Founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund and bestselling author Marian Wright Edelman examines how to make the nation and world safe and fair for all children. She will also offer insights from her new book The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small.

This workshop is specially crafted for the needs of Memphis City Schools' middle school exploratory teachers. It will focus on Facing History content and teaching strategies which are developmentally appropriate for the sixth–eight grade student. Time will be provided for experienced Facing History teachers to work with novice ones to share successes and challenges in using the program at the middle-school level.

How do societies integrate newcomers? In this workshop, participants will engage with stories of Muslim immigration to Europe and make connections to debates about difference in their own community. Among the many topics they will examine is the role of religion in public life. This workshop is specifically designed for high school teachers who are teaching the Facing History and Ourselves Semester Elective. In this one-day workshop, teachers will unite with other elective teachers to share best practices, discuss challenges, and celebrate triumphs. The agenda is designed to address both content and pedagogy.

This workshop, using the Facing History and Ourselves resource books Race and Membership and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's exhibit "Race: Are We So Different?," will examine questions of race and identity and their impact on American history. Participants will view the exhibit in addition to examining themes and classroom applications.

Teachers can come enjoy an interactive, stimulating, and productive Sunday with Facing History and Ourselves to help jump start the school year. This is a workshop designed for teachers who recently completed a summer seminar and for anyone who would like to think practically about how to implement Facing History this year.

This workshop will explore the history of immigration, race, and citizenship in the United States through the use of Facing History and Ourselves's resources and pedagogical framework. What does it mean to become an American? How have immigrants fought for rights and claimed ownership of their own American identities? The workshop will focus on specific events in U.S. and world history that shaped U.S. immigration policies and affected the lives of immigrants.

This two-day workshop will explore how beliefs about race have shaped—and challenged—American's identity as a land of "freedom and opportunity." It will look at significant events and movements in American history—slavery, immigration, the eugenics movement, the Civil Rights Movement—and will consider legacies of each in American society today. Ultimately, this journey will bring participants back to the present. Examining American history through the lens of race and membership empowers teachers and their students to value how their choices shape contemporary America. Participants will receive a resource book and membership in the Facing History and Ourselves Teacher Network.

How do societies integrate newcomers? In this workshop, participants will engage with stories of Muslim immigration to Europe and make connections to debates about difference in our own community. Among the many topics they will examine is the role of religion in public life.

How can educators use history to help inform students about the treatment of gays and lesbians in the past and today, and how are schools responding to name-calling, bullying, ostracism, and outright violence against our communities? In this session, participants will examine examples from history, including the treatment of homosexuals under the Nazi regime, to help guide the conversation.

In every generation, Americans have asked, "Who may live among us?" and "What does it mean to be an American?" The way we have addressed these questions throughout history is central to understanding of the nation's past and can guide people in the choices they make today as individuals and as a nation committed to democracy. Participants will tour "Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration" and receive resources to explore this exhibition and its companion exhibition created by Facing History students, "The Way We See It: L.A. Teens on Immigration."