Elevate your teaching of the Holocaust and genocide—Join us for the 2025 Summer Institute!
Offered at no cost, with travel expenses reimbursed, for California 6-12 grade teachers.
As a participant you will:
CONNECT with leading museums, non-profit organizations, and individual experts in Holocaust and genocide education who comprise the California Teachers Collaborative.
IMPLEMENT new standards-based curricula developed by the Collaborative with accompanying professional development and personalized support.
TAKE ACTION to address the surge of antisemitism and hate in California school communities.
Summer Institute Workshops Include:
Antisemitism After the Holocaust | Echoes & Reflections
Armenian Genocide and the Risk of Cultural Extinction | The Genocide Education Project
Aron’s Story: A Virtual Museum of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe | Avenues for Change
Building Resistance: Foundations of Resistance | Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Choosing to Participate: Moving From Reflection to Action | Facing History & Ourselves
Defining Jewish Identity: Jewish Life After the Holocaust | Echoes & Reflections
Female Resistance and Empowerment During the Holocaust | Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Hashtags Against Hate: Holocaust Education in the Social Media Age | Holocaust Museum LA
Introduction to Teaching about Genocide | Echoes & Reflections
It Starts with Words | Echoes & Reflections
Jewish Communities in Wartime North Africa: Voices of the Holocaust | Facing History & Ourselves
Keep the Promise – Armenian Genocide: Testimony-Based Education | USC Shoah Foundation
Laws and Decrees as an Instrument of Tyranny | Central Valley Holocaust Educators’ Network
Ongoing Impacts of the Bosnian, Cambodian, and Uyghur Genocides | Avenues for Change, Cambodian Genocide Resource Center, Uyghur Genocide Online Resource Group
Painted Words: Teaching the Holocaust through the Art of Sam Bak, Child Survivor | JFCS Holocaust Center
Power of Testimony: Collective Memory and Historical Truth | Museum of Tolerance
Roots of Hate | Museum of Tolerance
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Through Survivor and Witness Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation
Teaching the Human Story of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi | TWIGE Project
Teaching the Human Story of the Guatemalan Genocide | TWIGE Project
The Influence of Scientific Racism and Eugenics on Modern Genocide | Facing History & Ourselves
Understanding the Dimensions of the Uyghur Genocide | Uyghur Genocide Online Resource Center
Using Artifacts and Literature to Teach the Armenian Genocide | The Genocide Education Project
Voices of Survival: Teaching the Cambodian Genocide through Testimony | Cambodian Genocide Resource Center
Witness Through Words: Teaching Holocaust & Genocide Literature with Empathy, Context, and Care | Facing History & Ourselves
