Holocaust Education Workshop for Teachers
We are pleased to inform you that middle and high school social studies and language arts teachers in your county are invited to attend a multi-county Holocaust education teacher workshop. This workshop will be held inShalom Park at The Levine JCC in Charlotte on March 22, 2012. This workshop is of particular interest to social studies teachers teaching American history or world history and sixth-grade teachers teaching about Eastern Europe. It is also of interest to language arts teachers teaching the Diary of Anne Frank in the middle grades or Elie Wiesel's novel about the Holocaust, Night or other literature of the Holocaust at the high-school level. All workshop participants will also receive copies of the resource guide The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teachers' Resource, published by the N.C. State Department of Public Instruction in cooperation with the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust.
Featured speakers at this one-day conference will be a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, or survivors who have been imprisoned in forced labor camps, or whose family escaped from Nazi Germany just before Kristallnacht. Holocaust scholar Dr. Karl Schleunes, former chair of the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and author of The Twisted Road to Auschwitz and Legislating the Holocaust: The Nuremburg Lawswill also speak.The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., March 22, 2012. Substitute pay will be provided for all public school teachers attending.
We ask your cooperation in distributing the enclosed forms to the appropriate teachers at all middle and high schools in your county and hope you will let teachers know about this upcoming workshop as soon as possible. Please note the due date for return of the registration forms is March 20.
Examining the Holocaust
March 22, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Workshop Site:
The Levine JCC
At Shalom Park
5007 Providence Road
Charlotte, NC 28226
For directions to the workshopcontact Donald Mitchell byemail at or by phone at (980) 343-2744.
Enrollment is open to social studies and language arts/English teachers at the middle and high school levels. Substitute pay will be provided for all public school teachers attending.
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Please return by March 20 to the following address:
Linda Scher
324 Westridge Drive
Raleigh, NC 27609