2025 Centropa Summer Academy Application for N American Educators

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your interest in the 2025 Centropa Summer Academy (CSA), which will take place in Budapest and Belgrade, 9-16 July; details at https://www.centropa.org/en/csa2025. Twenty US educators will join 45 teachers from 15 countries.

Applications for Europeans and Israelis will be available in March 2025.

We welcome applications from US middle/high school teachers, county/district education/school administrators, & museum/Holocaust organization educators. Preference will go to those who have used Centropa creatively and show that Centropa will be a key resource in their work.

Trip cost details:

- Public school educators: through grants, we will cover air fare and most ground costs, including hotel (shared room). We appreciate any funding you might be able to contribute.

- Private school & university, museum, and organization educators must cover the entire cost of the trip.

ALL participants must pay a $200 registration fee, even those receiving a grant from one of our funders.
ALL participants, including those whose trips are paid by grants, must purchase travel medical insurance, cover rides to/from airports, and pay for meals on free evenings.

RECOMMENDATION: as you fill out this application, save your answers in Word in case they do not save properly.

The deadline for US applications is Monday, March 10, 2025, 11:59pm EST. We will interviews finalists via Zoom, and make final decisions mid- to late March.

Questions? Contact Lauren Granite, granite@centropa.org

Warmly,
Lauren Granite
Director, Centropa USA

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Full Name *

2.

Email address we can reach you from now THROUGH THE SUMMER. This email address must be one you will use from now until the end of the Summer Academy; otherwise, you may not receive important communications. *

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Cell Phone Number

While we generally do not contact teachers by phone, we need a way to reach you if email isn't working for some reason. *

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Address (Street address, city, state, zip code. If you will receive a reimbursement from us, we will send it to this address.) *

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School or Organization Name *

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Website for your school/organization. *

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What city do you work in? If you do not work in the United States, please include your country here, as well. *

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What state do you work in?

PLEASE WRITE THE TWO LETTER ABBREVIATION FOR YOUR STATE (NJ, FL, etc). This helps us search for all applications from one state, when needed.

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How would you define your role as an educator? Choose the one that describes your primary role. *

Teacher, public middle school
Teacher, public high school
Teacher, private middle school (Catholic, independent)
Teacher, private high school (Catholic, independent)
Teacher, Jewish middle school
Teacher, Jewish high school
School director or administrator: public or charter school
School director or administrator: private school (Catholic, independent)
School director or administrator: Jewish school
Museum educator
Administrator, Jewish organization
Administrator, State or District Education Department
Other, please specify Other, please specify

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What subject(s) do you teach or supervise? *

History / Social Studies / Geography
English Language Arts / Literature
Ethics
Civics
Comparative religions
Jewish / religious studies
Art / film / photography
ESL
Foreign Language
IT
Other, or if there is another please include that here: Other, or if there is another please include that here:

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How many years have you been teaching or working as an educator? *

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We'd like to learn about your school, district, or organization and the students or population you serve. If the question doesn't apply to you, simply enter "N/A." *

If you teach, how many students in your school?

If you are an administrator, how many students do you serve in your position?

What is the cultural background of the students you serve?

Public school teachers: Is your school a Title I school? What percentage of your students receive free or reduced lunches?

County administrators: how many Title I schools are in your district?

If you work in a museum or educational organization: how many students visit your museum annually, or how many teachers do you train each year?

If you write curriculum: who uses your curriculum, and in which contexts?

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Paint us a picture of what you do professionally, using the following questions as guidelines:

CLASSROOM TEACHERS: what grades/classes do you teach? How many students?

ADMINISTRATORS, MUSEUM EDUCATORS: briefly describe your role and the educational programs you run. *

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Please answer according to your role:

TEACHERS: What is the most important thing you teach your students? Why? How do you teach it?

ADMINISTRATORS, MUSEUM EDUCATORS: What is the most important thing you want to support and teach your teachers to teach? Why? How do you do that? *

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What challenges have you faced in teaching about the Holocaust? *

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Describe a lesson or program you designed that you are most proud of, and tell us why you like it. You can adapt this question to your work (meaning: if you are an administrator, please share with us a learning experience you designed for your staff, faculty, or whoever). *

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What do you think Centropa can offer you that other organizations can't? *

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If you are accepted, you will need to be comfortable spending time and connecting with teachers from other cultures. Describe an experience that illustrates your curiosity about others, and your interest in and ability to successfully work with people from other cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. *

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Have you used Centropa before? If so, please briefly tell us which resources you used, which class you used them in, and about your lesson or project.

If not, please show us that you understand what we offer educators by doing the following:

a) Go to the interviews at www.centropa.org and choose a country.
b) Select a family name from the biographies, read the interview, and look at the photos from that family. Briefly tell us how you would use these materials - or other stories - with students.
c) Please watch one film from our film page (https://www.centropa.org/en/films/by-region), and tell us how you might use it in class.

If you run out of space, please email your answer to Lauren at granite@centropa.org, with the subject heading: CSA Application, your last name, first name *

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Including air fare, we estimate that the total cost of the trip will be $5,000, and we try to raise the funds for as many public school teachers as possible. However, we are small non-profit and money is often tight, so we ask CSA applicants to look for any school, county, state, or local funding you might apply for to help support the cost of your trip.

Tell us here if there is any amount you think you might be able to cover towards the cost of your flights or ground expenses (i.e., in addition to the $200 registration fee, travel/medical insurance, rides to/from airports, and meals on free evenings). *

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The Milton Wolf Prize in Student Advocacy. We have two scholarships for public school teachers who assign The Milton Wolf Prize in Student Advocacy to their students, grades 6-12. Students can also submit projects independently, or via clubs or youth groups.

If you are interested in applying for this grant to the 2025 Summer Academy, please visit the Milton Wolf Prize website (www.centropawolfprize.org), review the details (especially on the FAQ page), and indicate below if you would like to apply for this scholarship. We will follow up with you. *

Yes, I am interested in applying for this grant to attend the 2025 Centropa Summer Academy in Budapest & Belgrade.
No, I am not interested in this grant.

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As a non-profit with a small staff, Centropa relies on our community of educators to expand our educational network and resources. For this reason, we ask you to read the following and acknowledge that, if you are accepted to the 2024 Centropa Summer Academy, by filling out this application you agree to partnering with us in the following ways:

- use Centropa's resources in your classroom or school district in the coming school year; if you use any lesson plans or projects from our website in your classes, you will let us know what you used, how you used them, and the students' responses;

- share your lesson, projects, or programs with Centropa at no charge;

- fill out a survey after the Summer Academy, and another follow-up survey after six months about how you use Centropa - we will use your comments in our reporting to donors;

- introduce Centropa to your colleagues;

- you give us permission to use photographs we take of you for our PR materials and reports to the supporting foundations;

- if you publish exhibitions, websites, theater productions, or anything else that has been generated by your participation in our programs, you agree to use our name and logo (which we will send you upon request);

- if you contact any speaker you have met through Centropa you will inform us.

Please indicate your acceptance of these terms by clicking below. *

I agree

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By applying to the Centropa Summer Academy, you agree that your personal details given above will be shared and processed by Centropa according to our Privacy Policy (http://www.centropa.org/centropa-privacy-policy). *

I agree to the Centropa Privacy Policy.

Thank you for applying to the 2025 CSA, in Budapest and Belgrade, 9-16 July.

The deadline for US applications Is Monday, March 10, 2025, 11:59pm EST. Applications for European and Israeli teachers are separate and will be available in March.

We look forward to reading your application. In the meantime, should you have questions please do not hesitate to contact me at granite@centropa.org.

Best,

Lauren Granite, Ph.D.
US Program Director

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