Memory, Legacy and the Reconstruction Era: A Conversation with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
On-Demand
Virtual
By examining periods of violence during the Reconstruction era, students learn about the potential backlash to political and social change.
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Memphis 1968: Lessons for Today
On-Demand
Virtual
Learn interdisciplinary teaching strategies to examine the events that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in 1968 through a critical lens.
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Current Events in Your Classroom: Fostering Dialogue in Divisive Times
On-Demand
Virtual
Learn tips, strategies, and tools you can use in your classroom to help engage students in productive and meaningful discussions about current world issues.
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A Facing History Approach to PSHE/SMSC
On-Demand
Virtual
This webinar explores Standing Up for Democracy, a Facing History & Ourselves resource which is suitable for Citizenship, History, PSHE, and Tutor time.
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How AAPI Thinkers are Redefining Asianness
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) thought leaders reveal their experiences with “single stories” to demonstrate what it can look like to push back against restrictive narratives that dominate American society.
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Teaching About Anti-Asian Violence: Start with Yourself and Your Community
Most school curriculum fails to adequately address Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) histories and identities, which contributes to a widespread lack of understanding that fuels the anti-AAPI hate we see today. Facing History provides suggestions and resources for educators to better address AAPI histories so as to avoid continuing this damaging trend.
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Remembering Little Rock
Facing History shares on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 and provides resources for educators to use with their students to promote historical understanding, critical thinking, social-emotional learning, and civic agency.
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Remembering Grace Lee Boggs
The story of Chinese American activist and philosopher, Grace Lee Boggs, provides an inspiring example of the effectiveness of cross-racial organizing work between Black and Asian communities in pursuing racial justice by discovering shared stakes, committing to collective action, and nurturing ongoing resistance.
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Complicating "Asian Americans"
Facing History explores the complex story surrounding this term to broaden educators' understanding of and ability to teach about AAPI and API histories and contemporary life.
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Centering AAPI Students in the Classroom: An Expert Interview
Dr. Guofang Li and Dr. Nicholas D. Hartlep, leading scholars in the field of Asian-American Education, discuss obstacles to delivering quality education to Asian and Pacific Islander American (AAPI) students, the emergence and pervasiveness of the “model minority myth” (or “stereotype”), and how educators can actively center the needs and experiences of their AAPI students.
![Dr. Guofang Li and Dr. Nicholas D. Hartlep side-by-side headshots.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/GLandNH.jpeg?h=8869a3dd&itok=It89bQNM)
Disrupting the Legacies of Eugenics
Facing History shares on the history of eugenics and encourages educators to bring this important history into the classroom.
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