we are in conversation with Henry Jenkins, Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California, where we discuss the relationship between technology, learning, and civic engagement.

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Professional Learning

Transforming Schools: Empowering Student Voice and Civic Participation

Learn ways to empower students to find their voice, a framework for youth participation, and examples of civic participation.

A student with pink hair speaks in a classroom with their hand raised.
Professional Learning

Working for Justice, Equity and Civic Agency in Our Schools: A Conversation with Clint Smith

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.

Clint Smith speaking at Ted Talk.
Professional Learning

Choices in Little Rock Workshop: An Approach to Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

This self-paced online workshop will introduce you to the Choices in Little Rock unit and help prepare you to teach this unit in your classroom.

Teacher and students in conversation group