Building Community through Inquiry & Collaboration in the Secondary History and Civics Classroom


  • March 31, 2022
    4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Students need to know each other to learn from each other. As students return to the classroom and face to face learning, many educators are seeing the need to rebuild a classroom community. This workshop will focus on tips for building community, ways to increase student engagement, collaborative learning strategies and practical strategies to gather (more…)

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Addressing Hate: Understanding Contemporary Antisemitism and its Historical Roots


  • November 18, 2020
    4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

This workshop is being jointly offered by OTF and Facing History and Ourselves. Antisemitism is a grave threat to students’ safety and to human rights, and left unchecked, becomes a harbinger for persecution against other minorities, intolerance and the corrosion of democracy. This past year alone has seen a marked increase in antisemitism and related (more…)

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