On-Demand Learning
Brought to you by the Hammer Family Foundation, our on-demand webinars cover a wide range of topics including social studies, history, civics, ELA, equity and inclusion, and classroom culture. Many of our webinars qualify for professional development credit.
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Equity & Inclusion
Teaching for Equity and Justice: A Conversation with Linda Darling-Hammond
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Explore the historical roots of current inequities, the role of professional and personal learning opportunities for educators, and the importance of integrating social-emotional learning and civic education to empower all students.
Critical Reflections about Equity in Education with Dr. John B. King and Dr. Janice K. Jackson
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Amid the upheaval of the global pandemic and worldwide demonstrations against systemic racism, essential questions about equity in education have taken center stage.
Dr. John B. King Jr., CEO of The Education Trust and former US Secretary of Education, and Dr. Janice K. Jackson, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, discuss the role of education during moments of national reckoning and the importance of civic agency in our classrooms. This couldn’t be better highlighted than in our unique partnership with Dr. Jackson and the Chicago Public School system, where we are training all middle and high school social science teachers to teach three of our core case studies.
This is the first conversation in the year-long Facing History Now: Conversations on Equity and Justice virtual event series.
Navigating Difficult Conversations: Gender Identity
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This webinar explores how to facilitate open and respectful classroom conversations about gender identity.
Memphis 1968: Lessons for Today
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Learn interdisciplinary teaching strategies to examine the events that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in 1968 through a critical lens.
Identity, Race and the Classroom, Part 2
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Explore frameworks for having rigorous, nuanced, and identity-safe conversations about race.
Identity, Race and the Classroom, Part 1
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Virtual
Explore frameworks for having rigorous, nuanced, and identity-safe conversations about race.
George Takei: Standing Up to Racism, Then and Now
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Virtual
Actor and activist George Takei discusses his family’s wrongful incarceration during WWII, and the anti-Asian racism on the rise today.
Race, Equity, and the State of Education: A Conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera
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Virtual
The global pandemic has magnified deep structural and historical inequities. Listen to a conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera, national educational leader and Dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, where we hear his reflections on the state of education today and what it means to support social justice and be an anti-racist educator.