Two major national curriculum initiatives are transforming how the Holodomor can be taught in Canadian classrooms—bringing rigorous, curriculum-aligned, free and open-access resources to educators and students at an unprecedented scale. After more than ...

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The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC Education) and Facing History & Ourselves (FHAO) marked a significant milestone in April with their first formal collaboration, bringing together secondary educators from the Toronto District Schoo...

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HREC Education is proud to announce the completion of a landmark three-year curriculum development initiative undertaken in partnership with The Critical Thinking Consortium (TC²), one of Canada’s leading educational organizations recognized for its e...

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With thanks from our colleagues at the Ukrainian Language Education Centre at CIUS, University of Alberta. From their ULEC Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 5, June 2025.     From May 16 to 18, the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) pa...

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16 April 2025 • 7pm EDT / 5pm MDT / 4pm PDT Author Cynthia LeBrun reading from her historical fiction Black Sunfowers. Read details Join HREC Education’s invited host Mateusz Świetlicki with author Cynthia LeBrun reading from her historical fiction B...

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Valentina Kuryliw, Director of Education of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Chair of the National Holodomor Education Committee (NHEC) of the Ukrainian Canadian Congres...

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Holodomor Memorial Day Holodomor Memorial Day in Schools: the 4th Friday of November On the 29 May of 2008, the Parliament of Canada unanimously passed an “Act to Establish a Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day and to Recognize the U...

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Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2025. About The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces its 2025 HREC Educator Award marking the commemoration of the Ukrainian genocide known as the Holodomor, which took place on the territory of Ukr...

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Join educator and graphic novel specialist Anastasia Ulanowicz in conversation with author Andrea Chalupa to talk about her latest graphic novel In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones (Oni Press: 3 Sept. 2024, 144 pages; illustrated by Brazilian ...

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As part of HREC Education’s ongoing three-way Verba Magistri partnership with the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine and HREC in Ukraine, Director Valentina Kuryliw’s latest lesson, The Historian’s Craft Lesson on Human Rights and...

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