Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award 2009 Denver Recipients
Kirsten Aarestad, Vantage
Point High School
Kirsten teaches an in depth course in the Holocaust and
Human Behavior in a small alternative school. She wants to engage her
students by asking them to read and reflect on the lives of the children during
the Holocaust in Salvaged Pages and I Never Saw Another Butterfly.
Students will create their own journal-inspired displays of the impact of
current issues in their lives today.
Kelly Lamsal, Thornton
High School
Kelly's students study Holocaust and Human Behavior,
and Kelly wishes to extend their understanding of issues raised in that case
study to the Cambodian genocide. Kelly
plans to travel to Cambodia to collect primary and secondary resources to use
in the class. Her award will fund a class set of First They Killed My Father, a memoir that vividly depicts the
impact of the Cambodian genocide on children.
Matt Bernstein,
Amy Biehl High School, Albuquerque, NM
Matt teaches a history and humanities course to 10th
graders, with Facing History as its foundation. His students have been
captivated by the Facing History's website, "Be the Change," and his project
will give them an opportunity to create their own interactive exhibit about
upstanders, titled "Upstanders in the Arts."
Mark is creating new materials for his Chicano Studies class, asking students to reflect on gang violence after they have studied Holocaust and Human Behavior. This award funds a class set of Always Running, which contains themes of the universe of obligation, conformity, peer pressure, and positive relationships.
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