Marjorie Agosin, recipient of the United Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights was raised in Santiago, Chile until the 1973 coup. She is the author of poetry and prose about human rights, memory, and Jewish identity. Her work exemplifies the power of language to effect change and give voice.

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 will explore the Facing History and Ourselves resource book, Choices in Little Rock—a collection of teaching suggestions, activities, and primary sources that focus on the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. These efforts led to a crisis that historian Taylor Branch once described as "the most severe test of the Constitution since the Civil War." These resources explore a range of civic choices—the decisions people make as citizens in a democracy. Those decisions, both then and now, reveal that democracy is not a product but a work in progress, a work that is shaped in every generation by the choices that people make about themselves and others. In this workshop, participants will consider ways to engage students in the issues raised by this history and its civic implications for their lives today. Choices in Little Rock can be used not only to teach history but also to deepen and enrich a study of civics, government, and literature. Participants will receive the Choices in Little Rock teaching guide, which contains suggestions for lesson plans, reproducible readings, and copies of documents for students to analyze. Attending this workshop will also make teachers part of the Facing History and Ourselves Educator Network. This entitles them to free borrowing from FH's extensive Lending Library, full access to all of FH's Educator Resources, including lessons, teaching strategies, online modules, discussion forums, and more, as well as ongoing personalized curricular support from a Facing History staff member.

This workshop will use Facing History's resource Stitching Truth: Women's Protest Art in Pinochet's Chile to examine the story of how women in Chile used arpilleras, brightly colored tapestries, to confront a dictatorship and restore democracy using nonviolent methods. This resource is part of Facing History's "Making History" series, about people and groups who chose to make a difference.

This workshops will explore the Facing History and Ourselves resource, Choices in Little Rock, about the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. This resource can be used to teach civics and enrich a study of history and literature. Scholarships are available for Boston Public School (BPS) eighth-grade social studies teachers, though the workshop is open to all educators. BPS educators must register with Facing History and at mylearningplan.com.

In a climate of fear, sisters, wives, and mothers of the victims of Pinochet's dictatorship searched for their loved ones. They found their voice through the folk art of embroidery, telling their stories through colorful tapestries. Using Facing History's resource book and lessons, this workshop explores the role of art in fighting for justice and social change and includes primary sources, poetry, and art. This workshop will take place at Northwestern University's main library where the tapestries will be on display during the month of November.

This half-day workshop will be an introduction to Facing History and Ourselves and our Chicago Public Schools, Choices in Little Rock Initiative. Teachers will be given materials and resources to prepare for the later three-day workshop. The workshop will also answer questions about participating in the Initiative. Pilot teachers will be available to share experiences and answer questions.

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.

Highlighting two resources from Facing History's "Making History" series, this workshop will reflect on Raphael Lemkin's tireless efforts to, in response to the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, define and outlaw genocide. They will also examine the story of a group of women in Chile whose brightly colored tapestries, or arpilleras, played a leading role in the nonviolent movement for human rights during Pinochet's rule from 1973–1990.

This is a two-day workshop for Boston Public Schools teachers who will be teaching the Civil Rights Movement in their 10th-grade U.S. History courses. The seminar will focus on three units: "The murder of Emmett Till," "Voting Rights: From Selma to Montgomery," and "Desegregation of Boston Schools." All BPS Teachers must also register with the Boston Public Schools at www.mylearningplan.com.