Cleveland

Since the Cleveland office opened in 1999, more than 800 local educators have participated in Facing History's professional development programs. These teachers reach 80,000 middle and high school students in 200 independent, religious, and public schools throughout the greater Cleveland area.

Our deepening relationship with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) exemplifies the rich ways Facing History supports teachers in a variety of settings. Since 2008, 60 teachers from CMSD schools have attended one of our workshops or seminars. In addition to providing one-on-one support to these individual teachers as they infuse our content and approach into their respective classrooms, Facing History has also been integrated into two ongoing programs within the district.

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Changing School Culture

“I stand before a group of teenagers every day who are yearning to fully engage their communities. Facing History shows them how. It gives them vocabulary to use. It provides them an appetite for debate. It helps them get the courage to take on challenges…

In my dozens of years of education, I have not come across a more dynamic organization or one that so captures the human capacity for thoughtfulness and meaningful change.”

Greg Deegan, Facing History Educator
Beachwood High School, Cleveland, OH

Cleveland Stories

Susan Levitan: Ohio Teacher Rebuilds an English Curriculum with Lessons from Facing History

This month, Facing History and Ourselves will present $40,000 to educators around the world as part of its annual Margot Stern Strom Teaching Awards. Facing History board members David and Nina Fialkow founded the awards in 2006. “The crux of it for...
Fundamental Freedoms: Dr. Allida Black on Human Rights in Our Time

“[T]he advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief, and freedom from fear and want, has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.” – preamble to the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,”...

Events

Choices in Little Rock: Choosing to Participate Community Event featuring Dr. Terrence Roberts and Carlotta Walls LaNier
January 12, 2010

"Banished" Educator Workshop
February 3, 2010

News

Read about 2010 Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award Winners in Cleveland and Beyond.

Facing History Students Headed to The White House

02/08/2010
WKYC-TV Cleveland Visits Facing History's Choosing To Participate

02/07/2010


	Students Teach Students to Stand Up to Bullying
	Choosing to Participate on WKYC, Cleveland	WKYC's Kim Wheeler toured Facing History and Ourselves' nationally acclaimed multimedia exhibit Choosing to Participate with Facing History staff and local high school students at its launch in Cleveland. Visit the Choosing to Participate website.
	Cleveland Upstanders: Portraits of Courage	Each day our friends, neighbors and family members make decisions, large and small, that help create positive change in our world. See activists talk about what it means to be an upstander as part of Facing History and Ourselves' Choosing to Participate exhibition on display through February 2010 at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.

Participating Schools

Facing History and Ourselves is actively used in history, literature, interdisciplinary, government and specially designed Facing History electives. In addition to being incorporated into K-12 schools, Facing History is also taught in colleges and universities. Our program associates work with educators to help them use these materials in the most appropriate ways.
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