Featured Teachers

After twenty-four years in the classroom, Jennifer Reeder still walks into her high school each day with a sense of urgency – and hope. Teaching eleventh- and twelfth-grade students, she knows her time with them is brief, but the responsibility is immense. As… [continue reading]

Timothy Greening is a veteran educator at Rock Ridge High School (Ashburn, Virginia) with 30 years of classroom teaching experience. He primarily teaches 10th and 12th grade English, focusing on English 10 and English 12 courses. As he approaches his final years in the classroom, he continues to… [continue reading]

Paisley Pandolfo: An Educator Committed to Human Rights, Inquiry, and Social Justice Paisley Pandolfo has always believed that education is one of the most powerful catalysts for shaping a more just world. As a 5th grade teacher, she sees each school year not simply as a sequence of… [continue reading]

Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez is the Director of Stockton University’s Holocaust Resource Center, and the first Hispanic leader of a New Jersey Holocaust center. Irvin, a first-generation student whose parents emigrated to the United States from Mexico, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and a Master’s Degree in Holocaust and Genocide… [continue reading]

Remembering Toshimi We are so saddened by the sudden and tragic loss of Holocaust educator, Toshimi Abe-Janiga of Palm Beach, Florida. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2022 by the Palm Beach County School District. It was an honor to have Toshimi participate at TOLI’s first seminar in… [continue reading]

“TOLI: It changes you. It makes you want to get involved in the life of the community you live in. It encourages you to find out less known things, to love and look at history with different eyes.” – Livia Ghiurcuta, 5-year TOLI Impact Grant recipient. Livia teaches… [continue reading]

When Hallie Leach was growing up, she did not receive an education about the Holocaust. In college, she took a class on Judeo-Christian Religious Traditions, which addressed the subject. “We read Night and I could not believe that I had not learned about it… [continue reading]

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… [continue reading]

Jews in Romania, once home to one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities, suffered deeply during the Holocaust. Nearly 400,000 Jews were killed in Romania or territories it controlled as an ally of Nazi Germany, with only 10,000 or so living in the country today. Yet young Romanians know very little… [continue reading]

When she was growing up, Katarzyna Laziuk knew little about the Jewish history of Mińsk Mazowiecki, the small Polish city east of Warsaw. But as a teacher, Kasia, as everyone calls her, has been in the forefront of… [continue reading]