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Museum Teacher Fellowship Program

2010–2011 Museum Fellows and Their Projects

2010–2011 Museum Fellows and Their Projects

Jennifer Baker
Sunset Junior High School in Sunset, UT
Wrote lessons and gave presentations on using maps to teach about the Holocaust and genocide in cooperation with the Utah Geographic Alliance

Yisroel Blumenstein
Yeshua Ohr Elchonon Chabad High School, Los Angeles, CA
Produced an educational film with his students, “Approaching the Holocaust: An Introduction”

Robert Gangi
East Brunswick High School in East Brunswick, NJ
Created curriculum for teaching the Holocaust in American History classes in New Jersey

Jennifer Goss
Fleetwood Area High School in Fleetwood, PA
Hosted a webinar on addressing digital and media literacy in teaching about Nazi propaganda in cooperation with Albright College

Angie Hillman
Cottonwood Middle School in Cottonwood, AZ
Wrote problem-based learning modules and gave presentations on using propaganda to teach about the Holocaust to special needs students

Rhonda Ireland
Lee’s Summit North High School in Lee’s Summit, MO
Offered a workshop for pre-service teachers in conjunction with Central Missouri State University

Karen Klaich
South Central High School in Winterville, NC
Wrote curriculum for health occupations teachers that addressed bioethics and the Holocaust

Rene MacVay
St. Augustine High School in San Diego, CA
Offered a workshop, “A Humanities Based Approach to Teaching the Holocaust,” for Catholic School Educators in the Diocese of San Diego.

Risha Mullins
Montgomery County High School in Mount Sterling, KY
Facilitated a Holocaust reading series with the Laurel County Public Library in London, Kentucky

Cynthia Peterman
Charles E Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, MD
Developed a website of Museum online resources for Jewish schools in preparation for visiting the Museum

Lynne Ravas
Lower Dauphin Middle School in Hummelstown, PA
Offered a workshop for pre-service teachers in cooperation with Pennsylvania State University—Harrisburg and Elizabethtown College

Susan Shapiro
University of Chicago Laboratory School in Chicago, IL
Facilitated a symposium, “Teaching the Holocaust Today,” for education leaders in the Chicago area

Tina Solomon
Alvin Community College in Alvin, TX
Offered a seminar for community college faculty on teaching about the Holocaust, in cooperation with the Alvin and Houston Community Colleges and Holocaust

Mark Thorsen
Ponderosa High School in Parker, CO
Presented at various professional development conferences on using non-discursive sources of testimony to teach about the Holocaust and genocide