School Leadership to End Hate: A Winter Institute for School and District Leaders
Presented by the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, in partnership with Superintendent Thurmond’s Education to End Hate Initiative
Monday, January 27, 2025 | 8:30am – 4:30pm
California Department of Education
1430 N Street Sacramento
CA School and District Leaders (teams encouraged!) – Join us on International Holocaust Remembrance Day for School Leadership to End Hate, a one-day, in-person institute focusing on instructional and policy resources to support California administrators in building safe and inclusive school communities.
Interactive sessions include:
Identifying and addressing hate on campus, including but not limited to antisemitism and Islamophobia
A commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day with Survivor Testimony
A workshop for school and district leaders ensuring inclusive school cultures in compliance with Title VI
Sample lessons on fostering civil discourse about challenging topics and an exploration of the digital curriculum library of the California Teachers Collaborative
An opportunity to study with experts on the genocides in Rwanda and Guatemala
Offered at no cost with travel reimbursed.
Facilitating Organizations: CA Department of Education, Facing History & Ourselves, JFCS Holocaust Center and the Twige Project
California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education is a first-of-its-kind statewide network of 14 organizations, genocide survivors, and educators dedicated to enhancing Holocaust and genocide education in California schools. Our goal is to eliminate antisemitism and hate by ensuring that every middle and high school student in California receives impactful and standards-based Holocaust and genocide education.
Education to End Hate In 2020, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI), Tony Thurmond, launched a new, multifaceted “Education to End Hate” initiative designed to empower educators and students to confront the hate, bigotry, and racism rising in communities across the state and nation. Under this effort, the California Department of Education (CDE) continues to lead a series of strategies—including educator training grants, partnerships with community leaders, and virtual classroom sessions—that leverage the power of education to create a more just society free from bias or hatred, including racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, or discrimination of any kind.
The CA Collaborative was established in 2021 by the JFCS Holocaust Center. It is supported by the California Department of Education, the Marin County Office of Education, and the State of California.
