Facing History and Ourselves Inc.

Facing History and Ourselves is in the final year of a growth plan and is well on track to meet its objectives. Our priorities are deepening impact, creating content, strengthening infrastructure, innovating digitally, cultivating systemic change, and promoting public conversation. These priorities are organized around three interdependent growth areas:

-Civic education: Investments in this area help to infuse whole classrooms, schools, and districts with an approach to education that fosters academic engagement with positive social-emotional learning gains.
-Content and innovation: Growth in this area extends Facing History's world-class scholarship and capacity for developing and sharing timely and relevant content, as well as for fostering learning communities among our network of teachers.
-Public engagement: Because no classroom exists in isolation, it is critical to engage members of the greater community in the conversations that begin with students and teachers in Facing History classrooms.

Facing History plans to implement its goals by:
- Positioning FHAO as a single school provider on programming that meets three critical education needs: social-emotional learning, civic education, and equity education.
- Focusing on systemic work in education by developing a school and district model where FH can be implemented throughout the system
- Adopting an online platform where we can begin to deliver self-paced learning and professional development to a large number of educators beyond the regions where we have presence

Facing History has more than 175 staff members at eight offices in the United States, partner entities in Canada and the UK, and educational partnerships around the world, including in South Africa, Rwanda, China, and Israel. In the 2014-15 school year, the organization conducted more than 375 professional development seminars, workshops, and webinars, both face-to-face and online. More than 1,200 educators participated in 50 in-depth seminars throughout the 2014-15 school year. Facing History has partnerships with school districts across the country, and a growing network of 79 Innovative Schools which implement Facing History across disciplines and grade levels, embracing the organization's core themes as foundational to their schools' missions.

Facing History is a world-class education and professional development organization committed to helping shape the next generation of informed civic participants worldwide. Through professional development training, follow-up support, and best-in-class educational resources, Facing History equips middle and high school educators to teach classroom lessons and units that integrate social-emotional learning, equity practices, and civic knowledge and skills into core academic content, including history, social studies, and English/Language Arts.

By studying the root causes of the Holocaust and other historical events marked by antisemitism, racism, and intolerance, students gain an understanding not only of how the past informs our world today, but also of the responsibility of individuals and groups to make a difference in their communities and in broader society. Facing History has a global footprint with seven U.S. sites and two international partner entities. In total, more than 145,000 educators in 134 countries use Facing History’s training and resources in their classrooms and, in turn, impact millions of students.

Facing History's effectiveness has been demonstrated by more than 140 external and internal evaluation studies that show Facing History positively impacts students’ skills for analyzing history, sense of civic agency, empathy, acceptance of those who do not share their beliefs, and prosocial behavior. Since 2015, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has rated Facing History and Ourselves as one of the top U.S. programs for social-emotional learning (SEL) for both middle and high school students. CASEL also recognizes us for using strategies that support educational equity, one of only nine models for 7-12th graders that do so. In 2020, Facing History’s SEL program was added to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) list of approved programs; we are one of only eight approved programs for middle schools and one of only four approved for high schools.