Mission
Stand up to bigotry and hate
Vision
Increase critical thinking skills and civic responsibility
Key words
Classroom, Teacher, Upstander, School, Teaching resources
About Facing History and ourselves
History is about Human behavior and choices. History is about who I am and how we interact with each other.
How History can help us think outside norms and stereotypes?
Facing History and Ourselves empowers teachers and students to think critically about history and to understand the impact of their choices.
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Raise a no racist generation
EmbraceRace produces digital materials and shares videos of first-person stories about race to help raise a generation of children who are thoughtful, informed, and brave about race.
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Celebrate Human Rights Day
All human, all equal
Every year on 10 December, the world celebrates Human Rights Day, the very day when, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Make children pround of their differences
My difference is my power
Embracing diversity starts early!
Meet Hashley, a young French-Haitian girl, born in Paris, who learns how to love her own differences and those of others, and who became self-confidence! Representations matter.
In books, on TV, in a store: diversity shouldn’t be an exception, it should be the norm.
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