Echoes and Reflections***CANCELLED***

Echoes and Reflections is a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of resources for all interested educators. With Echoes and Reflections, teachers can help students make connections with the past and gain relevant insight into human dilemmas and difficult social challenges.

Program Goals:
- Familiarize participants with the content and pedagogy of Echoes and Reflections through experiential activities.
- Enhance teacher knowledge about the Holocaust.
- Explore Echoes and Reflections multimedia assets including the correlated visual history testimonies and other primary resources and materials.
- Introduce participants to IWitness, an online complement to Echoes and Reflections that includes interactive student-centered activities.
- Addresses academic standards-including Common Core State Standards-using informational texts and primary source documents.
- Incorporates compelling visual history testimony into ten multi-part and modular lessons to engage students in the lives of survivors, rescuers, liberators, and other witnesses of the Holocaust.
- Combines the experience and resources of three world leaders in education: the Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation, and Yad Vashem.

Attend a Program and Receive:
- A complimentary copy of the Echoes and Reflections
- Teacher's Resource Guide
- The opportunity to explore effective strategies for teaching the Holocaust to today's students

Date: Saturday, November 5th, 2016
Time: 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Schenectady High School, Commons Room
Fee: None, underwritten by Schenectady and Greater Capital Region Teacher Centers. However, registration is required. Includes a personal copy of the Teacher Resource Guide (A $95 value)

For more information, please contact: Diane Allegro, allegroD@schenectady.k12.ny.us