--- title: Facing Canada - A Facing History Blog | Jasmine Wong description: Jasmine Wong is a senior program associate for Facing History and Ourselves. She lives in Toronto and works with educators across Canada to provide professional learning, curriculum resources and support. --- [![Home](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/DXP%20Email/dxp-logo.svg)](https://www.facinghistory.org) ## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](https://www.facinghistory.org) 2. Facing Canada [![FacingCanadaBanner2_option2](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hs-fs/hubfs/FacingCanadaBanner2_option2.png?width=1000&name=FacingCanadaBanner2_option2.png "FacingCanadaBanner2_option2")](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/) [Home](https://www.facinghistory.org/) > [Our Blogs](https://www.facinghistory.org/about-us/our-blogs) > [Facing Canada](http://onnetwork.facinghistory.org/) > [Facing Canada](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) ## Jasmine Wong Jasmine Wong is a senior program associate for Facing History and Ourselves. She lives in Toronto and works with educators across Canada to provide professional learning, curriculum resources and support. ### Recent Posts # [We Need to Do More to Respond to Anti-Black Racism](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/we-need-to-do-more) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on June 19, 2020 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/image-8.png)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/we-need-to-do-more) Earlier this week, it came to our attention that the supports that we have been offering to Canadian educators seeking to address the murder of George Floyd, and Canada's anti-Black racism with students aren't as accessible and visible as they should, and need to be. [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/we-need-to-do-more) Topics: [Canada](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/canada), [Learning](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/learning), [Racism](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/racism) # [Dear Teachers: We start this year by recognizing all that you do](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/dear-teachers-we-start-this-year-by-recognizing-all-that-you-do) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on September 11, 2019 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/Found%20poem%20for%20teachers-1.jpg)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/dear-teachers-we-start-this-year-by-recognizing-all-that-you-do) Welcome back to another school year! We are so excited to work with you for a fresh new year of learning, and growth.  We want to start with words of appreciation for the work that you do and the relationships that you forge with your students, so we created a [found poem](https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/found-poems) for you using the text from a strategy so many of you start your school the year with:[contracting for courageous and reflective spaces](https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/contracting). [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/dear-teachers-we-start-this-year-by-recognizing-all-that-you-do) Topics: [Events](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/events) # [Ideas and Insights: A Discussion on Decolonizing and Indigenizing Classrooms, Schools and Systems](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/discussion-on-decolonizing-and-indigenizing) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on May 28, 2019 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/IMG_8749.jpg)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/discussion-on-decolonizing-and-indigenizing) On March 31st, 2019,  Facing History and Ourselves in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario partnered with *Durham District School Board, Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, Peel District School Board, Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board and York Region District School Board* to host a day long educator conference to discuss ways educators and institutional leaders have worked, and can work to decolonize and Indigenize education.   [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/discussion-on-decolonizing-and-indigenizing) Topics: [Indigenous](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/indigenous), [Decolonizing Schools](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/decolonizing-schools) # [Leading Disruption and Decolonizing Education: Wanda Nanibush in Conversation with Niigaanwewidam Sinclair](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/leading-disruption-and-decolonizing-education) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on May 28, 2019 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/Nanibush%20Sinclair%20event%20photo.jpg)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/leading-disruption-and-decolonizing-education)   On March 31st, Facing History and Ourselves, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario invited University of Manitoba scholar **Niigaanwewidam Sinclair** and Art Gallery of Ontario Curator **Wanda Nanibush** to discuss institutional disruption, decolonization and Indigenization, as part of a day-long conference for educators.  This event was recorded and can be viewed here.   [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/leading-disruption-and-decolonizing-education) # [Finding the Words to Speak After Trauma: Remembering Donia Blumenfeld Clenman](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/finding-the-words-to-speak-donia-blumenfeld-clenman) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on May 27, 2019 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/i%20dream%20in%20good%20english%20too.jpg)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/finding-the-words-to-speak-donia-blumenfeld-clenman) In the [Aftermath Project](https://www.facinghistory.org/war-only-half-story), director Sarah Terry reminds us that *war is only half the story*:  "To be fully informed, we have to know the stories of post-conflict."  It is in these stories, "where we are constantly redefining what it means to be human, what it means to live again, to rebuild civil society, to recover from trauma.  If we don't know *these* stories, then we don't really understand the world we live in, and we will repeat history again and again and again."  Through [her poetry](https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ADonia+Blumenfeld+Clenman&s=relevancerank&text=Donia+Blumenfeld+Clenman&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1), Holocaust survivor Donia Blumenfeld Clenman conveyed some of these essential stories of the aftermath of genocide.  With clarity, humanity and gentleness, her words connect us to her struggles, and teach us what it means to face - and recover - from trauma. In the month of her passing, we remember her legacy and honour her words. [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/finding-the-words-to-speak-donia-blumenfeld-clenman) Topics: [Poetry](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/poetry), [Survivor Testimony](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/survivor-testimony), [Judgement and Legacy](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/judgement-and-legacy), [difficult conversations](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/difficult-conversations), [Holocaust History in Canada](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/holocaust-history-in-canada) # [Creating Engaging Social Studies Unit Culminating Ideas: A Zoom Conversation](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/engaging-social-studies-unit-culminating-ideas-a-zoom-conversation) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on September 27, 2018 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hs-fs/hubfs/FacingCanada_Files/IMG_8827-JCR-3000-72%20%281%29.jpg?t=1538487976924&width=640&name=IMG_8827-JCR-3000-72%20%281%29.jpg)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/engaging-social-studies-unit-culminating-ideas-a-zoom-conversation) Join us on **Monday, October 15, 3:30 - 4:15pm EST** for a conversation with Facing History and Ourselves Program Associate Jasmine Wong about creating engaging curriculum based History, Anthropology/Sociology/Psychology, and Genocide Studies projects. [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/engaging-social-studies-unit-culminating-ideas-a-zoom-conversation) Topics: [project](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/project), [Middle School](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/middle-school), [Social Studies](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/social-studies), [culminating](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/culminating) # [2018-2019 Welcome Back to School](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/2018-2019-welcome-back-to-school) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on August 29, 2018 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/welcome%20back%2018-19.png)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/2018-2019-welcome-back-to-school) Leora Schaefer, Executive Director for Facing History and Ourselves Canada and Jasmine Wong, Senior Program Associate at Facing History and Ourselves Canada, introduce the new office space and share some thoughts and upcoming opportunities for Canadian educators for the start of the school year. [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/2018-2019-welcome-back-to-school) Topics: [Back-To-School](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/back-to-school) # [Taking Steps Together: One Year after the Decolonizing Schools Project](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/decolonizing-school-project-blog) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on June 14, 2018 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/IMG_0464.jpeg)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/decolonizing-school-project-blog) In spring of 2017, five high schools from across the GTA participated in “Decolonizing Schools Together,” a project started by Facing History and Ourselves’ Canadian office in consultation with Traditional Ojibway Grandmother, Kim Wheatley, Shkoden Neegan Waawaaskonen,of Shawanaga First Nation. Recently, we spoke to Kim and to the teachers who supported students through the Decolonizing Schools Together Project to share their reflections and progress.  [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/decolonizing-school-project-blog) Topics: [Grade 10 History](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/grade-10-history), [HSB](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/hsb), [CHC](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/chc), [trc](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/trc), [stolen lives](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/stolen-lives), [settler educators](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/settler-educators), [Equity in Education](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/equity-in-education), [Decolonizing Schools](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/decolonizing-schools) # [Grappling with Stories of Violence from Canada's Indian Residential Schools: Educator Workshop and Film Screening](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/grappling-with-stories-of-violence-from-canadas-indian-residential-schools) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on February 5, 2018 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/Logos/FHAO_RGB_1--1.jpg)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/grappling-with-stories-of-violence-from-canadas-indian-residential-schools)  Join us on Sunday February 25th for an educator workshop and special film screening with Director Susan G Enberg and Louis Knapaysweet, an elder and survivor of St. Anne's Residential School. [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/grappling-with-stories-of-violence-from-canadas-indian-residential-schools) Topics: [Film](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/film), [Survivor Testimony](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/survivor-testimony), [Residential Schools](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/residential-schools), [workshop](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/workshop), [CHC](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/chc), [difficult conversations](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/difficult-conversations), [trc](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/trc), [stolen lives](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/stolen-lives), [facing history pedagogy](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/facing-history-pedagogy), [settler educators](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/settler-educators) # [Activities for Engaging Your Community on Orange Shirt Day](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/activities-for-orange-shirt-day) Posted by [Jasmine Wong](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong) on September 27, 2017 [![](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/hubfs/20170918_130109-1.jpg)](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/activities-for-orange-shirt-day) On September 30th, communities will be coming together for Orange Shirt Day to honour the children who survived residential schools in Canada, to remember those who did not, and to share in a spirit of reconciliation and hope.  If you are wondering what you can do this Friday, here are a few activities you can do (other than don an orange tee) with your middle or secondary students to engage them in the head, heart and moral being in honour of this day. [Read More](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/activities-for-orange-shirt-day) Topics: [Truth and Reconciliation](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/truth-and-reconciliation), [stolen lives](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/topic/stolen-lives) [All posts](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/all) [Next](https://facingcanada.facinghistory.org/author/jasmine-wong/page/2) ### WELCOME This is where Canadian Facing History and Ourselves teachers and community members meet to share reflections, scholarship and teaching practices that will inspire, challenge and improve teaching and student learning. Our stories provide a window into diverse Facing History classrooms in Canada, and invite you into the discussion. ### Subscribe to Email Updates Search this blog... 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