Teacher Workshops

We Must Bear Witness: Teaching the Holocaust in Indiana Classrooms

Indiana middle and high school teachers can attend an evening workshop in April that will help them become proficient teachers of the Holocaust. Workshops are discounted for Jewish educators.

April 12, 2011
6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
6711 Hoover Road
Indianapolis, Indiana 46260

Priority registration and payment of $25 must arrive by April 1, 2011.  Registration fee after April 1 is $30.  Special scholarships available for Jewish educators.  Registration Fee includes dinner, materials, lunch, and 2 PGP points.

Click here to download a registration form.

Featuring Phillip Lande

Phillip Lande is a second generation survivor of the Holocaust.  Mr. Lande goes to schools telling his father's experiences in the Holocaust and the importance of each life that was saved.  Participants will learn how second generation survivor testimonies are equally beneficial as survivors of the Holocaust are passing away.

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.