Coming of Age in a Complex World: A Mini-Course for ELA Educators
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Registration for this event is now closed. Explore hands-on strategies to teach coming-of-age texts and literature, centering students’ identities and lived experiences as young adults.
28 Social-Emotional Learning Activities for the Classroom
Use these simple social-emotional learning activities to incorporate SEL in your lesson plans and classroom routines.
Teaching Strategies
Use our student-centered teaching strategies to strengthen your students’ literacy skills, nurture critical thinking, and build a respectful and collaborative classroom community.
Gay Life Under Nazi Rule: The Legacy of Paragraph 175
Students watch survivor testimony from the documentary Paragraph 175 and engage in purposeful reflection about the survivors’ important stories.
Nine YA Reading Recs for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Celebrate AAPI coming-of-age stories with this list of YA fiction and non-fiction titles curated by Facing History staff.
The Pursuit of Educational Justice in Boston: A New Historical Investigation
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Boston, MA
Experience our new C-3 style inquiry on educational justice in Boston, applying analysis of equity and justice in schooling in the 1960s and 1970s and drawing connections to today. This event will be hosted in-person.
Why Just Mercy Matters
The film Just Mercy can offer invaluable insights to students in unpacking the harsh realities of the justice systems.
Media Literacy for Well-being, Relationships, and Democracy for NYCPS Educators
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New York, NY
This workshop for New York City Public School middle and high faculty will explore how to have reflective and constructive conversations with students about media literacy. This event will be held in-person.
Borders & Belonging
This modular ELA collection for grades 7–12 invites students to explore the complicated world of belonging and the tangible and intangible borders that shape it.
Introducing Our New Borders & Belonging Collection
Explore our second thematic teaching collection created for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
Honoring Arab American Heritage, Stories, and Changemakers
Explore the history of Arab people in the United States and how they have shaped American culture and society.
10 New Books on LGBTQIA+ History and Contemporary Life
Facing History shares ten titles released in the last year that bring important themes in LGBTQIA+ history and contemporary life to the fore, exploring the diverse ways in which this extensive topic is explored by educators, intellectuals, and thought leaders.