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Dear John,
We are settling back into the school-year routine all over the country, from elementary school classrooms to college campuses. For us at ADL, this is an exciting time to help students, educators and communities reject hate and bias.
ADL is there to help when incidents arise, as it did during this past school year when we learned of an alarming incident at Watkins Elementary School in Washington, D.C. involving a school librarian who allegedly instructed third grade students to reenact elements of the Holocaust. Together with the school district, our regional education team mobilized quickly with other local Jewish communal partners and shared key resources to support the students, their dismayed families and the entire school community. This is just one example of the many ways that ADL Education makes a difference.
As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I am deeply aware of the power of education to divide or unite people. That inspired me to come to ADL 15 years ago to help create more respectful and inclusive schools, positively influence students and educators and respond to incidents of bias like the one at Watkins Elementary. I feel an enormous sense of pride in our many anti-bias, Holocaust and antisemitism resources and programs. In 2022, ADL Education has already provided anti-bias education to 3 million K-12 students and educated 950,000 youth and other learners on antisemitism.
High school students and educators at a No Place For Hate event in Georgia.
As a member of the ADL community, you should take pride in knowing you support programs that will make a difference for educators and students this fall, including:
- No Place for Hate, which continues to be a transformational school climate initiative that has had a big impact year after year. Last year, close to 2,500 schools registered for No Place for Hate, adding 300 new schools. We will continue to make No Place for Hate available and accessible to all school communities.
- To date, hundreds of educators have successfully completed ADL’s 4-week anti-bias learning course Breaking Down Bias: Championing Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms. This online learning experience has enabled us to deliver professional learning at scale and extends ADL Education’s reach into rural communities. Educators will have the opportunity to participate again in October and January.
- In addition to ongoing professional learning for educators, ADL will deliver antisemitism and Holocaust education directly to students for the very first time. New online, self-directed student activities from Echoes & Reflections were released this summer on topics including Jewish life before the Holocaust, antisemitism and media literacy in Holocaust education.
- Newly revised Words to Action activities reflect today’s challenges in confronting antisemitism and will be powerful tools to empower thousands of Jewish youth to address antisemitism in their schools and communities and explore their Jewish identity in 2022 and beyond.
If you want to find out more about our education programs and how to bring them to your community, please visit
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ADL.org’s education section. And if you or the students in your life witness antisemitism or other forms of bias in a school context, reach out to our education team (there’s one in every
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ADL regional office ) so we can help as we did in the appalling incident at Watkins Elementary School.
ADL Education is looking forward to supporting school communities during the new school year!
Sincerely,
Ariel Behrman
Director of Education Programs & Products
ADL
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