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PD hours and Co-Curricular Credits will be provided! No cost for participants – Donations are appreciated.
For more information, please contact: Sarah Coykendall, Managing Assistant Director coykends@kean.edu / (908) 737- 4632 Kean University 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ. 07083 www.kean.edu.
“Refuge Denied: Exploring The Refugee Experience In The United States From The Holocaust To The Present” Educators’ Conference — East Campus Graduate Student Lounge
Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM (Lunch Included)
Kate English is the Executive Director of the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights (EIHR). Kate taught for 18 years in Connecticut and Virginia public schools and has been recognized as District-wide Teacher of the Year, received the Joseph Zola Holocaust Educator, and serves as a Museum Teacher Fellow for the USHMM. Kate attended Summer University Srebrenica in 2011 and the Genocide Studies Institute at Keene State College in 2022, served as a Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Fellow in Ukraine, as well as a Positive Peace Ambassador with the Institute for Economics and Peace.
Karen Hikes Levine taught middle school social studies and was a lead teacher in Parsippany before retiring. She was selected as distinguished faculty for the district and is a two-time winner of the Honev and Maurice Axelrod award for excellence in Holocaust education. Karen was a Museum Teacher Fellow for the USHMM in 2006. Since that time she has been involved in a number or workshops tor the USHMM and has also mentored new teacher fellows. Karen is on the board of the Council of Holocaust Educators.
Joe Nappi is in his 18th year of teaching at Monmouth Regional High School where he currently teaches Holocaust, Genocide and Modern Humanity (ID 1800), US History and Psychology. He is a Museum Teacher Fellow with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, an Alfred Lerner Fellow and worked on the team of educators who developed lesson plans for the Ken Burns Documentary: The US and the Holocaust. He has received numerous awards and accolades for his teaching including being named twice as Monmouth Regional School District’s Teacher of the Year, The Ida & Jeff Margolis Medallion for Excellence in Multi Cultural Education (Rowan University), US Navy Distinguished Educator Award, and the Dr. Frank Kaplowitz Outstanding Human Rights Educator of the Year (Kean University.)
Presented by the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation with the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University. For more information contact Sarah Coykendall coykends@kean.edu or Sheri Rosenblum sheri@jewishpartisans.org.
Teaching Partisan Resistance: Virtual Teacher Training – – Via Zoom
Tuesday, August 16, 2022, from 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Learn about the 30,000 Jews who fought back against the Nazi and their collaborators during the Holocaust and the nmany forms of Jewish Reistance. Explore leadership, honor, and community responsibility during the times of struggle with the Teaching with the Motion Picture study guide, based upon the real-life experiences of the Bielski Brigade. Learn how to incorporate JPEF’s, arterial into your classrooms during the coming school year and beyond.
Use the film Defiance, starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber to explore History, Leadership, Ethics and Values. Participants will receive:
- Defiance DVD with Excerpts – specially made for the classroom with interviews with Bielski partisans and the film’s director – suitable for student use.
- Defiance/Bielski Partisans Curriculum – teacher’s guide to the DVD and excerpts, educational materials and lesson plans.