Measuring Our Reach

In the Classroom

• Over the years Facing History has provided in-depth seminars for more than 29,000 educators. We estimate that our active teacher network reaches nearly two million students each year.

• Facing History held 64 in-depth seminars online, in locations across the United States, and internationally for more than 1,500 educators.

• More than 6,300 educators across the U.S. and around the world attended our workshops.

• Our evaluation team undertook 10 new studies in addition to our ongoing work with the National Professional Development Evaluation Project, a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of our program.

• Facing History chose 48 new teachers to receive Margot Stern Strom Teaching Awards this year. Since 2006, a total of 152 teachers have received awards.

• Facing History’s program is taught to teachers in training at such institutions as California State University at East Bay, Columbia Teachers College, Kigali Institute of Education in Rwanda, New York University, Simmons College, the University of Cape Town, the University of the Free State in Cape Town, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Reaching the Community

• Our educator network of 63,000 includes administrators and leaders of educational organizations and institutions. We also reach a community of supporters, scholars, parents, survivors of genocide, community leaders, media, and policy makers that numbers 46,000.

• More than 20,000 people, including 10,000 students and teachers, visited Choosing to Participate at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Ohio in fall 2009. Plans are underway to open the exhibit in Washington, D.C. in spring 2011. Since 1998 the Choosing to Participate initiative has traveled to seven American cities, reaching more than 375,000 individuals.

• More than 4,800 people attended Community Conversations, a national series of free, community-wide dialogues with high-profile speakers, held in partnership with The Allstate Foundation. Since 2005, more than 40,000 people have attended Community Conversations.

• Funding from James Manzi, Gerald and Dr. Linda Stern, and the Steamboat Foundation supported our intern program, which included 29 interns from schools such as Bennington College, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Clark University, Colby College, Colgate University, Columbia University, Duke University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, Smith College, Pitzer College, Tufts University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Wellesley College.

• Facing History received nearly 700 mentions in more than 300 local and national news outlets and on more than 190 blogs and websites.

Sharing Our Resources

• More than 28,000 copies of our resources were downloaded directly from our website.

• Facing History distributed more than 13,000 published resources, and our library loaned more than 13,000 books, DVDs, and other resources to educators.

• Our website received more than 740,000 visits from people in 211 countries and territories, with more than 2.5 million page views.

Supporting Scholarship

• Facing History co-sponsored two public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education through the Askwith Forum.

• Conferences at which Facing History staff made presentations include KIPP Schools National Social Studies Conference, the Teach for America Summit, National Association for Multicultural Education International Conference, National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the Salzburg Global Seminar, and the Association of Holocaust Organizations Conference and Winter Seminar.

• Details on the National Professional Development Evaluation Project, a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of our program, were presented at the Society for Research on Child Development in Philadelphia and the American Educational Research Association in Denver.

• Facing History has developed strong partnerships with leading universities, including Harvard University, New York University, Northeastern University, the University of Pennsylvania, Queen’s University Belfast, Eastern Michigan University, Rhodes College, and the University of California at Berkeley.