For Education Administrators
Facing the Future programming supports principals, heads of schools, curriculum coordinators, and superintendents who want to spark students’ interest in complex global issues. Our approach is positive and solutions-oriented, and is designed to help students think critically while helping them achieve academically.
The curriculum resources and professional development that Facing the Future provides are academically rigorous, easy for teachers to implement into their already crowded classroom schedules, and highly engaging for students. Our extensive student and teacher outcomes assessments show that not only does our programming strongly engage students, but it does so equally effectively for students with a variety of learning styles, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Facing the Future Resources
Our curriculum resources cover global issues and sustainable solutions, and includes student textbooks, teacher lesson plans, and thematic units on sustainability and climate change.
Departments, schools, and districts are adopting Facing the Future materials to teach core skills needed for a global society, and to reach students at different learning levels and styles. Facing the Future curriculum materials are aligned with education standards and based on well-tested pedagogical models.
Curriculum Adoption
Email us if you are interested in adopting Facing the Future curriculum resources for your department, school, district, or state. Or, call us at 206-264-1503.
Professional Development and Consulting
Facing the Future offers workshops for teachers, departments, schools, districts, and states to help integrate global issues, sustainability, and service learning within and across subjects including science, social studies, language arts, math, and ESL/ELL.
Learn about our professional development offerings. See sample workshop topics, view a list of clients, and read what educators say about Facing the Future workshops.
Email or call us at 206-264-1503 if you would like to schedule an inservice workshop in your department, school, district, or state. References are available upon request.
Action Projects and Service Learning Opportunities
Facing the Future provides resources to assist educators in implementing service learning, culminating projects, and project-based learning. Our service learning section provides the latest research on service learning, examples of projects from schools, and resources for implementing projects.
Why Choose Facing the Future?
Facing the Future resources are in use in public, independent, and charter schools throughout the United States and in more than 50 other countries. Our resources are created, tested, and constantly evaluated by educators. Evaluation results show that Facing the Future resources are effective in promoting student success in the 21st century because they:
Teach vital, real-world concepts
- Fundamental concepts infused throughout Facing the Future resources include systems connections, sustainability, poverty, equity, population, consumption, health, social justice, human rights, peace and conflict, and governance.
Build core academic and life skills
- Facing the Future resources provide an engaging and effective context for teaching core subjects and skills, including reading, writing, and math.
- Facing the Future materials promote additional skills necessary for effective participation in an interconnected world: critical and creative thinking, systems thinking, problem solving, decision making, collaboration and cooperative learning, media literacy, communication skills, and global awareness.
Help close the achievement gap
- Facing the Future resources reach students at different levels and learning styles by utilizing varied teaching methods, such as group projects, kinesthetic activities, summative and formative assessments, real-world simulations, and action opportunities.
Are adaptable and easy to use
- Facing the Future lessons and readings can be used as primary materials for a global issues course or as supplemental materials in core subjects including science, social studies, language arts, math, and ESL/ELL. They can serve as an engaging contextual framework and/or as a quick “plug-in” unit.
For further reading...
Learn more about Facing the Future’s curriculum and pedagogical approach.
View Facing the Future standards alignment charts for United States science and social studies standards and select U.S. state standards.