Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award 2009 San Francisco Recipients

The following is a list of the Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award 2009 Recipients from San Francisco. These educators each creatively incorporated Facing History resources and philosophies into their individual projects. Read more about the award and the other recipients.

Trevor Gardner, City Arts & Tech High School
Trevor has taken several seminars and workshops with Facing History.  He is intrigued by the idea of carrying Facing History ideas into the entire school community.  He will be creating, instituting and maintaining a positive school culture by integrating restorative justice principles into a newly-created Student Review Panel. He will use Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower as a case study for the whole school.

Laurie Hughes, Oceana High School
Laurie's extensive involvement with Facing History (through seminars including Holocaust and Human Behavior, as well as workshops) has been working hard to infuse Facing History in her school's culture.  Her proposal is to create a strong service-learning component after students complete a two-year Facing History humanities course which is grounded in Holocaust and Human Behavior.   She will use Facing History's website, "Be the Change," to inspire students to create their own service-learning projects.  The award will fund an activist poet to engage students in a culminating project.


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