Call for Action
Announcement: Seneca Valley Teachers Experience Life-Changing Seminars Five Seneca Valley teachers recently returned from a transformative tour of the Holocaust in Poland, thanks to a continuing partnership with Classrooms Without […]
Read More
Pittsburgh-area educators and students extended their classrooms by traveling 700 miles to explore the Civil Rights Movement in depth. From June 16-24, the learning cohort journeyed through Atlanta, Montgomery, Selma, […]
Read More
This day was basically the only day when we didn’t focus on the Holocaust. It was a nice break and certainly a needed halt from studying and learning about the […]
Read More
It wasn’t until I witnessed one of the greatest atrocities in world history with people I had just met a handful of days ago, that I realized the power of […]
Read More
How can people be so cruel? Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler said this to the CWB cohort on Wednesday evening. I may be paraphrasing a bit, but that is pretty close. He was telling […]
Read More
Visiting Auschwitz was a surreal and profoundly moving experience. As the largest Nazi German concentration camp and, since 1942, also a mass extermination center for Jews, Auschwitz stands as a […]
Read More
Going to the town today was beautiful. Starting off with the bus ride to it. The whole route was just view after view. It goes to show that there’s so […]
Read More
In Majdanek’s silent blocks they lie,Echoes of lives that passed us by,A sea of shoes, a testament,To lives extinguished, souls that went. Leather worn, fabric frayed,Tiny shoes where children played,Heels […]
Read More
As an English teacher and a First Amendment professor, I spend a lot of time thinking about words. In my role as a high school English teacher, I am constantly […]
Read More
A Different Kind of Understanding: A Middle School Teacher’s Reflections on Majdanek by Traci Borden
I teach middle school ELA, and my literature textbook for 8th grade has a story in it entitled “Walking With Living Feet.” The story is about a high schooler visiting […]
Read More