[WSCSS] Teaching about the Holocaust - 2 upcoming workshops

2008-11-12 Thread Ilana Kennedy
The Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center is offering two incredible opportunities for teachers interested in teaching about the Holocaust: http://www.wsherc.org/PDF/ADLWSHERC_Nov20.pdf Teacher Workshop: Echoes and Reflections November 20, 2008. 4:00pm - 8:00pm. Puget Sound

[WSCSS] Holocaust Writing and Art Contest

2008-12-31 Thread Ilana Kennedy
This contest is a great way for students to connect what they have learned to their own lives. Teacher, Yakima. I plan to use this contest question as WASL practice for my students. - Teacher, Seattle Social studies teachers - please consider sharing this information with the Language

[WSCSS] Teacher Workshop - Rescuers and the Rescued

2009-01-07 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Teacher https://www.wsherc.org/PDF/RescueWrkshp_1-22-09_flyer(1).pdf Workshop - Rescuers and the Rescued Jan. 22, 2009, 4:30 - 7:30 pm Suzzallo-Allen Library, UW, Seattle $20. Clock hours available. Light dinner provided. Pre-registration required. Workshop is offered in conjunction with

[WSCSS] Jan. 29 - Holocaust Genocide Teacher Seminar - Seattle

2009-12-09 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Dear WSCSS, On January 29, 2010 the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center will be offering a one day seminar for educators: Creating Change: Teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide. Such seminars are critical to helping educators teach this sensitive, and often

[WSCSS] Teacher Seminar - Holocaust Genocide - Jan. 29, Seattle

2009-12-11 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Dear WSCSS, On January 29, 2010 the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center will be offering a one day seminar for educators: Creating Change: Teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide. Such seminars are critical to helping educators teach this sensitive, and often

[WSCSS] WSCSS - Holocaust Writing/Art Contest

2010-01-21 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Dear WSCSS - Please consider passing this information along to other teachers who might be interested. Thank you! Jacob Friedman http://www.wsherc.org/writingcontest/contest.aspx Holocaust Writing and Art Contest Open to students in grades 5-12 in the Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, ID, AK)

[WSCSS] Holocaust Writing/Art Contest Programs in Tri-Cities

2010-02-08 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Dear WSCSS, The Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center would like to remind you of several opportunities: Community Program: Stories from a Holocaust Survivor - Frieda S. Thursday, March 18, 2010. 7:00pm - 9:00pm. Benton City (Tri-Cities area). Free and open to the public!

[WSCSS] Holocaust Writing/Art Contest - Deadline Approaching!

2010-03-09 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Jacob Friedman Holocaust Writing Art Contest 2010 In honor of Anne Frank and the Anne Frank Tree sapling which will be planted in Seattle. How would your life be different if people were more respectful and tolerant of each other's differences? How does change begin with you?

[WSCSS] October 13 program - Flight from the Reich

2010-09-14 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Welcome back to school! The Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center is offering educators and the community an incredible opportunity to hear world renowned scholar, professor and author Robert Jan van Pelt speak on his new book, Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933 - 1946.

[WSCSS] Flight from the Reich - Robert Jan van Pelt in Seattle October 13!

2010-10-05 Thread Ilana Kennedy
http://www.wsherc.org/programs Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews 1933-1946 October 13, 2010. 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Free and open to the public. Robert Jan van Pelt, PhD, Holocaust scholar, professor, and author Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1511 East Pike Street, Seattle. RSVP - ila...@wsherc.org.

[WSCSS] Teacher workshop - Jan. 13 - Partisans during the Holocaust

2011-01-07 Thread Ilana Kennedy
The Holocaust Center is partnering with Hillel at the University of Washington to bring an incredible exhibit and programming to Seattle. Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photography of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman features photography from the only know Jewish partisan photographer during the

[WSCSS] IBM the Holocaust - clock hours available!

2012-09-13 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Hi Diane - would you please consider sharing this event with your educators? It's going to be a fascinating presentation and teachers have the opportunity to earn clock hours. Thank you! - Ilana http://www.wsherc.org/PDF/EdwinBlackFlyer-10-16-12.pdf IBM's Role and the Holocaust: What the New

[WSCSS] Holocaust Writing/Art Contest - Accepting Submissions!

2012-11-15 Thread Ilana Kennedy
http://www.wsherc.org/writingcontest/contest.aspx Holocaust Writing, Art and Video Contest! Submit entries now! http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001LBFqJx4g1KAYo7NDTM1jzKN8ku6wKU2wZcy-LKCnD17Z wGJei_CrIj4EB7rwZ_IqYAr3mjPiarizTLoIEDjSU1_nyEA1fWyQbmcAuOtpqOA1IBJXcwj1muAO

[WSCSS] Holocaust Teacher Seminar Bombing of Auschwitz - Jan 17-18

2013-01-08 Thread Ilana Kennedy
International Holocaust Remembrance Day* Programs January 17-18, 2013 Creating Change: Teaching about the Holocaust http://www.wsherc.org/news/news.aspx Genocide January 18, 2013 | 8:00am - 4:00pm | Museum of Flight, Seattle Register Now http://www.wsherc.org/news/registrationform.aspx

[WSCSS] Holocaust Teacher Seminar Speaker Jeannie Opdyke Smith - Spokane in November

2013-08-29 Thread Ilana Kennedy
One Person Can Make A Difference - Jeannie Opdyke Smith November 14, 6:30 - 8:00pm | Auntie's Bookstore, Spokane Jeannie Opdyke Smith, daughter of Polish rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke, shares her mother's story as a Polish rescuer during the Holocaust. Irene Gut Opdyke was named one of the

[WSCSS] Holocaust Teaching Trunks Classroom Sets of Books - Reserve yours now!

2013-09-19 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Holocaust Teaching Trunks: 5th/6th Grade, Middle School, and High School trunks available for teachers to borrow for free. Trunks will be shipped to and from your school (at no cost!). Trunks contain books, both individual titles and multiple copies of selected titles for reading groups,

[WSCSS] Holocaust Teacher Seminar - Seattle, Jan 24

2014-01-12 Thread Ilana Kennedy
With My Own Eyes: Holocaust, Genocide, Today http://www.wsherc.org/events/118-teacher-seminar-jan242014 January 24, 2014 | 8:30am - 3:30pm | At the Museum of Flight, Seattle Space is limited. Register Now! http://www.wsherc.org/registration/view/form $20. Clock hours, materials, and

[WSCSS] Deadline approaching for Holocaust Writing/Art Contest!

2014-04-06 Thread Ilana Kennedy
Holocaust Writing, Art, Digital Media Contest 2014 http://www.wsherc.org/education/writing-art-contest DEADLINE: April 25, 2014 Contest is open to students in grades 5-12 in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska). Winners will be awarded at a community program

[WSCSS] Teacher Seminar, Clock Hours, Screening of Finding Hillywood - Aug. 18

2014-07-15 Thread Ilana Kennedy
*Advanced Seminar - Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights: 70 Years After Auschwitz 20 Years After Rwanda* *Monday, August 18, 2014 | at Seattle University | 12:00pm - 5:00pm. Film and discussion 6:30pm-8:30pm.* *Keynote speakers - Jean Freedberg*, policy and programs director of the Center