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Museum Teacher Fellowship Program

2008–2009 Museum Fellows and Their Projects

2008–2009 Museum Fellows and Their Projects

Andrew Beiter; U.S. History
Springville Middle School, Springville, New York
Organizing and facilitating a high school summer institute on human rights and genocide studies

La Monnia DeBerry; Language Arts
Hardin County Middle School, Savannah, Tennessee
Creating lesson plans and professional development aligned with new Tennessee curriculum standards

Jennifer Derosby; Social Studies and Language Arts
PSI Charter School, Denver, Colorado
Developing curriculum to encourage dialogue and action for underserved teacher audiences

Duane Eliff; Literature
Hardin County Middle School, Savannah, Tennessee
Creating lesson plans and professional development aligned with new Tennessee curriculum standards

Kenneth Elkins; World History and Theory of Knowledge
Central High School, Springfield, Missouri
Creating a one-semester Holocaust studies elective course

Barbara Figg; Social Studies (Holocaust, World History, AP Government, U.S. History)
Mullen High School, Denver, Colorado
Creating a blog on using archives and documents from the USHMM, the Library of Congress and Colorado University

Shauna Griffen; U.S. Studies and German
Spanish Fork High School, Spanish Fork, Utah
Creating a thematic German language curriculum that includes Holocaust education with each unit

Mark Gudgel; Literature of the Holocaust
Lincoln Southwest High School, Lincoln, Nebraska
Providing professional development to pre-service and classroom teachers on guidelines for teaching about genocide

Sara Kollbaum; English
Nashville Community High School, District #99, Nashville, Illinois
Surveying school district educators on implementation of the Illinois Holocaust education mandate

Robin Levin; Librarian and Media Specialist
Fremont County School District, Fort Washakie, Wyoming
Comparative study and curriculum development of diaries of Jewish youth and Native American boarding school students

Sarah Little; German, English and Holocaust Studies
Mingus Union High School, Cottonwood, Arizona
Partnering with Native American tribes in Clarkdale, Arizona, to provide long-distance learning opportunities

Linda Negron; English and Religion
Saint Andrews Catholic School, Fort Worth, Texas
Assessing Holocaust education in Fort Worth ISD and the Forth Worth Catholic Diocese to implement professional development

Janetta Rogers; Language Arts
Chase Middle School, Forest City, North Carolina
Developing traveling trunks to model lessons for appropriate grade levels

Matthew Rozell; History and Geography
Hudson Falls High School, Hudson Falls, New York
Researching in the Survivors Registry the liberation in 1945 of a train of prisoners on its way to Magdeburg, with a reunion of survivors and liberators