Summer Teachers Institute 2016

The Baltimore Jewish Council, The Jewish Museum of Maryland

and the Maryland State Department of Education present:

 

Holocaust Remembrance Through the Arts

 

Schedule

 

August 1, 2016 – Beth El Congregation, 8101 Park Heights Ave, Pikesville, Maryland 21208

 

August 2, 2016 – The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

August 3, 2016 – The Jewish Museum of Maryland, 15 Lloyd Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202

 

Speakers Include: Deborah Batiste, Project Director, Echoes and Reflections Sean Langberg, Policy Assistant, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Bernice Steinhardt, Executive Director, Art and Remembrance

 

Registration fee: $25.00 (includes breakfast and lunch on Monday and Wednesday and bus trip to USHMM)

 

Download Registration Form

 

For more information and to register, please contact Ilene Dackman-Alon at 410.732.6400 x214/ STI@jewishmuseummd.org.

 

Draft Agenda

 

Monday, August 1, 2016

Beth El Congregation

 

8:30     Breakfast

9:00     Introduction

9:15     Echoes & Reflections with Deborah Batiste

11:45   Lunch

12:30   Monuments Men

(Susan Pullam sharing stories about her father’s experiences during WWII)

1:30     How to select high quality films for the classroom and how to use them in creative ways with students

(Nancy Civin, retired Holocaust educator)

2:30     Music of the Holocaust (speaker not yet confirmed)

 

 

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial

 

7:30     Pick up Greenspring Shopping Center

8:15     Pick up Howard County Park and Ride

9:15     Arrival US Holocaust Memorial Museum for early admission

          Tour Permanent and Special Exhibitions

1:00     Using the Lessons of the Past to Prevent Genocide in the Future

(Sean Langberg, policy assistant for the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide )

3:00     Depart for Baltimore / debriefing on the bus

 

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

JMM

 

8:30     Breakfast

9:00     Art of Remembrance

(Bernice Steinhardt sharing lesson plans based on her mother’s tapestries that document her experiences in hiding during the Holocaust)

10:30   Break

10:45   Music and Art: Exploring Responses to Oppression

(Gail Prensky, The Judisch Kulturbund Project)

12:15   Lunch at Lennys

1:00     Survivor Testimony

2:00     Lesson Plan sharing with the group

3:00     Evaluation and Wrap-up

 

This program is made possible due to the generous support of Judy and Jerry Macks and The Joan G. and Joseph Klein, Jr. Foundation and the following organizations: