Leadership Institute

HEN teachers, faculty, and Memorial Library Board Members

Graduates of the Summer Seminar are encouraged to apply for the Leadership Institute, a program that allows them to grow as Holocaust educators and as teachers of other teachers. The program has two steps. First, teams who have been accepted into the Institute travel to New York City to work with HEN leaders and outside consultants on the design of their satellites. Then, following the Institute, teams return home and begin the work of mounting a seminar by firming up commitments with local partners and by submitting a full proposal which will describe in detail the seminar they plan to hold the following year. The Leadership Institute is offered every three years in June in New York City.

In this five-day institute, HEN teachers:

  • Deepen their understanding of issues related to the Holocaust
  • Work collaboratively on the design of satellite seminars
  • Consider what it means to be a leader in one’s school and community
  • Develop administrative capacities and problem-solving strategies necessary for program development and outreach

Are you interested? To be considered for the 2013 Leadership Institute, HEN members must complete an application that includes the following:

  • Two HEN teachers who will work as a team. Both team members need to document their active and ongoing engagement with Holocaust and genocide education following their participation in the Summer Seminar.
  • A local partner. Partners can include a National Writing Project site, a local Holocaust center, or a university or school that will provide space and other support services for the seminar.
  • A brief two-page proposal that describes the focus of the proposed seminar, the themes and questions to be addressed, the relevant connections to local issues, and a list of local resources.

Applications for the next Leadership Institute will be available in September 2012 and should be submitted to the Memorial Library by December 15. Teams will be notified by February 1, 2013.

Professor Bjorn Krondorfer leads the group in a personal inquiry

Collating our pasts with a collage of texts

It’s not enough to know what happened. Where does social action come in? Is there a way to move from knowing about events to writing about events to actually doing something about these events in the world today?”

- Sondra Perl, Seminar Director

Contact

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