Background/Context: Billions of dollars are spent annually on professional development (PD) for educators, yet few randomized controlled trials (RCT) have demonstrated the ultimate impact PD has on student learning. Further, while policymakers and others speak to the role schools should play in developing students' civic awareness, RCTs of PD…

This article describes "Facing History and Ourselves", an international moral, character and civic education program, and introduces an assessment instrument used to explore young peoples perspectives on their and others' choices in relation to social exclusion and teasing among peers. The instrument, developed collaboratively by…