Crossing Lines

Thanks to the generous support of TOLI, we are thrilled to begin the 9th year as a satellite seminar program. Unlike our past years, and in response to COVID-19, this year's seminar will be online (via Zoom), with weekly calls over the course of 6 weeks.

Each year brings new opportunities to connect with amazing educators who are passionate about teaching for social justice and providing students with an understanding of the common threads that connect the exclusion and forced removal of any group of people. Through the lens of the Holocaust, Japanese-American incarceration, the “Secret War in Laos,” and the recent Rwandan genocide, participants will examine the impact of “bystanders” and the power of “upstanders” to change the history of their communities and the world.

Crossing Lines participants will gain:

• access to powerful primary and secondary sources for promoting resilience and social justice.

• insights into developing inquiry-based, standards-aligned (Common Core State Standards) lessons.

• an understanding of how propaganda can be used as a tool to incite hate and violence against targeted groups.

• an understanding that we often do not truly know who sits in front of us in our classrooms or beside us in our faculty and board rooms or across the street in our neighborhoods and communities.