Navigating the Holocaust Through Story


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 01:36 PM PDT

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website.

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Cultivating Empathy


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 01:36 PM PDT
Too often, as has become glaringly apparent in our current national climate, an emphasis on difference has potential for creating misunderstandings that lead to violence. Developing empathy will help students see others as human--individuals with feelings, beliefs, reasons--regardless of ethnicity, gender, and ideology.

Teaching about the Holocaust with English Language Learners


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 01:36 PM PDT

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate how to powerfully engage English language learners in the study of the Holocaust through audiovisual testimony. Drawing upon resources and content found in Echoes & Reflections and other sources, participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies that can promote English language learners’ understanding of the Holocaust while also building academic language.

Digital Tools: Holocaust Curriculum and Technology


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 01:36 PM PDT

In this webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, participants will explore testimony-based multimedia activities, resources, and tools available in IWitness–the educational website integrated with Echoes & Reflections to enhance teaching of the Holocaust. Participants will learn how audiovisual testimony of witnesses to the Holocaust serves as a powerful tool for engaging students in meaningful ways.

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Holding Respectful Conversations


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 01:36 PM PDT
Holding Respectful Conversations. Join us on September 28th at 4PM PDT

Students' ability to hold respectful conversations is not an innate skill, it must be taught and refined. This is especially important when students are confronted with controversial topics, and, in today's media and social media rich culture, these instances are inevitable. How can they be heard and how should they listen? This webinar will walk through two-testimony based lessons to help your students hone their speaking and listening skills. 

Navigating the Holocaust Through Story


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 12:43 PM PDT

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website.

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Teaching about the Holocaust with English Language Learners


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 12:43 PM PDT

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate how to powerfully engage English language learners in the study of the Holocaust through audiovisual testimony. Drawing upon resources and content found in Echoes & Reflections and other sources, participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies that can promote English language learners’ understanding of the Holocaust while also building academic language.

Promote Close Reading of Text through Audiovisual Primary Sources


Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 12:43 PM PDT
Teach Across the Curriculum Using Powerful Audiovisual Testimony
Join us on July 20th at 4PM PDT
 
  • Learn about IWitness, a free educational website offering audiovisual testimonies for use across the curriculum
  • Learn how to access, use and create curriculum with audiovisual testimony

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