Our Story 

Carolina Simon started teaching over 20 years ago. She has taught a variety of subjects including Language Arts, History, Humanities, and more. Having a masters degree in the Humanities, she naturally was drawn to the synergy found between the subjects she taught and saw how teaching in an interdisciplinary manner enhanced her students' experiences and knowledge retention.

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As a Holocaust education expert for grades 6-12, Carolina Simon has personally participated in many nationally recognized teacher training workshops and consistently was confronted with the reality that her colleagues lack of intense Holocaust knowledge left them at a loss. Holocaust trainings were geared towards one of two categories - those with graduate degrees in the subject  who did not need any foundational support of logical connections made between basics and the higher order topic discussed; or entirely for teachers of college bound upper class men in high school or college students who did not need  foundational or age-appropriate transitions.

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Having a deep understanding and respect of the subject as well as compassion for her fellow teachers being required to teach a topic seldom made truly accessible for all secondary grade levels via trainings, Carolina Simon has created the Annual Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies teacher Symposium. It is for teachers by teachers and provides a space where teachers can both get and give applicable training in Holocaust studies for the Language Arts, History and Art classrooms in grades 6-12.

Carolina Simon strongly believes that the future of Holocaust education entirely rests on the relationships built between academia and the secondary classroom. Therefore, the symposium is open to all educators in either educational institution.  

 The Details 

The Annual  Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies Teacher Symposium is a  3 day  intense teacher created teacher led professional development symposium where the participants gain priceless knowledge pertaining to the complex history of the Holocaust, 2000 years of antisemitism in Europe, the roles of imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, economics, and democracy on the sociopolitical changes in Europe and how individuals were affected by these changes.  At the core of it all are raw historical facts, 100% applicable meaningful age appropriate lessons, and the support of interdisciplinary team teaching. 

The symposium is a Zachor Shoah event. As such the symposium seeks to put substance over style. It is not enough to say we did something, we must actually achieve it. It is far more important to us to create a strong robust community of professional educators focused on bringing the respect and academic validity to the subject that it deserves than to have thousands of participants in one year. We seek to inspire, inform, and involve amazing  English, History, and Art educators in grades 6-12 and provide the foundations for a scholarly community among secondary school educators centered around Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies.

Are you an exceptional teacher in your subject area of English (6-12), History/Social Studies (6-12), or Art (6-12) and want to learn how to better teacher the Holocaust through interdisciplinary team teaching? Or do you want to improve and grow on what you are already doing? Then this symposium is for you.

If you are an award winning Holocaust educator having received recognition for your work in the classroom in grades 6-12, we encourage you to apply to be a presenter at the symposium by going to the Call for Papers section of this site. 

Date: September 2022

Location: Atlanta Georgia

Limited number of  30 in person spaces available.

Registration:

*Early Individual Registration Rate: $450- (closes January  28, 2022)

*Early Group Registration Rate: $1249 (for a group of 3 from the same school) -(closes January 28, 2022)

*Regular Individual Registration Rate: $612 -(closes June 27,  2022)

*Regular Group Registration Rate : $1675 (for a group of 3 from the same school) -(closes June 27, 2022)

**Limited VIP Ticket packages available

*includes attendance at all workshops, lectures, and key note speaker event as well as welcome swag bag with materials required for the event.  Coffee, Tea, and Light refreshments provided throughout the day. Does not include airfare or hotel accommodations. Details regarding block room rates coming soon.

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**VIP package includes  attendance at all workshops, lectures, and key note speaker event. Coffee, Tea, and Light refreshments provided throughout the day as well as welcome swag bag with materials required for the event, hotel accommodations, airport pickup, welcome dinner and more! Does not include airfare.

*Evening events available for an additional cost and require additional separate registration. Purchase tickets via link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-interdisciplinary-holocaust-studies-teacher-symposium-tickets-142592364601

 Getting There 

 TRANSPORTATION 

We currently do not have specific information on travel information for out of town teachers. Please check back soon

 ACCOMMODATION 

We currently do not have specific information regarding accommodations for our of town teachers. Please check back soon.

For details regarding sponsorship opportunities please email us at

Thank you to our sponsors!

The Child Survivors/ Hidden Children of the Holocaust, Palm Beach County, Florida

We Dared to Live