Rooted and Targeted: Teaching Jewish and Black Life, Antisemitism, Anti-Blackness, and the Cities We Inherit

Date: August 3-8, 2026

Location: Los Angeles, California

For California K-12 educators only

About the 2026 Program:

This five-day seminar invites educators to rethink how they teach history and identity. The program begins with everyday life — community, culture, and the richness of Jewish and Black experiences — and then examines the legal, social, and institutional systems that made exclusion, discrimination, and erasure possible, both historically – through the histories of the Holocaust, domestic slave trade and lynching – and today.

Together, participants will explore how antisemitism and anti-Black racism have operated as connected systems through policies, institutions, and neighborhoods, shaping both the past and the present. The seminar combines structural analysis with immersive community experiences and practical teaching strategies that educators can bring directly into their classrooms.

Participants will leave with a shared language, concrete instructional resources, and the tools to help students understand these histories — and the ways they continue to shape the world today.

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

Travel and hotel accommodations are fully covered through grant funding for California K–12 educators located 50+ miles from the Museum of Tolerance.

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).