Survivor Speaks & How to Bring them to your Classroom is presented by NJEA & the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. Participants will experience a Survivor speak and gain valuable tools how to meaningfully and appropriately incorporate live testimony into their Holocaust lessons.
Lessons rooted in the places where students live help them make important connections to their own communities.
Teacher Leadership & the Teacher Leader Academy is presented by NJEA’s PDII Division. Join us for an overview of the Teacher Leader Academy and the benefits of being a teacher leader.
Purpose: The Growing Healthy Minds Project ECHO brings together school physicians, school nurses, school counselors, school administrators, educators, and other school-based mental health professionals from across the state to improve mental
Engage in vital dialogues, interactive workshops, and insightful panels as we discover lessons from history to inspire today’s inclusive classrooms.
Presented by Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences New Jersey Center for Civic Education. New Jersey law requires the infusing of civics, the study of New Jersey, and economics into
Most Americans have learned an oversimplified version of colonial America that leaves out the voices and stories of enslaved Africans, Indigenous people and indentured servants.
VIRTUAL BOOK STUDY Assessments can do more than just provide grades. They can be powerful and equitable ways to engage and motivate students, differentiate instruction, and support student agency, particularly
Continuing Professional Development for NJ Teachers Teaching Inclusively: African American History Across the Curriculum The Amistad Curriculum serves as a model for districts across the country of what should be
Presented by Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences New Jersey Center for Civic Education. We live in a highly partisan era and teachers are concerned about how to address controversial
Dr. Krasner, a historian and prize winning poet, will present the history of the Bund in America, the establishment of these camps with a special emphasis on Nordland.
Participants will discuss short excerpts describing the painful realization of what it means to be oppressed. Texts from different national origins and living situations will be presented for consideration.
Dr. Eileen Angelini’s presentation will discuss how the Vichy Government planned the Vélodrome d'Hiver round-up and how the French government and people have since dealt with the pain and shame of this traumatic event.
Author, Michelle Weinfeld, will share her grandfather's story of surviving the Holocaust, the life lessons he taught her, and how being the grandchild of a survivor has influenced her life.
Presented by NJEA’s PDII Consultants, this two-hour workshop is a basic overview of artificial intelligence and its practical applications.
Getting to Know the Sex Education Standards is presented by NJEA & Answer. Tazmine Weisgerber from Answer (Rutgers) will address the updates, the additions, the standards, and much more.
Presented by Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences New Jersey Center for Civic Education. The primary purpose of social studies is to help students become the citizens our democracy requires,
Author, Michelle Weinfeld, will share her grandfather's story of surviving the Holocaust, the life lessons he taught her, and how being the grandchild of a survivor has influenced her life.
Dr. Alexis Herr, a comparative genocide scholar, and Channy Chhi Laux, survivor of the Cambodian Genocide, will discuss how to use survivor testimony to educate about genocide and human rights.
Purpose: The Growing Healthy Minds Project ECHO brings together school physicians, school nurses, school counselors, school administrators, educators, and other school-based mental health professionals from across the state to improve mental
Asian American History IS United States History is presented by NJEA & E Pluribus Unum. The presentation will give participants a better understanding of history (1700s to present), race relations today, and how they affect Asian American students and families.
This workshop will focus on providing K-5 teachers an overview of Asian American children literature including poetry and short stories.
