NOTE: This post by Aileen McQuillen first appeared on October 9, 2015 in Facing Today, a Facing History blog. Learn more about Facing History.
Social studies teacher Brittany Burns attended the first-ever Holocaust & Human Behavior seminar held in Denver a decade ago, and it transformed her practice. She recently adopted an innovative approach for aligning Facing History and Ourselves lessons with Common Core State Standards: she developed a Facing History unit using online curriculum development tools provided by our partner, Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC). LDC is a teacher-created instructional design system that aims to help educators meet college and career readiness standards.