Too often, as has become glaringly apparent in our current national climate, an emphasis on difference has potential for creating misunderstandings that lead to violence. Developing empathy will help students see others as human--individuals with feelings, beliefs, reasons--regardless of ethnicity, gender, and ideology.

As a result of this webinar, participants will:

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate how to powerfully engage English language learners in the study of the Holocaust through audiovisual testimony. Drawing upon resources and content found in Echoes & Reflections and other sources, participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies that can promote English language learners’ understanding of the Holocaust while also building academic language.

USC Shoah Foundation Associate Director of Education - Educational Technologies and Training Claudia Wiedeman will participate in a Q&A alongside director Ryan Suffern and subject Freddy Peccerelli after this free screening of "Finding Oscar."

Teach About Kristallnacht Through Testimony. Join us on October 19th at 4PM PDT

Bring your lesson to life with personal testimonies from those who lived through Kristallnacht
Promote your students' close reading of audiovisual testimony

In this webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, participants will explore testimony-based multimedia activities, resources, and tools available in IWitness–the educational website integrated with Echoes & Reflections to enhance teaching of the Holocaust. Participants will learn how audiovisual testimony of witnesses to the Holocaust serves as a powerful tool for engaging students in meaningful ways.

Holding Respectful Conversations. Join us on September 28th at 4PM PDT

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website.

Learn to Use Digital Teacher Tools in IWitness. Join us on August 17th at 4PM PDT

Learn to use a virtual classroom to engage students in powerful learning through testimonies of witnesses to 20th century history
Learn to monitor and assess student work

Acclaimed writer and Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt will be a special guest at an evening of conversation with USC Shoah Foundation at Aspen Jewish Community Center Wednesday, August 9 at 5 p.m. The program is complimentary and open to the public.

Lipstadt will open the evening with remarks about Holocaust denial and its role in global antisemitism.

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate how to powerfully engage English language learners in the study of the Holocaust through audiovisual testimony. Drawing upon resources and content found in Echoes & Reflections and other sources, participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies that can promote English language learners’ understanding of the Holocaust while also building academic language.

A thematic seminar that will interweave content related to both the Holocaust and present-day experiences of intolerance and persecution. The
seminar is inquiry-based, inviting teachers to acknowledge and incorporate the culture of their students into their curriculum and the broader
classroom experience. The program takes a writing based approach to Holocaust and social justice education.

Speakers and events will include:

Teach Across the Curriculum Using Powerful Audiovisual Testimony
Join us on July 20th at 4PM PDT
 

Learn about IWitness, a free educational website offering audiovisual testimonies for use across the curriculum
Learn how to access, use and create curriculum with audiovisual testimony

In this webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, participants will explore testimony-based multimedia activities, resources, and tools available in IWitness–the educational website integrated with Echoes & Reflections to enhance teaching of the Holocaust. Participants will learn how audiovisual testimony of witnesses to the Holocaust serves as a powerful tool for engaging students in meaningful ways.

The one-day training will introduce Detroit area educators to IWitness and strategies for using testimony in the classroom, including how to integrate testimony across the curriculum and how to create testimony-curriculum plans for their individual classrooms.

Promote Close Reading of Text through Audiovisual Primary Sources. Join us on June 15th at 4PM PDT

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website.

In this webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, participants will explore testimony-based multimedia activities, resources, and tools available in IWitness–the educational website integrated with Echoes & Reflections to enhance teaching of the Holocaust. Participants will learn how audiovisual testimony of witnesses to the Holocaust serves as a powerful tool for engaging students in meaningful ways.

Learn to seamlessly develop students' digital literacy and arts education
Explore multimedia activities for use in arts classrooms


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This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate how to powerfully engage English language learners in the study of the Holocaust through audiovisual testimony. Drawing upon resources and content found in Echoes & Reflections and other sources, participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies that can promote English language learners’ understanding of the Holocaust while also building academic language.

The one-day training will introduce Detroit area educators to IWitness and strategies for using testimony in the classroom, including how to integrate testimony across the curriculum and how to create testimony-curriculum plans for their individual classrooms.