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This special exhibition showcases stories of the Kindertransport, in collaboration with the Austrian Embassy, Classrooms Without Borders, and the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR OPENING RECEPTION […]
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Garrette and I are safely home from our Vienna Prague Seminar and want to express our gratitude to Classrooms Without Borders and the amazing group of educators with whom we […]
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Every educator, no matter their subject, comes into their profession with the crude outline of a puzzle. There are pieces missing along the border and some sporadic pieces in the […]
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Part 1 ‘Teaching History with Human Connections’Teaching history, we often get caught up in the facts (events, places, etc.). We can make the biggest impact with the memorable stories of […]
Read MoreToday’s most impactful visit was the train station memorials. Seeing the imprints of the hands of adults and children along with the statue of a man with 2 children hit […]
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Their names are listed on the wall or on stones in the ground, on memorials or written in books. In the silence, you can hear their screams for justice, for […]
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When I first applied for the CWB Vienna- Prague 2023 teacher study tour, I wrote how I hoped we would be able to travel to Lidice, knowing that it was […]
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As an English teacher, I deeply value books and the written word. Books teach us about people and things we may not otherwise ever be able to encounter. Today, standing […]
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After an afternoon in Česky Krumlov, we arrived in Prague. It’s been ten years since I first studied with CWB here and 20 years since I first visited as a […]
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Stalin famously said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of ten million is a statistic.” I knew going in that it would be nearly impossible to […]
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