Centropa USA is proud to offer "PD in PJs" webinar series for Fall 2020, offering teachers resources for engaging lessons for your students, whether you're working from home or online. No registration fee. All webinars on Tuesday evenings:
Session 1, Sept 22, 7:30-9:00pm EDT: Introduction to Centropa’s free teaching resources
Session 2, Oct 13, 7:30-8:30pm EDT: Kristallnacht & the Kindertransport: preparing you to teach about Kristallnacht the week of Nov 9/10
Session 3, Nov 10, 7:30-8:30pm EST: Stories from the Holocaust in Hungary
Session 4, Dec 8, 7:30-9:00pm EST: Sephardic Jews in the Balkans
Centropa (www.centropa.org) is a historical organization that works with teachers to use our stories of 20th century Central European Jewish life to explore students' own stories, civic values, tolerance, and global citizenship. From 2000-2009, we asked elderly Jews in 15 European countries to tell us their entire life stories spanning the 20th century as they showed us their old family photographs. We did not use video, nor did we focus on the Holocaust, and we don't have a boxed curriculum.
Teachers use our 22,000 old photographs, 1200 interviews, and short multimedia films to create the lessons they need for the students they teach—in history, ethics, geography, civics, foreign language, creative writing, English Language Arts, and film, art, and photography classes. Our materials cost nothing.
Register here and we will send you a Zoom registration link three days before the webinar. For those whose school districts will give PD credit for attending we will gladly write a letter confirming attendance of all sessions.
Questions? Contact Lauren Granite at granite@centropa.org or Brittany Brown at bbrown@centropa.org.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Lauren Granite, US Education Director
Brittany Brown, Coordinator, North Carolina
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We have laid out four topics for the series, but are open to hearing what topics would be most useful for you for the third and fourth sessions. If there is a topic related to Centropa's focus on 20th century Central and Eastern European history that you would like to learn more about please indicate it here. This will help us shape the webinars to your needs. *
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At Centropa we like to connect teachers, and there may be times during the webinars where you will work in small groups. We expect participants to me mostly from North Carolina and, depending on interest, South Carolina, though if there is space we will open it up to teachers around the country. Please write a 3-4 sentence professional biography that we can share with others. Example:
Joe Smith, Charlotte, NC. I teach English Language Arts to 7th and 8th grade students. I received my master's degree in English from Queens University of Charlotte, and have been teaching middle school for fifteen years. My favorite part about teaching middle school students is how much energy they bring to class every day, and how they are so curious about the world. *
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