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.

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Collaborative Inquiry using NIGHT: An Interview with Professor Rob Simon

Posted by Jasmine Wong on April 8, 2013


In this interview, we asked Rob Simon, Assistant Professor of Multiliteracies in Education at OISE/University of Toronto (Dept of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning), to tell us more about the Teaching to Learn Project so we could better understand how and why collaborative (teacher-adolescent) curriculum planning worked, why he chose Elie Wiesel's Night as the study text, and where he got the idea to ask project participants to paint on the pages of the text as a form of reading response.

The images below are the culmination of those responses, which were mounted in an exhibition titled After Night.

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Topics: Facing History Resources, Innovative Classrooms, Holocaust Education, Lesson Ideas, English Classroom

How Myra found inspiration to be a better teacher

Posted by Jasmine Wong on March 13, 2013

Myra Novogrodsky, who connected with Facing History as a classroom teacher back in the early ‘80s, was just honoured with a Diamond Jubilee medal for her contributions in Ontario as a community organizer, writer, and mentor. Myra shared with Facing History one place where she found her inspiration as a teacher. Here’s what she had to say:

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Topics: Holocaust Education, In the news

Choosing to Participate

Posted by Jasmine Wong on March 13, 2013

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Topics: Lesson Ideas

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