Holocaust Educators Network of Michigan

The Holocaust Educator Network of Michigan Seminar will return to The Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills for a week-long summer institute. The institute is scheduled for the week of June 23, 2025.

We will again bring teachers from across the state together to study the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights topics from the perspective of classroom teachers and teacher leaders; we will witness and study together, and then collaborate to take teaching ideas back to classrooms, school districts, college campuses, and writing project sites all over Michigan. 

The seminar will ask teachers to think about historic and contemporary events and issues through the lens of local places and will learn about local programs and initiatives taking on the legacy of injustice in the lived experience of Michigan citizens. Teachers will be asked to think and work with their students on informed action projects that grow out of a study of historic and contemporary injustice and trauma. Because the goal of the project extends beyond the seminar to the creation of a vibrant state-wide network of Holocaust educators, participants are able come to the seminar as individuals, or as part of a school, district, or project team, and are invited to stay connected after the seminar ends, joining a network of more than 200 Michigan teachers who have participated in HEN of Michigan programs.
 
There are twenty-five spots available for the 2025 seminar, and the application is competitive. First priority will be given to those teachers who can demonstrate interest, commitment, and/or experience in Holocaust and social justice education. Participants will be immersed in seminal Holocaust Education experiences, including survivor testimony, consideration of historical, Third Reich era, and contemporary Judaism, expert guest lectures, visits to museums and presentations from museum educators, and visits to significant historical social justice locations in Michigan. Participants will be given support to return to their local classrooms, schools, and communities to provide Holocaust education, which they then contribute back to the members of a growing state-wide network.