Merging Histories and Complex Narratives: Holocaust and Genocide Education through Dialogue, Storytelling, and Classroom Practice

Date: August 3-8, 2026

Location: Los Angeles, California

For California K-12 educators only

About the 2026 Program:

This five-day, in-person seminar specifically designed for California K–12 educators uses inquiry-based practices as the foundation for exploring the content of Holocaust, genocide, and human rights as both students and teachers of those histories. Participants engage in in-depth learning with the powerful exhibits and pedagogical principles of the Museum of Tolerance to develop practical strategies for teaching complex histories with confidence and care.

2026 Program Benefits:

  • Aligned to help educators navigate CA learning standards and mandates
  • Experience powerful, place-based education at the Museum of Tolerance (Los Angeles)
  • Gain practical, classroom-ready strategies to foster accurate historical understanding
  • Strengthen your teaching through collaboration, exploration of best practices, and by becoming part of a small, supportive professional learning community

In partnership with Museums of Tolerance.

Leaders

  • Corey Harbaugh

    Corey Harbaugh retired as a school curriculum administrator in 2025 to move into Holocaust education as Faculty Advisor for The Olga Lengyel Institute and Curriculum Specialist for the Anne Frank Center at The University of South Carolina. He served as a member of the Governor’s Council on Holocaust & Genocide Education and co-authored the model curriculum in support of Public Act 170 of 2016 that mandates Holocaust and genocide education in Michigan schools.

  • Paul Regelbrugge

    Paul is the Director of Education at the Holocaust Center for Humanity. Previously, he was an attorney before teaching in Chicago, Buffalo, and Spokane and Kent, Washington. Paul has received degrees from Kalamazoo College, University of Detroit Mercy and Michigan State University College of Law, and his teaching certificate from Northwestern University. He is a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow, a Powell Teacher Fellow, and an Alfred Lerner Fellow. He is also the author of The Yellow Star House: The Remarkable Story of One Boy’s Survival in a Protected House in Hungary (Lulu, 2019).