TechBoston: "The Opposite of a Troubled Urban Public School"

Steve Ensdorf, a history teacher at TechBoston Academy, describes his school as "a success, an oasis, a community, and a home," and credits the values of tolerance, dialog, and civic participation that Facing History and Ourselves has emphasized in building the school community. Ensdorf relates how students progress from understanding to empathy to a call to action in the reaction of a TechBoston student who visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp as part of a school-organized trip:"it makes me want to do everything I can to stop injustice today."

Ensdorf speaks at the 2010 Facing History and Ourselves New England Benefit dinner.