TOLI TEACHER PROGRAMS 2023: FIFTEEN ACROSS THE US, TEN IN EUROPE
Across the US and Europe, over 600 teachers will take part in TOLI seminars this year, each benefiting from a week of professional development in Holocaust education.
SEMINARS IN THE UNITED STATES
TOLI’S professional development programs for Holocaust and human rights educators will take place in 14 states along with the national seminar in New York City.
View our regional seminars, and learn more about TOLI’s Programs in the US.
SEMINARS IN EUROPE
TOLI has expanded its network of European programs to ten countries, with Spain joining this year. There will also be an international conference of European Holocaust educators in Valencia in December.
Why I Became a Holocaust Educator
Why I Became a Holocaust Educator
Meet Kimberly Jones, high school teacher from Chapel Hill, NC who participated in TOLI’s 2022 Seminar on Holocaust and Human Rights Education. When Kimberly Jones, a high school English teacher from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, first taught the Holocaust seventeen years ago, she probably didn’t anticipate it would become a vital part of her [...continue]Impact Grants
Students in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria, remember Holocaust survivors and rescuers with a poster exhibition at their school. A project supported by TOLI impact grants.
TOLI EUROPEAN GRANTS REACH 47,000 STUDENTS
Since 2016, TOLI has provided impact grants to teachers who have participated in our seminars to support their classroom projects. The grants reached over 47,000 students , nearly 10,000 in eight countries last year. These grants help students learn about the Holocaust, human rights, and communities where almost all the Jewish population was destroyed by the Nazis and their local collaborators.
The grants, ranging from $250-$500, support research, field trips, and multimedia projects.
HANDBOOK FOR EUROPEAN TEACHERS
The TOLI Europe office has produced a handbook for an interdisciplinary approach to teaching the Holocaust and contemporary human rights. Based on the experience with thousands of teachers, the TOLI manual offers essential guidelines to European educators for maximum effect in classrooms.
BOOK FEATURES NARRATIVES BY TOLI TEACHERS
TOLI’S Associate Director of US Programs, Jennifer Lemberg, along with Maryland regional seminar leader Alexander “Sandy” Pope, co-edited Becoming a Holocaust Educator: Purposeful Pedagogy Through Inquiry (Teachers College Press & The National Writing Project), a volume of essays by educators in TOLI’s network describing their experiences teaching about the Holocaust and human rights.
