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Listen to Dr. Clint Smith's poetry and reflections on issues of equity and education, both how they have long existed in our country and how they are particularly manifesting today.

This interactive workshop uses resources from the companion study guide Teaching Red Scarf Girl and helps teachers develop a customized teaching plan informed by Facing History’s approach.

This interactive self-guided course will support you in teaching your Canadian history course with a methodology and accompanying resources that encourage an honest and complex approach to the content.

Listen to Dr. Eve L. Ewing discuss the history and legacy of The Red Summer in Chicago, a week-long episode of racial violence in 1919.

Watch a conversation with Dr. Jelani Cobb, June Cross, and Tom Jennings to explore an issue critical to the 2020 election: access to voting.

Watch a conversation with Dr. Carol Anderson; professor, historian, and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, exploring the history of the fight for African Americans' voting rights as part of the struggle for racial justice in the United States.

Watch a conversation with Dr. John B. King Jr., CEO of The Education Trust and former US Secretary of Education, and Dr. Janice K. Jackson, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, discuss the role of education during moments of national reckoning and the importance of civic agency in our classrooms.

Hear reflections on the state of education today and what it means to support social justice and be an anti-racist educator.

Learn about pedagogical approaches that exist to empower educators and their students to analyze, navigate, and challenge racial injustice.

Explore resources for bringing closure to an extraordinary school year, helping students stay connected to learning, and rebuilding community when school resumes.

Learn about the historical roots of race and equity and explore ways of starting conversations about race and equity in Jewish educational settings.

Learn strategies that will help your students build informative, explanatory, and argumentative writing skills needed to address the Reconstruction Era and compelling issues in today's world.

Explore the historical roots of current inequities, the role of professional and personal learning opportunities for educators, and the importance of integrating social-emotional learning and civic education to empower all students.

Explore remote teaching strategies and approaches to creating community and sustaining student-centered learning in a digital environment.

Learn about the preparations schools should be doing and explore teaching strategies for online learning.

Learn practical tools and strategies to encourage students to explore their Jewish identities and consider how they coexist with their identities as Americans.

Delve into the testimonies and experiences of those who were part of the National Inquiry in Canada, both in the past and in the present, while maintaining the importance of intersectional and Indigenous-led storytelling in documenting genocide.

Explore how to help define your school's vision of advisory programmatically and consider how advisory helps to build community within the classroom and school at large.

During this webinar, we share tips and tools you can use in your classroom to help engage students in productive and meaningful discussions about current world issues. We also practice strategies to navigate heightened emotions and a range of perspectives in diverse settings.

Learn about Canada's restrictive immigration policies that led to the refusal to accept Jewish refugees from Europe during the years 1933-1948.

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.

This webinar features a conversation with Ambassador Samantha Power about educating young people to be upstanders for a more humane and just world.

Watch to examine the way the Reconstruction Era is remembered and the impact of its various legacies in contemporary society.

Watch this webinar to learn about our extensive resources for teaching about immigration in social studies and literature classrooms and discuss the importance of stories in addressing today’s challenges of borders and belonging.

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.

Watch this webinar to hear three classroom teachers discuss teaching strategies and reflect on classroom successes and challenges.

In this webinar, we discuss how to use the documentary Brother Outsider to explore Bayard Rustin’s identity as a gay man of color trying to affect change in the twentieth century, his work as the organizer of the March on Washington, and his legacy in the civil rights movement today.

Watch this webinar to explore teaching Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s powerful memoir of her family’s internment at Manzanar Internment Camp in California.

Watch this webinar where we’ll examine Ji-li Jiang’s affecting memoir of growing up during the Cultural Revolution and discuss ways to introduce the concept of memoir to your students, particularly as they grapple with a historical narrative of the Cultural Revolution.

Watch this webinar to hear Mr. Charles Maudlin, 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.

How can we apply the lessons of the film Schindler’s List toward standing up to hatred in our own communities? How do you engage students in conversations around racism, antisemitism and other forms of hatred? Watch this webinar to hear Mr. Spielberg discuss the legacy of Schindler’s List, its impact on Holocaust education, and the importance of responding to hatred in our communities today.

In this webinar, we explore some of the immediate and long-term legacies in the lives of individuals, in the course of nations, and in the policies developed in response to the death and destruction of WWII.

This webinar examines how to use images to support middle school students’ understanding of key themes in the history of the rise of the Nazis and models teaching strategies geared toward helping middle school students analyze historical images.

Watch this webinar to learn how to integrate video testimonies and original mini-documentaries into your middle school classroom.

Watch this webinar to learn about our self-paced workshop, Getting Started with Holocaust and Human Behavior, and how it can help you develop your own customized teaching plan informed by Facing History’s approach and our one-week unit outline.

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

This webinar explores the many questions faced by educators in the wake of the events in Parkland, Florida.

In this first webinar of a two-part series, strategies are modeled to help teachers foster civil discourse in their classrooms.

This webinar explores the Teaching Night resource guide with a focus on how to use the many resources in the guide with students.

This webinar explores some of the immediate and long-term legacies of the Holocaust and World War II.

This webinar explores ways teachers can help their students to become informed and effective civic participants in today’s digital landscape.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to integrate the new edition’s video testimonies and original mini-documentaries into your classroom, and get tips for teaching strategies that connect the study of history with ethical reflection and human behavior.

This webinar explores how images from Holocaust and Human Behavior can be used to support students' understanding of key themes in the history of the rise of the Nazis.

Learn interdisciplinary teaching strategies to examine the events that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in 1968 through a critical lens.

Explore frameworks for having rigorous, nuanced, and identity-safe conversations about race.