In conjunction with the Center for Literacy Studies at The University of Tennessee and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the THC funded the development of a curriculum for Adult Learners called Lessons from the Holocaust: Educators' Resource Toolkit. For a revised web edition of the Toolkit, click here for part 1, here for part 2, here for part 3 and here for part 4. (The free Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to read these documents. If you don't have it, click here.) A new printed edition of the Toolkit will be available July 2003.

The Lessons curriculum was tested in pilot classrooms over a two-year period. In January 2001, twenty-five adult education teachers from Tennessee attended an intensive in-service workshop at the USHMM in Washington, D.C.

Check out The Tennessean front page story of February 12, 2001 - detailing the success of the January USHMM seminar for instructors of Adult Education.

Here's what a June 29, 2003 article in The Tennessean had to say about the newest Adult Education partnership (click here).

NEW!!! Twelve seasoned Adult Education practitioners are taking part in a one-year intensive project that will prepare them to train other AE teachers in using the "Lessons from the Holocaust" curriculum. They represent every AE program that Tennessee offers including GED preparation, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Families First (the federal welfare-to-work initiative) and Family Literacy and Workplace education programs.

The group convened in Washington at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum November 5-8, 2002, met for in-state training in Nashville January 13-15, 2003 and will reconvene at the Museum in DC June 12-14 with their community partners.

Participants are:

Kathie Bowles - Smith County
Cyndy Carter - Sumner County
Diane Cohn - Williamson County
Bryan Douglas - Cocke County
Susanne Elston - Bradley County
Sandra Fugate, Knox County
Micki Greer - McNairy County
Susie Lavenue - Crockett County
Shanna Sutton - Putnam County
Janet Vaden - Wilson County
Janice Wilkerson - Wilson County
Rebekah White-Williams - Crockett County
Joyce Yaeger - Cumberland County
Marva Sones Doremus - Department of Labor and Workforce
Development, Office of Adult Education
Barbara Eubank - Center for Literacy Studies

All of the AE teachers taking part in the NEW, intensive training program using "Lessons from the Holocaust" assemble for a group photo at the regional meeting in Nashville, January 2003.

January 2003 Regional Meeting photos:

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