TORONTO, Canada | October 1, 2026 Natalia Onyschuk, a Music teacher at St. Matthew School in the Edmonton Catholic School District, is the recipient of the 2026 HREC Educator Award for Holodomor Lesson Plan Development. This is Onyschuk’s second HREC E...

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HREC Education Expands an Established Partnership A new 2026 Memorandum of Cooperation brings together the Ukrainian Institute of Education Development (UIED), a state-run organization under Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science, establish...

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Ukraine is introducing a new model curriculum dedicated to one of the most urgent lessons of history: understanding genocide and learning how to recognize and resist the forces that make it possible. In September, Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Sci...

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Toronto | Sep 4, 2026 Interview with Valentina Kuryliw The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has served to galvanize global reassessment of how the Holodomor-Famine Genocide of 1932–33 is taught, understood, and memorialized. The contemporary ...

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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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Summer of 2025: Uzhhorod, in the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine, hosted the 8th annual Verba Magistri (“In the words of teachers”) Methodology Lab Summer Institute for Educators at the New Ukrainian School (26 July–6 August). A unique 10-day ga...

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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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