This is the fourth story in our series, “A Network of Innovation: Ideas, Questions, and Wisdom from our LA Partner Schools.” Cleveland Humanities Magnet has a long history of innovative, interdisciplinary, and rigorous educational programming. Upon joining the Facing History Los Angeles Partnership School Network four years ago, two 12th-grade teachers attended a summer seminar on the Holocaust and Human Behavior. Victor Silva teaches the historical anchor of an interdisciplinary unit that combines philosophy, literature and digital humanities. He has also developed a remarkable memorial project that challenges his students to go beyond learning and consider how they will ensure this history is not forgotten.
Memorializing as Upstanding: Culminating an Interdisciplinary Unit on the Holocaust
Posted by Jason David on May 12, 2022
Topics: Memorials, Memory, Memorial, Upstander, Holocaust and Human Behaviour, unit, interdisciplinary
Reconstruction: Uncovering the True Story and Its Legacy Today
Posted by Guest Blogger on May 10, 2022
This guest blog is part of a series, “A Network of Innovation: Ideas, Questions, and Wisdom from our LA Partner Schools.” Much like his Valor Academy colleague Ben Katcher, who published a prior post on teaching The Nanjing Atrocities, first-year history teacher Elijah Falk has developed a powerful unit that challenges students to make contemporary connections to historical injustices and grapple with the ways in which pivotal events in history have been distorted. His unit on The Reconstruction Era exemplifies how accurate portrayals of and deep engagement with history can illuminate the importance of choices students make in their everyday lives.
Topics: Reconstruction, History, Civil War, Judgement and Legacy, Slavery, white supremacy, racial justice, agency, unit, abolition