Haiti in Historical Context
Facing History shares on Haiti’s often erased and obscured, yet extraordinary history of resistance.
![A woman holds a Haitian flag and roses at a church service following the earthquake of January 24, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/Haiti_flag_roses.jpeg?h=199d8c1f&itok=_xeHZ3uV)
Essential Teacher Habits for Driving Educational Equity
Facing History colleagues share tips for creating more educationally equitable school communities.
![A male teacher of Asian descent instructs a group of students.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/male_asian_teacher_with_students_in_classroom.png?h=16ec4b77&itok=Qx3TcvgN)
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)
Mood Meter
This mood meter activity develops students’ vocabulary for describing their feelings and their empathy muscles.
![Two middle school students write with pencils on a big paper activity.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/ClassroomImage_FH2101676.jpg?h=c11c9c1d&itok=2LE9vXfG)
Exit Cards
Students share how they are feeling, what their needs are, and what goals they’d like to set in an exit card.
![A person holds a glass door open with a backpack over one shoulder.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/manholdingglassdoor_2017_FH2174434.jpg?h=d8832164&itok=qp7RoHxk)
Authoring My Identity
Students explore the costs and benefits of sharing aspects of their identities, discuss an informational text about “narrative identity,” and apply these concepts to their own lives in an original poem.
What is Power?
Students define power and then analyze five perspectives about power in order to understand its many sources and the different ways it can be experienced.
![Two male students write at their desks.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Cleveland_Classroom_2019_FH2100139.jpg?h=78aab1d8&itok=eGCF5ua2)
After Charlottesville: How Uncomfortable Conversations Can Overcome Hate
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Watch this conversation with journalist and author Eli Saslow to learn how white-supremacist ideas migrated from the far-right fringe to the streets of Charlottesville and beyond.
![Chalk on bricks on the sidewalk that says "End White Supremacy"](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/WhiteNationalism_RTS1WFW5_highres-305px-wide_0.jpeg?h=24afd704&itok=qmg0gyF9)
Rising Antisemitism and Fading Memories of the Holocaust
Help students analyze recent trends regarding receding Holocaust memory and the resurgence of antisemitism in Europe, and prompt them to consider how history can help us confront hate in the world.
![Protesters against Antisemitism in Paris, 2018](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_Remembrance_Day_9482772.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=_amQsU-x)
Introducing Agency
Students explore the concept of agency, both in literature and in life, and examine the societal forces that play a role in an individual’s agency.
![Two Volta Elementary School students work at their desks.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-07/Chicago_Classroom_2019_%20FH2101627.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=Pd3sRqZO)
Agency, Choice, and Action
Students apply their thinking about power and agency to an analysis of four personal narrative essays written by young people.
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