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Professional Development Summer - Fall 2016

Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird At this workshop we will explore the Rocky River: June 13-14; $20 ways Americans have defined Facing History's resource, citizenship at various times in history. Teaching Mockingbird, Using our resource book Race and incorporates civic education, Membership in American History: The ethical reflection, and historical Eugenics Movement, this workshop context into a literary will focus on the early 1900s, a time when many people exploration of Harper Lee's believed that eugenics, or race science, was the only way to beloved novel. We offer a unique approach that integrates address social problems like poverty and crime. In the United multimedia, historical sources, and Common Core-aligned States, it had a profound influence on educational and social strategies that deepen students' understanding of the novel policies. We will also explore how the legacy of these policies and illuminate fundamental questions of human behavior. impacts our society today.

Introduction to Facing History Independence: October 13; $10 Holocaust and Human Behavior This interactive workshop will introduce Facing History’s University Heights: Online beginning July 25; in-person August resources and approach to teaching and learning by focusing on 1-3; $430 themes of identity, membership, and choosing to participate. How is history shaped by hatred, Workshop sessions are designed to engage teachers in activities indifference, and denial, as well as for use at the beginning and throughout the school year. by caring, compassion, and responsibility? Using Facing History’s interdisciplinary approach to Civil Rights Historical Investigations citizenship education, we will Ursuline College: November 3-4; $270 examine the range of choices that led to the failure of democracy in Germany and ultimately to the persecution of millions of Jews and other targeted groups. We will move from thought to judgment to participation as we confront the moral questions inherent in a study of violence, racism, antisemitism and bigotry.

Race & Membership in American History Independence: Online beginning June 17; in person June 28- 29; $430

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or call our Program Assistant, Veronica Favela at (216) 321-9220x221 By studying the choices that led to membership, ethics and judgment have meaning today. In this critical episodes in history, students workshop we will explore ways to engage students in the issues learn how issues of identity and raised by the American civil rights movement.

For registration information please visit our website: https://www.facinghistory.org/calendar? field_event_region_value=Ohio

or call our Program Assistant, Veronica Favela at (216) 321-9220x221