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.

Divided We Fall is the first feature-length independent documentary about hate violence in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Filmmaker Valarie Kaur documented stories in the Sikh, Muslim, and Arab American communities. Over the next five years, Kaur's journey unfolded into a larger exploration of "who counts as American." In 2005, Sharat Raju and his film crew joined Valarie as she retraced her steps across the country, revisiting her original interviewees and other scholars, lawyers, and legislators about race, religion, and security in post-9/11 America. The screening is free and open to the public. It will include a showing of the film and comments by Dr. Jaideep Singh, co-founder of the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Assistant Professor in Department of Ethnic Studies, CSUEB, and Ranjit Singh Sabharwal Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and by Neha Singh, Western Region Director of the Sikh Coalition, Fremont. A question-answer period with panelists will end the program

Bill Moyers's documentary, Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, explores the challenges faced by Chinese Americans from the 1800s to the present and raises questions about the tensions between race, democracy, and citizenship. Participants view excerpts and explore parallels between the Chinese experience and those of other newcomers to the U.S.—what it means to "become American" today.

This workshop will introduce two Holocaust related books: Anton the Dove Fancier and Parallel Journeys. In addition to connecting the content of these books to the Facing History themes of identity, membership, and conformity, facilitators will demonstrate concrete literacy strategies which teachers can implement in their classrooms.

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.

In conjunction with Facing History's content and themes of rescue during the Holocaust, participants will deepen their understanding of the ways one person can make a difference. The workshop will feature the documentary Blessed is the Match, one of Facing History's latest resources that tells the story of Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a soldier, martyr, and national heroine in Israel.

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.

This two-day workshop will explore ways to teach the Holocaust through the lens of literature using fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short stories, diaries, and memoir.

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.

What difficult choices confront individuals, groups, and nations in the face of genocide? What dangers does everyone face when nations do not confront history? Participants can learn ways of integrating Facing History's newest resource kit, Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians, into their curriculum. This is a multimedia resource for teachers which includes a resource book and companion DVD, lesson plans, and two documentary DVDs.