HMH Bearing Witness - December 2017

Educator in Motion

The Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute

EDUCATION

We are excited to announce the success of the Educator in Motion program in its inaugural year. Since the program’s launch in September 2016, Educator in Motion has reached over 25,000 students in 67 schools throughout the Houston region. Through our interactive programming, students are able to examine the dangers of intolerance and apathy and learn how to respond to social cruelty and injustice as empowered Upstanders. For the 2017-2018 school year, we are introducing a new elementary school program

called “Building My Universe of Obligation.” Using a children’s book centering on diversity, inclusion, altruism, empathy, and social justice, students discuss how they can expand their universe of obligation to include others and how they can make their schools and communities a better place, especially in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. We also plan to increase our impact in the community by expanding our Spanish language programming for ESL/ ELL classrooms and building partnerships with homeschool groups.

In July 2017, the world became a better place because of the people who came together to learn and educate at the Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute. We are utterly thankful to Martha Kaplan Freedman (BOA) and her family for their loving and ongoing support of this program at HMH. The relationships fostered through the intensive learning environment are often practice-changing for attendees. Our 21 participants this year represented TX, WI, Washington D.C. and Romania. 2017 faculty included: Dr. Ann Millin (USHMM); Dr. Karen Shawn (Yeshiva University); Dr. Sherry L. Field (UT Austin); Mark Weitzman (director of government affairs and the director of the Task Force Against Hate and Terrorism for the Simon Wiesenthal Center); Dr. John Cox (UNC-Charlotte); Anne Tucker (Curator Emerita, MFAH); Cynthia Capers (SC educator and former member of the Education Department); Kelly Webeck (Indiana University); Mark Alexander (USHMM & GWU); Irene Resenly (UW-Madison); “Telling a Family Story” presenters Mike Cahn and Barry Halpern; and last, but not least, Wendy Warren and Mary Lee Webeck. This year’s Gerald Kaplan Endowed Lecture was presented by Mark Weitzman.

Hastings High School Students visit HMH

HMH's Laurie Garcia with HISD's Wharton Dual Language ABC Hate Busters Club

Participants of the 2017 Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute

The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers

In its 15th year The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers began on Monday, May 29. The Fellowship continues to deepen engagement with Holocaust learning in the education field as we work with those preparing to teach and advocate. During the Fellowship we work to deepen the Fellows’ understanding of the Holocaust and other genocides and to strengthen their pedagogy and ability to reach and teach their students of differing ages and abilities. In our first Fellowship since Naomi’s passing on October 2, 2016, Naomi’s indomitable spirit was with us, as it was in January with the 2017 Spector/ Warren Fellowship. This year’s Fellows come to us from nine states and 17 institutions of higher learning.

JCC Teen Book Festival event with author Kathy Kacer

HMH's Educator in Motion Laurie Garcia

In a recent meeting with our colleagues from the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council we are excited to report that we established a schedule of meeting dates for 2017 – 2018, where scouts will receive their badges at HMH at the conclusion of their session. The dates are February 3, March 24, July 28 and August 11, 2018. Work with Girl Scouts Continues

2017 Warren Fellows interact with Pinchas Gutter of "New Dimensions in Testimony"

HMH Education Director Mary Lee Webeck providing historical content to HSPVA students

Teacher training at Cy-Fair Middle School

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GRATITUDE REPORT 2017

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