Compass Points
Students get an opportunity to give feedback about the class and communicate their needs and worries.
![A person holds a compass in their hand with the ocean in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/personholdingblackandwhitecompass_FH2174435_teaser.jpeg?h=5dfb68b6&itok=-Xaib-Ey)
Exploring Multiple Visions for DEI Work: A Reading List
Facing History shares on books that captures various perspectives from a group of thought leaders interested in disrupting patterns that disempower and marginalize.
![A collage of DEI-related book covers by authors Bonilla-Silva, Kendi, Manji, Schulman, and Singleton.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/DEI_book_covers_collage_graphic.png?h=4be160bb&itok=ExpcjlwO)
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.
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Deep Dive into Black History: 12 Events + Resources for Educators
Below is a curated list of classroom resources and educator-relevant events available from Facing History’s peer and partner organizations across the education space this month and beyond.
![Black Soldier Reading on Truck photo in b&w](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/black_soldier_reading_on_truck_b%26w_photo.png?h=a6c55029&itok=LH_UL_Yi)
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.
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