The Berro Family Foundation Holocaust Workshop

Berro Family Foundation

The Jewish Studies Program recently expanded the full five-day workshop into the school year by hosting teachers at a one-day workshop, which was made possible by the generous support of the Berro Family Foundation. This workshop invites the previous year’s teacher participants to share their lesson plans as well as potential participants who are interested in attending the upcoming five-day Eva and Eugene Schlesinger Teacher Training Endowed Workshop on the Holocaust. 

 

The Berro Family Foundation One-Day Workshop was launched in spring 2016 and ensures that high school students receive a good and thorough education in tolerance and the Holocaust.  It brings primary and secondary teachers to the campus of California State University, Long Beach for an intensive one-day program designed to provide each with the knowledge and tools necessary to teach the Holocaust in an age appropriate and relevant context.  These teachers then take their training directly into the classrooms where they will plant the seed of tolerance within the hundreds of students they instruct each year. 

 

The Berro Family Foundation One-Day Workshop is devoted to Holocaust education and civic engagement to assist our youth in becoming good citizens.  Last year’s workshop has hosted two speakers, one focusing on using the Holocaust as part of a tolerance education program in schools, while the other focused on how the Holocaust and other global genocides show the need for students to be good citizens and engaged in the democratic process.  A final session focused specifically on developing or adapting lesson plans that could highlight these issues.  Workshop staff and guest lecturers were available to assist the teachers throughout the process by answering questions, providing feedback and brainstorming with the group. At the close of the one-day workshop, a reception was held in order to allow the teachers to socialize with past participants and ask questions in a relaxed environment.  

Registration is now closed for the Spring 2019 Berro Family Foundation One-Day Worksop.

The Berro Family Foundation One-Day workshop on the Holocaust was held at CSULB on March 23, 2019. Details and registration information for the 2020 Berro One-day workshop will be posted when finalized.


Berro Family Foundation One Day Workshop on the Holocaust. On March 23, 2019 at the Karl Anatol Center, CSULB
       Berro Family One Day Workshop on the Holocaust: program information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictures from the 2019 Berro Family Foundation One-Day Workshop on the Holocaust, held at CSULB on March 23, 2019.