News from the 19th Floor – Alfred Lerner Fellows – December 2017
News from the 19th Floor
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CONGRATS TO TAWNY ANDERSON
Tawny Anderson (Lerner Fellow 2016) was awarded the Florida Council for the Social Studies High School Teacher of the Year for 2017. She was also awarded the prestigious Theron Trimble award for Outstanding Teaching in a High School Social Studies classroom. Tawny was nominated by inSight Through Education, one the JFR’s Holocaust Centers of Excellence, to attend the Summer Institute for Teachers at Columbia University. Twany teaches at Wellington Community High School, Wellington, FL.
Advanced Seminar
We are all set for our Advanced Seminar. The program is capped at 24 participants and we have a waiting list. The readings are excellent and the scholars – the best!
EUROPEAN STUDY PROGRAM TO GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS
We will be announcing our study program to Germany and the Netherlands by January. Buchenwald will be one of the places we visit. Since we are traveling in Western Europe, the Study Program will be a little more expensive than our previous programs. Please let me know if you are interested in joining us this summer – [email protected]. We are exploring several different ways of providing the plane ticket. We can purchase a group ticket which means that everyone leaves from Newark International Airport at the same time and returns with the group or we provide the cost of the land only and everyone purchases their own plane ticket. I would like to hear back from folks as to your preference.
ARTIFACT BOX
I will be in London, England later this month to meet with Dr. Christine Schmidt, Deputy Director and Head of Research, The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, and Paul Salmons, Programme Director, UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, University College London, to review the objects for the Artifact Box and to finalize the Teacher’s Guide. If you would like to help review the Teacher’s Guide, please let me know. I may not be able to involve everyone, but I would like to know who is interested in helping. When responding, please indicate the grade(s) and subject(s) you currently teach by email to [email protected].
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