Teacher Workshops 2025 Calendar Coming Spring 2025

2025 Workshop Calendar will be announced in March 2025

In 2018, the Kentucky state legislature passed the Ann Klein and Fred Gross Holocaust Education Act, which mandates Holocaust education in all public middle and high schools. Our workshops are designed to support Kentucky teachers in meeting that mandate.

Workshops are interactive and include ten total hours of content through both live workshop sessions (at least six hours) and asynchronous activities (no more than four hours). Workshops are available both in-person and virtually via Zoom. Please note that some workshops occur over the course of multiple days while others are one-day events.

Teachers, para-educators, librarians, and other instructional staff serving grades 6-12 (of both public and private schools) can opt to participate in these workshops for a stipend of $250 dollars ($25/hour) or for professional development hours. Stipends are limited by the amount of grant money available and will be awarded based on order of registration. If you hope to receive a stipend for your participation, please register as soon as possible. Teachers and instructional staff serving grades that fall outside the mandate can still register for workshops and receive professional development for their participation. Previous experience teaching the Holocaust is not required to attend these workshops.

Workshops will be facilitated by experienced teachers from across the Commonwealth trained as UK-JHF Initiative teacher leaders as well as University of Kentucky professors from the Colleges of Arts & Sciences and Education. Each workshop will vary slightly in featured sessions but will generally explore a range of topics such as Jewish history in Kentucky; strategies for dealing with antisemitism; active learning and inquiry; attention to thoughtful language; trauma-informed teaching; using the arts to teach the Holocaust; and more.