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 ...
Continue Reading HREC Education Advances Holodomor Education Across Canada Through Landmark Curriculum PartnershipsThe 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...
Continue Reading HREC Education and Facing History & Ourselves Launch First Joint Professional Learning Day for Ontario EducatorsHREC 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...
Continue Reading National Holodomor Curriculum Initiative Launched in Partnership with Critical Thinking Consortium (TC²)La méthode historique, l’Holodomor et les droits de la personne, publiée par CIUS Press en janvier 2026 (90 pages), propose une approche éducative globale permettant d’enseigner aux élèves les droits de la personne et l’Holodomor de manière ca...
Continue Reading La Méthode Historique, l’Holodomor et les Droits de la PersonneRecipient Announced: Oct 1, 2026. About The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces its 2026 HREC Educator Award marking the commemoration of the Ukrainian genocide known as the Holodomor, which took place on the territory of Ukraine ...
Continue Reading 2026 HREC Educator Award for Holodomor Lesson Plan DevelopmentWith 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...
Continue Reading HREC Education at the 2025 NCUE Conference16 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...
Continue Reading Author Cynthia LeBrun reading from her historical fiction Black SunfowersValentina 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...
Continue Reading “The Historian’s Craft Lesson on the Holodomor” is available for free download in November 2024Continue Reading Майстерня історика. Права людини та Голодомор: викладання історії в ХХІ столітті. Методична розробка уроку. – Київ: HREC PRESS, 2021.
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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