Ideas This Week
Ideas This Week is your hub for updates on all things Facing History—from announcements and featured press to expert interviews, impact stories, and essays on the ideas driving our work.
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Teaching Settler Colonialism: Lessons from Canada
Jasmine Wong—Senior Program Associate for Facing History Canada—discusses her team’s groundbreaking work on their case study and curricular program Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools, including the wins and challenges her team has encountered while executing this work, and takeaways that educators can consider as they explore how to address settler colonialism in their own contexts.
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5 Teacher Resources for Hispanic American Heritage Month
Facing History shares free teacher resources of lessons designed to help educators bring the richness of Latinx life and history into focus in the classroom.
![A portion of a mural located at the Social Justice Leadership Academy at Esteban E. Torres High School in East Los Angeles, California.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/SJLA_Dolores_Huerta_graphic_cropped_FH287123.jpeg?h=ea21d51e&itok=A2coNGQ0)
LA Upstander: SAMEAN Voices
Each week, SAMEAN Voices consistently builds engaging and interactive curriculum, facilitating vulnerable and transformative dialogues for their peers. While SAMEAN Voices presents from an AMEMSA experience, they are open to all students and staff and their meetings have a high multiracial and multiethnic attendance.
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LA Upstander: Hailey C.
Hailey has been a prominent voice in our weekly Upstander meetings regardless of the topic. She has advocated for us to support people experiencing homelessness through various means.
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LA Upstander: Sanaia W.
Sanaia stands out because she has stood up as a leader and as a beacon of positivity in her grade level.
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LA Upstander: Heydy V.
Heydy participated in a youth leadership workshop for I Learn America (ILA), a project that brings students together to tell their stories of migration.
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LA Upstander: Itzel J.
Itzel J. is someone who has learned how to advocate for her needs, support her classmates through their own struggles by offering advice, all while having such a positive attitude at our school.
![Picture of Itzel J.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Itzel%20J..jpeg?h=211c8216&itok=nbSmcs0_)
LA Upstander: Michelle Lebron V.
Michelle has been an ally for LGBTQIA+ friends at our school. She has shared how she offered support for a student who wanted to come out as gay.
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LA Upstander: Angie G.
Angie is extremely hardworking but she also shows her abilities to be an Upstander in the classroom and for our school during these unprecedented times of distance learning.
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LA Upstander: Kimberly Garcia P.
Kimberly’s standing up has given other students reason to pause and think about how their response to something was insensitive and how to re-word their response to be more inclusive as well as sensitive to others.
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LA Upstander: Kaylen M.
Kaylen is the current president of Bring Change to Mind, a club that is dedicated to encouraging dialogue about mental health, and to raising awareness, understanding, and empathy.
![Picture of Kaylen M.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Kaylen%20Marez.jpeg?h=02fecede&itok=YzOJ_0wx)
LA Upstander: Prycilla M.
This year, our Student Upstanders group met weekly via Zoom every Friday at 8am. Prycilla always attends and is willing to share her ideas with everyone, but one of her best attributes is allowing others to also have a say and encouraging everyone in their individual passions.
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