Professional Development Workshops

1. Teaching the Holocaust & Genocide: Remembrance, Education, Building Resiliency

Why and how do we teach about these difficult topics? This presentation works with the needs and concerns of teachers to provide guiding thoughts utilizing frameworks for civic education. Using competencies for democratic citizenship we will examine process, choice, and prevention. We will explore the pedagogical and contemporary challenges and considerations facing today’s classroom teacher.

2. The Camera as Weapon: Deconstructing Nazi and Atrocity Imagery for Media Competency

Photographs do not merely capture or illustrate the historical past, they interpret it. How do we construct and deconstruct narratives? How wo we evaluate and decode those images? We will use media literacy and competency expectations to evaluate the use and abuse of photographs.

3. Teaching Anne Frank: To Be Free, to Be Myself

How do we remember Anne and those hiding in the Secret Annex and why? How can Anne’s diary. Story, and voice help our students discover their voice? How do we encounter antisemitism and hate as a “lived experience”?

4. Teaching Elie Wiesel: Trauma, Remembrance, and Hope

Why do we write? Why would a survivor write about the Holocaust? How? This workshop looks at the construction of Night; the questions it raises; its Hasidic framework; and how to teach it as the beginning of a journey against despair and towards resiliency.

5. NH’s Holocaust and Genocide Education Mandate: Building Resiliency Through Education

NH requires social studies classes to utilize existing curricula to implement Holocaust and genocide education. What is this requirement and what are some best practices and frameworks to help meet the minimum standards and provide opportunities for personal and professional growth?