Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award: 2008 Recipients

Applicants were asked to submit proposals for projects related to the work of Facing History that would cost up to $2500 to implement. Educators from public and private schools who work with children in grades 6-12 and who have taken at least one Facing History and Ourselves institute or online course were eligible to apply. A special thanks to David and Nina Fialkow, the generous sponsors of this award, and to the selection committee for their careful consideration.

The 2008 recipients are:

Sara Alegria (Hialeah, FL)    
Jose Marti Middle School, Florida   
Funded classroom technology to incorporate podcasts into the Facing History classroom while studying Holocaust and Human Behavior

Jennifer Derosby (Denver, CO)  
P.S. 1 Charter School   
Funded a drama production based on Holocaust and Human Behavior and using the book Salvaged Pages

Lori Eiler (East Cleveland, OH) 
Shaw High School    
Funded a "Be the Change" upstander program at the high school

Tim Evenden (Aylmer, ON)   
East Elgin Secondary School, Canada  
Funded Facing History speakers and poster sets

Sara Beth Gregory (Memphis, TN)   
White Station Middle School    
Funded a class set of "I Promised I Would Tell" for 7th graders who kept reflective journal and wrote expository essays

Emily Haines (New York, NY)   
Facing History School    
Partially funded teacher travel to the Dominican Republic to develop a case study

Courtney Herbert (Perry, GA)  
Perry High School, Georgia    
Purchased a classroom set of Holocaust and Human Behavior

Ali Irfan (Quetta, Pakistan)
Organized a student symposium on the Holocaust and human rights in Pakistan

Diane Smith Keon (North Eastham, MA)
Nauset Regional HS    
Partially funded a Civil Rights class trip to the South

Marguerite Kling (Tampa, FL) 
Nature Coast Technical HS, Tampa    
Provided a scholarship for Facing History's online course and a class set of "I Promised I Would Tell"

Kent Lenci  (Manchester, MA) 
Brookwood School   
Funded a German teacher with online scholarship; subsequently developed a sister school partnership

Carrie McCarthy (Wyoming, OH)  
Wyoming High School   
Funded technology and art/scrapbooking supplies for end-of-unit "choosing to participate" projects and a school-wide exhibit for students who studied Holocaust and Human Behavior

Nora Mullane  (Fremont, CA)  
Thornton Junior HS   
Funded a school-wide Civil Rights eventdeveloped a group of special education students

Lynn Murphy (Arlington, TN)
Shadowlawn Middle School   
Funded supplies for a student projectpicture books about a Holocaust topic

Aiden O'Hara  (Weston, MA) 
Weston Middle School   
Created a drama project based on Choices in Little Rock

Stephanie Papas (Union City, CA) and Gabrielle Hedlund (Castro Valley, CA)
Logan HS and Castro Valley HS   
Funded a two-school student symposium on transitional justice

Amy Rathgeb and Yael Glick  (New York, NY)  
Satellite Academy at Forsyth   
Partially funded a trip to Rwanda for Facing History staff and alumni

Catherine Raveczky (Lakewood, CO) 
Lakewood High School   
Purchased class sets of Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book as well as Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization:  The Genocide of the Armenians

Leia Richardson and Maura Sheehy  (Arlington, MA)   
Arlington High School   
Funded a student workshop on conflict resolution in Northern Ireland at the Corrymeela Retreat Center

Melissa Riley, Kelly Peacock and Gwynne Ryan (Des Plaines, IL)
Maine West High School   
Provided Facing History resources for a world cultures course

Carolyn V.M. Smith (Charlestown, MA)
Edwards Middle School   
Funded a "Civics in Action" project with Americorps volunteerswhich presented stories of young people who took action in response to community problems

Abbe Snyder (Lake Worth, FL)   
Lake Worth High School, Florida  
Partially funded teacher travel to Yad Vashem for professional development and presentation

Katherine Szerdy (Twinsburg, OH)   
Twinsburg High School   
Funded classroom print and film resources to enhance a Holocaust and Human Behavior unit as well as a Choosing to Participate unit entitled"Voice: Agent of Change"

Jessica Tang (Boston, MA)  
Gavin Middle School   
Partially funded a class trip to WashingtonDC to study civics and the Holocaust

Amsler Terrance  (San Francisco, CA)  
June Jordan School for Equity   
Developed a semester-long course on justice and judgment

Hardy Thames (Memphis, TN)
Central High School   
Funded books and videos on Sudan for a classroom unit that culminated in a "Jam for Sudan" fundraiser

Joanne Tuck (Boston, MA)   
Wentworth Institute of Technology   
Partially funded a longitudinal study of Facing History alumniwith a control group of non-FH students

Jo Upton  (London, England)  
Woolwich Polytechnic Institute   
Funded teacher travel to U.S. to observe in-depth Facing History schools and bring ideas back to U.K.

Merri Weir (Carson, CA)   
Carson High School Humanitas   
Funded a multimedia project on "Becoming American: the Chinese Experience" in a Language Arts classroom

Maegan Williams (Los Angeles, CA)   
Franklin High School:  Health & Human Services Academy   
Funded a field trip that culminated in multimedia projects about upstanders from Civil Rights Movement

Robert Wood (Chicago, IL)   
Ellen Mitchell Elementary School   
Re-created and filmed the "doll project" in a Choices in Little Rock unit