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The Genocide
Education Project Trains Grant HS Teachers
Los Angeles, CA— Teachers at Grant
High School in Los Angeles learned how to teach about the
Armenian Genocide at a workshop provided by The Genocide
Education Project on their campus on January, 17.
Suzanne Douzmanian, GenEd's
Southern California Regional Coordinator led the workshop for
Grant's social studies teachers, which is part of a series of
teacher-training events provided in coordination with the Los
Angeles Unified School District, which has purchased GenEd's
lesson plans and teaching materials for all its high school
history teachers.
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Suzanne Douzmanian,
GenEd's Southern California Regional Coordinator |
"Suzanne gave an enthralling and
thought provoking workshop," said Kevin Kruska, Grant's social
studies department chair. "I felt like everybody came away from
the workshop with a greater understanding of genocide and
specifically, the Armenian Genocide."
Grant High School has a substantial Armenian student population
that has experienced tensions with the school's Latino students.
In the weeks leading up to the workshop, Kruska and GenEd's
education director, Sara Cohan, discussed ways of integrating
the study of Armenian issues into the curriculum, as a means of
building understanding and mutual respect within the diverse
student body, as well as between the teachers and students.
The workshop theme was "The Eight Stages of Genocide," a
valuable teaching tool developed by Dr. Gregory Stanton, a past
president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
"By using Stanton's work, teachers and students can better
comprehend the intentional and methodical nature of the Armenian
Genocide, as well as all genocides, and can analyze ways of
preventing genocide in the future," said Raffi Momjian, GenEd's
Executive Director.
Teachers received a full set of resources on the Armenian
Genocide produced by GenEd and provided by the Los Angeles
Unified School District.
The LAUSD is the second largest school district in the country
and has been collaborating with GenEd over the past eight years
to help fulfill the California state mandate to teach about the
Armenian Genocide.
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The Genocide Education
Project is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that
assists educators in teaching about human rights and genocide,
particularly the Armenian Genocide, by developing and
distributing instructional materials, providing access to
teaching resources and organizing educational workshops.
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