Offered at no cost, with accommodations provided and travel expenses reimbursed
CA 6 – 12 grade teachers—this is your opportunity to amplify your impact!
Inspire empathy. Lead change. Educate for a better tomorrow.
Connect with leading experts, bring powerful, classroom-ready curriculum to life, and take bold action to confront antisemitism and hate in California schools.
The 2026 Summer Institute brings together more than 20 standout workshops—featuring sessions such as:
- Predicting Violence: Why Does Genocide Happen?
- Hashtags against Hate: Historical Propaganda and Modern Misinformation
- Navigating Critical Conversations & Fostering Civil Discourse
- Antisemitism After the Holocaust
- Overlooked Voices of the Holocaust: The Roma and Sinti Experience
- Teaching the Cambodian Genocide with Testimony
- Genocide in Darfur, Sudan: Lessons of Intervention and Prevention
Engage with in-depth workshops on the Assyrian, Armenian, Bosnian, Cambodian, and Uyghur genocides—expanding how you teach the Holocaust and genocide in today’s classrooms.
This year offers a truly special opportunity: attendees will be among the first to experience the newly renovated Holocaust Museum LA—stepping into its reimagined spaces and engaging with powerful new content at a pivotal moment.
The Summer Institute of the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, co-hosted by the JFCS Holocaust Center and the USC Shoah Foundation, is offered at no cost to teachers, with travel reimbursed, with support from the CA Department of Education, Marin County Office of Education, and the State of California.