[hr-education-na] Teacher-training on the Armenian genocide

San Francisco, CA - The Genocide Education Project and Facing History and
Ourselves continue to build a strong partnership in training U.S. teachers
about the Armenian Genocide. During the past school year the two
organizations assisted each other with four workshops located between
Detroit, Michigan and San Francisco, California. Plans are in the works
for at least three workshops this fall.

The latest event in San Francisco was hosted by Facing History and
Ourselves and served approximately twenty teachers from all over
California. The participants attended a week long institute on the
Armenian Genocide on the KZV Armenian School campus, where they had an
opportunity to learn effective teaching strategies and hear from lecturers
including world renowned scholar Dr. Richard Hovannisian. The Genocide
Education Project provided a two hour seminar on geopolitical conditions
in the 1800s that fueled the Genocide and also hosted a viewing of the
documentary "The Genocide in Me" by Araz Artinian.

This institute followed two all-day workshops organized by the Genocide
Education Project and sponsored by the Los Angeles Unified School
District, during which Facing History and Ourselves provided a session on
moral decision making and genocide. The workshops in Los Angeles will
continue on a semi-annual basis for two more years.

Coming up in December, The Genocide Education Project will offer a lecture
titled "Teaching about Genocide in the Age of Genocide" at the National
Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference in Washington D.C. This
clinic was developed in collaboration with Facing History and Oursleves,
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the educational organization,
Choices, at Brown University.

The director of the Northern California office for Facing History and
Ourselves, Jack Weinstein, a member of the advisory board for The Genocide
Education Project noted, "I've been working with The Genocide Education
Project for over ten years now, and look forward to our continued
collaboration through this relationship." Weinstein continues to stress
that "together, we can reach out to more schools, teachers, and students,
further ensuring that the history and lessons of the Armenian Genocide
will be a part of social studies courses across the country."

For more information about The Genocide Education Project's upcoming
events with Facing History and Ourselves please visit:
www.teachgenocide.org/workshops_events.

 
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The Genocide Education Project is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3)
organization that assists educators in teaching about human rights and
genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide, by developing and
distributing instructional materials, providing access to teaching
resources and organizing educational workshops.

 
Contact:
Raffi Momjian
The Genocide Education Project
51 Commonwealth Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 264-4203
www.TeachGenocide.org

 

 

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