Teacher Workshops
We Must Bear Witness: Teaching the Holocaust in Indiana Classrooms
Indiana middle and high school teachers can attend a full-day workshop in April that will help them become proficient teachers of the Holocaust. Workshops are discounted for Jewish educators.
April 22, 2010
7:45 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
6711 Hoover Road
Indianapolis, Indiana 46260
Priority registration and payment of $25 must arrive by April 14, 2010. Registration fee after April 14 is $30. Special scholarships available for Jewish educators. Registration Fee includes continental breakfast, materials, lunch, and 3 CRU credits.
Download the tentative workshop schedule and break-out session descriptions.
Click here to download a registration form.
Featuring Elaine Culbertson
Elaine Culbertson is the chair of the Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Council, a statewide organization of teachers, survivors, and liberators who volunteer to keep the lessons of the Holocaust alive in the schools of the state. Elaine represents the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a museum fellow and a Regional Education Consultant in the Mid-Atlantic states.
Elaine retired as the director of Curriculum and Instruction in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District in 2006, ending a 36 year career in public education that included more than 30 years in the School District of Philadelphia. She presently works as a consultant in both the for-profit and not-for-profit education worlds.
She is the program director of the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program, a nationally recognized program that has sponsored educational experiences for more than 900 teachers in its 25 year history. She works with teachers and students to connect the events of the past with the genocides of the present day. Elaine has been published and has lectured across the United States and internationally, using the story of her own parents’ survival as the basis for her presentations on developmentally appropriate and morally responsible pedagogy.
Also Including United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellows
Dr. David Lindquist
Formerly the Social Studies Department Chair at R. Nelson Snider High School in Fort Wayne, David is now on the faculty of the School of Education at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he also serves as co-director of IPFW's Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is a Museum Teacher Fellow and Regional Museum Educator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a Fellow of the Teacher Fellowship Program of the Ameircan Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
Kelly Watson
Kelly is an 8th Grade English teacher at Fishers Jr. High in Fishers, Indiana, and is a 2001 Mandel Fellow from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She is a frequent presenter about the Holocaust and other genocides, giving workshops at the BJE, the National English Teachers Convention, the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators at the USHMM, and for various schools and community groups throughout the Midwest. In 2002 Mrs. Watson published, along with her student interviewers, the book Indiana Voices of the Holocaust: Teens talk to Survivors and Liberators.
For More Information on Teacher Workshops, contact Miles Roger at the BJE at 255-3124 ext. 3706 or e-mail.
