Master Teacher Follow-Up Workshop, July 2011

(Left to right.) Back row: Kelly Watson, Jonathan Young, Mindy Davis, Dana Leon, and Joe Kenney. Middle row: Sherry Bard, Jill Quigley, Ginny Hoke, Lesly Culp, Janice Lee, Elizabeth Vitanza, Rob Hadley, and Sheila Hansen. Front row: Renee Klein, Hank Koransky, Judi Freeman, Judy LaPietra, Sandy Rubenstein, Susan Kacvinsky, and Myeshia Whigham.

Left to right: Dana Leon, Lesly Culp, and Myeshia Whigham.

Ginny Hoke, Thurston High School (Eugene, Oregon), and Rob Hadley, Clackamas High School (Clackamas, Oregon), present their testimony-based lesson to their fellow 2010 Master Teacher Workshop graduates.

Jill Quigley, San Diego Jewish Academy (San Diego, California).

Elizabeth Vitanza, Marlborough School (Los Angeles, California).

Jonathan Young, Esperanza Academy Charter High School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

Renee Klein, Animo Venice Charter High School (Venice, California).

Front to back: Mindy Davis, Mt. Carmel High School (San Diego, California); Judy LaPietra, St. Mark Catholic School (Huntersville, North Carolina); and Jonathan Young, Esperanza Academy Charter High School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

Ginny Hoke, Thurston High School (Eugene, Oregon).

2010 Master Teacher Workshop graduates working with the Institute's Visual History Archive.

Jill Quigley, San Diego Jewish Academy (San Diego, California).

Joe Kenney, Duarte High School (Duarte, California).

Hank Koransky, Brentwood School (Los Angeles, California).

Dana Leon, Valencia High School (Placentia, California).

Janice Lee, Del Dios Middle School (Escondido, California).

Judi Freeman, Boston Latin School (Boston, Massachusetts).

Judy LaPietra, St. Mark Catholic School (Huntersville, North Carolina).

Lesly Culp, Vista Murrieta High School (Murrieta, California).

Kelly Watson, Fishers Junior High (Fishers, Indiana).

Sandy Rubenstein, Horace Mann Lower Division (Bronx, New York).

Susan Kacvinsky, 32nd Street USC Magnet High School (Los Angeles, California).

Mindy Davis, Mt. Carmel High School (San Diego, California).

Jonathan Young, Esperanza Academy Charter High School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

Renee Klein, Animo Venice Charter High School (Venice, California).

Sherry Bard, Institute Educational Programs, Project Director, and Sheila Hansen, Institute Senior Trainer/Content Specialist, lead a follow-up discussion with the graduates of the 2010 Master Teacher Workshop.

Colleen Dietz, from the USC Rossier School of Education, presents the Master Teachers with 12 graduate-level continuing education units.

Sherry Bard and Sheila Hansen congratulate Hank Koransky (center), Master Teacher Program graduate.

(Left to right.) Back row: Hank Koransky, Kelly Watson, Jonathan Young, Mindy Davis, Dana Leon, Joe Kenney, Rob Hadley, and Martin Šmok. Middle row: Talia Cohen, Sherry Bard, Kim Simon, Jill Quigley, Ginny Hoke, Lesly Culp, Janice Lee, Elizabeth Vitanza, Andrea Szőnyi, Renee Klein, and Sheila Hansen. Front row: Colleen Dietz, Melissa Jones, Judi Freeman, Judy LaPietra, Sandy Rubenstein, Susan Kacvinsky, Myeshia Whigham, and Jenna Leventhal.

In July 2011, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute held a follow-up workshop for graduates of its Master Teacher Program. The follow-up workshop provided a congenial, peer-to-peer setting for participants to address program-related issues; present the testimony-based projects they developed during the year, as well as the impact of those projects on students’ learning; consider strategies for making use of IWitness, the Institute’s new online application (http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi/education/iwitness); and receive information about potential opportunities for members of the Master Teacher Program. In addition to certification from the Institute, each participant earned 12 graduate-level continuing education units from the USC Rossier School of Education.

Album posted on: August 10, 2011