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Analyzing Propaganda and Teaching Media Literacy - Mini Course
Analyzing Propaganda and Teaching Media Literacy - Mini Course
All Day
Workshops
May 2, 2022 (All Day) In this Mini Course, explore Echoes & Reflections resources to support the teaching of analyzing propaganda and media literacy. Click for more info
The Auschwitz Album
The Auschwitz Album
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 2, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends May 2, 2022 at 3:00pm This Echoes & Reflections session, led by Yad Vashem educator Liz Elsby, will explore the story behind the Auschwitz Album, examining what can be seen, as well as what is left out, of the photographs. Click for more info |
Jewish Americans: Identity, History, and Experience
Jewish Americans: Identity, History, and Experience
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 3, 2022 at 3:00pm Ends May 3, 2022 at 4:00pm This Echoes & Reflections session examines the rich diversity of the Jewish American community in efforts to teach students about individual identities, as well as the diversity of the Jewish American community and its impact on American society. Click for more info |
A Mother's Love: Sacrifices in Times of War
A Mother's Love: Sacrifices in Times of War
8:30am - 9:00am
(30m)
Workshops
Starts May 6, 2022 at 8:30am Ends May 6, 2022 at 9:00am Discover stories of mothers’ devotion during the Holocaust and sacrifices mothers are making today in Ukraine. Click for more info |
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A Holocaust Survivor's Blueprint for Happiness
A Holocaust Survivor's Blueprint for Happiness
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 10, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends May 10, 2022 at 3:00pm In this inspiring Echoes & Reflections session, Yad Vashem educator, Yael Eaglstein, will take us on the journey of one survivor's choices. Click for more info |
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Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Studens - 3-Week Online Course
Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Studens - 3-Week Online Course
All Day
Workshops
May 16, 2022 (All Day) Examine a range of classroom content and instructional tools to support students' study and reflection of the history of the Holocaust and its ongoing meaning in the world today through this three-part Echoes & Reflections workshop. Click for more info
Foundational Skills in Holocaust Education - 3-Part Online Course
Foundational Skills in Holocaust Education - 3-Part Online Course
All Day
Workshops
May 16, 2022 (All Day) Examine a range of classroom content and instructional tools to support students’ study and reflection of the history of the Holocaust and its ongoing meaning in the world today. Click for more info |
Examining Assimilation: AAPI & Jewish Stories in America
Examining Assimilation: AAPI & Jewish Stories in America
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 18, 2022 at 3:00pm Ends May 18, 2022 at 4:00pm How can we help students examine assimilation as a concept? Focusing on the experiences of Asian and Jewish immigrants to the United States, this Echoes & Reflections webinar will explore the problematic nature of the word to describe a process of how people adapt, fit in, and learn to become “American,” and the obstacles they face in trying to do so. Click for more info |
Wehrmacht Detention Sites and the Holocaust
Wehrmacht Detention Sites and the Holocaust
8:00am - 12:45pm
(4h 45m)
Workshops
Starts May 19, 2022 at 8:00am Ends May 19, 2022 at 12:45pm Join this international conference to learn more about the findings in the recently released volume. What new avenues for research does it open? How can the scholarship help teach about Holocaust history? Expert panels will discuss research on Soviet, Jewish, and French African POWs, military war crimes, sexual violence, and other topics. Click for more info |
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The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers and Spector/Warren Fellowship
The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers and Spector/Warren Fellowship
All Day
(6 days)
Workshops
Starts May 22, 2022 Ends May 27, 2022 The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers, funded by a generous gift from the Naomi and Martin Warren Family Foundation in Houston, Texas, is developing a corps of pre-service educators who want to learn more about the Holocaust and how to teach about it in their classrooms effectively. Click for more info |
The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers and Spector/Warren Fellowship
All Day
(6 days)
Workshops
Starts May 22, 2022 Ends May 27, 2022 The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers, funded by a generous gift from the Naomi and Martin Warren Family Foundation in Houston, Texas, is developing a corps of pre-service educators who want to learn more about the Holocaust and how to teach about it in their classrooms effectively. Click for more info |
The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers and Spector/Warren Fellowship
All Day
(6 days)
Workshops
Starts May 22, 2022 Ends May 27, 2022 The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers, funded by a generous gift from the Naomi and Martin Warren Family Foundation in Houston, Texas, is developing a corps of pre-service educators who want to learn more about the Holocaust and how to teach about it in their classrooms effectively. Click for more info
Teaching About Contemporary Antisemitism: 2021 ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents
Teaching About Contemporary Antisemitism: 2021 ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 24, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends May 24, 2022 at 3:00pm Utilizing the newly released results of the 2021 ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, this webinar will discuss how antisemitism “is rarely the lone or last expression of intolerance in a society” (Samantha Power) and explore its many manifestations from Holocaust denial/distortion to anti-Israel bias and rhetoric. Click for more info |
The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers and Spector/Warren Fellowship
All Day
(6 days)
Workshops
Starts May 22, 2022 Ends May 27, 2022 The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers, funded by a generous gift from the Naomi and Martin Warren Family Foundation in Houston, Texas, is developing a corps of pre-service educators who want to learn more about the Holocaust and how to teach about it in their classrooms effectively. Click for more info
Connecting Stories Across Genocides
Connecting Stories Across Genocides
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 25, 2022 at 3:00pm Ends May 25, 2022 at 4:00pm This webinar will examine USC Shoah Foundation's iWitness platform through the lens of connecting stories across genocides. Participants will learn about the multi-part Echoes & Reflections Teaching About Genocide resource intended to help teachers support students’ understanding of genocide in the context of their Holocaust education. Click for more info |
The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers and Spector/Warren Fellowship
All Day
(6 days)
Workshops
Starts May 22, 2022 Ends May 27, 2022 The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers, funded by a generous gift from the Naomi and Martin Warren Family Foundation in Houston, Texas, is developing a corps of pre-service educators who want to learn more about the Holocaust and how to teach about it in their classrooms effectively. Click for more info
Winning over Nazis to Win the War
Winning over Nazis to Win the War
8:30am - 9:00am
(30m)
Workshops
Starts May 26, 2022 at 8:30am Ends May 26, 2022 at 9:00am Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to learn more about Jewish refugee soldiers and the 1,600 Nazis permitted to immigrate to America. Click for more info |
The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers and Spector/Warren Fellowship
All Day
(6 days)
Workshops
Starts May 22, 2022 Ends May 27, 2022 The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers, funded by a generous gift from the Naomi and Martin Warren Family Foundation in Houston, Texas, is developing a corps of pre-service educators who want to learn more about the Holocaust and how to teach about it in their classrooms effectively. Click for more info |
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Using Photography to Teach the Holocaust
Using Photography to Teach the Holocaust
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Jun 1, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends Jun 1, 2022 at 3:00pm Yad Vashem educator, Dr. Rocco Giansante, will guide you on how to examine Holocaust photographs from the lens of the perpetrator versus that of the victim, and how to use them as effective primary sources in the classroom. Click for more info |
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