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.
Changing School Culture
“The Race and Membership Seminar has had a huge impact on me as an educator. Since I became a teacher I have been on a constant quest to figure out how I can teach my students both explicit content and implicit expectations and life lessons through the prescribed curriculum. After attending this seminar I have concluded that Facing History and Ourselves is the answer because everything relates back to the individual self—the journey from which we've come, the process in choosing which journey to pursue, and the steps in moving towards and onto that path. I now have the help, resources, and guidance to continue to move forward in my classroom in a more effective way.”
- Anisha Corbin Mahone, Cleveland Heights High
REAL School, Race and Membership seminar participant, 2011
Cleveland Stories
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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...
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“[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,”...
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To truly know what it means to be an outsider, sometimes you need to be an insider. This was the case, anyway, for Luma Mufleh, a native of Jordan who came to the United States for college and never moved back home. After graduating with a degree...
Cleveland Videos
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Students Map Bully Zones to Create a Safer School |
Students at Orange High School in Pepper Pike, Ohio, map their school to locate the spaces where bullying takes place. After identifying the "bully hotspots," students create a flash freeze demonstration to raise awareness about bullying, and open the conversation about how to create a safer school. This “Not in Our Schools” project was developed in a History and Democracy class based on Facing History and Ourselves. Learn more about Not in Our School |
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"I Had Come Face to Face with Evil": Leon Bass Talks about his Experiences of Racism |
Leon Bass, a retired educator, describes his encounters with racism when he volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1943, and his anger when the people he was to protect and defend let him know that he "wasn't good enough" to be treated as an equal. Upon seeing inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after its liberation, he realized the extreme that being "not good enough" could take. He returned home determined to get an education despite the discrimination he faced, and to fight against that discrimination. As a high school principal he witnessed the impact a Holocaust survivor had on his students, and was inspired to share his personal story. Bass speaks at the Facing History and Ourselves 2010 Cleveland benefit dinner. |
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Students Teach Students to Stand Up to Bullying |
At Shaw High School in East Cleveland, OH, students in Lori Urogody-Eiler's Facing History and Ourselves class mentor younger students in how to be an upstander, not a bystander, when faced with bullying and intolerant acts. |
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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Location
Cleveland Office
Heights Rockefeller Building
2495 Lee Boulevard
Cleveland Heights, OH, 441182495 Lee Boulevard
United States
Office Phone: 216-321-9220
