Podcast Prompts & Questions

Creation of Facing History and Ourselves Curricula

1. What was your first experience with Facing History?

2. What did you hope for in engaging in this work?

  • Why/when did you decide to play more of an active role in FH’s curriculum development or professional learning work?

  • Alternately, at what point did you want Facing History to play an active role in partnering on curriculum development or professional development for your institution?

3. What were the challenges that came up in the work?

  • Can you share about a moment that stands out

  • What do you think are the most two important takeaways from how you worked together?

4. What were the most positive outcomes of the work, both personally for you and collectively for education/students/etc?

  • Can you share about a moment that stands out?

Co-Constructing, Co-Teaching, Teamwork

5. Reflecting on your experience working with the staff at Facing History, and other experiences working in partnership in education, what about the work and way of working sustains you? 

6. How does the co-creation of curriculum and programming impact your pedagogy? 

7. What types of relationships were forged during the cultivation of curriculum (insert Stolen Lives or MMIW) and do you maintain any of those relationships today?

8. Could you discuss the advantages and disadvantages of working in teams?

9. Have you noticed a difference in how you teach since working in partnership with other educators outside of FH?

Ideas of Justice, Individual & Communal Values

10. What does justice mean to you in the context of education? What are the elements of education that need to be changed for education to be just?

  • How does justice in education interact with justice more broadly in society for you?

12. How did you try to serve/ achieve/ reach for justice in the curriculum you co-developed? 

13. Justice, truth, and reconciliation in education have finally become topics in general Canadian discourse. How will this support your goals?

Justice & Facing History and Ourselves Canada

14. Does Facing History align effectively with your personal values and views on education and justice? How or how not?

15. What are the limitations of FH? What is effective about it? 

16. Do you think the FH curriculum could be replicated for other sensitive subject matters?