Winter Professional Development Opportunities

As you return from what we hope was a restful and rejuvenating winter break, Facing History & Ourselves has developed an array of learning opportunities to help you kick off this semester strong with new strategies and tools for the classroom. Join us for the sessions below and you’ll come away with: 

• Access to innovative teaching strategies and tools that will prepare you to respond to the unique and ever-changing challenges students are facing; 
• New connections with educators who share your commitment to building safe, inclusive classrooms for all students to thrive.

Invest in your professional growth by registering for our industry-leading virtual seminars and courses: 

Teaching for Equity & Justice Workshop

January 24 - 25, 2024

Gain a deeper understanding of the legacy of educational inequity in the U.S. and get tools to help you adopt more equitable teaching practices.

“Rarely do I have the opportunity to engage in meaningful and culturally sustaining experiences. Participating in this session provided me with the opportunity to be liberated, to be fully immersed and to be meaningfully responsive to other colleagues. I am a changed person. Thank you for your guidance and for the humanizing experience.”

-Teaching for Equity and Justice Participant

Brave Classrooms: Taking on Antisemitism in Schools

Begins February 1, 2024

This four-week mini-course offers a new module each week to explore the history and evolution of antisemitism and present steps to help students stand up against this form of hatred and bigotry.

“These resources apply to all controversial issues and are essential in creating a socially aware and critical classroom.”

- Brave Classrooms Participant

Coming of Age in a Complex World 

Begins February 1, 2024 

In this four-week mini-course, you’ll explore hands-on strategies to teach coming-of-age texts and literature, centering students’ identities and lived experiences as young adults.

“That was, by far, the best choreographed workshop I have ever attended - in-person or online - in my 30 years of teaching. Masterfully crafted hands-on activities, outlets for thinking, team teaching, facilitation of materials, ideas, affirmation of audience, accessibility of resources….Thank you for making this so invaluable.”

- Coming of Age Participant

Holocaust and Human Behavior

Begins February 8, 2024

Discover teaching strategies about the Holocaust and the themed of ethics and responsibility in this six-week online course.

“This course reminded me of the multitude of voices that shape how we understand history. It showed me how important so much of the pre-Holocaust information is in order to enable students to connect better with this historical period and see themselves as participants in their own society.”

- Holocaust and Human Behavior Participant

A New Approach to Teaching the Reconstruction Era

Begins February 8, 2024

In this six-week course, you’ll learn to teach about the Reconstruction era to help students connect this history to the choices they make today.

“This course has impacted me in many different ways. I was able to learn so much on the Reconstruction Era and I was able to do at my own pace. I loved the amount of time along with the engaging conversations I was able to have with educators around the country. The journal prompts were challenging and at the same time incredibly engaging.”

-Teaching Reconstruction Participant

A New Approach to Teaching ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Begins February 8, 2024

Incorporate civic education into an exploration of Harper Lee's novel during this six-week online course. 

“This course was extremely helpful in offering specific resources to drive both my personal learning and my classroom instruction.”

-Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird Participant

Explore the complete list of our professional learning opportunities including workshops, webinars, and courses on history, ELA, justice, equity and more.