As part of HREC Education’s ongoing three-way Verba Magistri partnership with the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine and HREC in Ukraine, Director Valentina Kuryliw’s latest lesson, The Historian’s Craft Lesson on Human Rights and...
Continue Reading HREC Education in Ukraine: Lesson on Human Rights and the Holodomor Being Used by Students and in Professional Development Workshops for EducatorsHREC is a partner of the Heritages of Hunger Consortium, an initiative from Radboud University in the Netherlands, focusing on “Societal Reflections on Past European Famines in Education, Commemoration and Musealisation.” They seek to contribute towar...
Continue Reading Global Perspective on Heritages of Hunger conference | Heritages of Hunger Consortium | Charbonnel Lounge, St. Michael’s College, University of TorontoIn America, Social Studies teacher and 2020 HREC Educator Award recipient 𝗗𝗿. 𝗦𝘂𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘆 honours the 𝗨𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗲𝘀 of genocide as a Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Mont...
Continue Reading What teachers are doing for April Genocide Awareness Month 2024Holodomor Memorial Day Holodomor Memorial Day in Schools: the 4th Friday of November On the 29 May of 2008, the Parliament of Canada unanimously passed an “Act to Establish a Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day and to Recognize the U...
Continue Reading Holodomor Memorial Day 2024Pamela Clark, the 2024 recipient of the HREC Educator Award for Holodomor Lesson Plan Development, was a presenter at this year’s Calgary City Teachers’ Convention at the Hyatt Regency Calgary, a part of the Alberta Teachers’ Association (Feb...
Continue Reading 2024 HREC Educator Award Recipient Teaches 50 Educators about the Holodomor at Calgary Teachers’ ConventionThe Historian’s Craft Lesson on Human Rights and the Holodomor, published by CIUS Press in March 2024 (90 pages), offers a comprehensive educational approach to teaching students about human rights and the Holodomor in an engaging and interactive manner...
Continue Reading The Historian’s Craft Lesson on Human Rights and the HolodomorOn December 29, 2023, Valentina Kuryliw, HREC’s Director of Education, met with Katie Butte, Program Coordinator at the Cohen Education Center of the Holocaust Museum in Naples, Florida. Speaking as both an educator and as a daughter of Holodomor su...
Continue Reading HREC Director of Education Visits Holocaust Museum in Naples, FloridaTeachers who received training at the last Verba Magistri Summer School for Educators are now teaching Valentina Kuryliw’s The Historian’s Craft Lesson on Human Rights and the Holodomor to their colleagues in their respective regions of Uk...
Continue Reading Teacher-training Workshops in Ukraine Use Kuryliw’s latest book – and love the methodology in it“Continuity and Change: Teaching the Holodomor Genocide in Ukraine on its 90th Anniversary and the Current War on Ukraine – Using Food as a Weapon” HREC Education conducts professional master classes for educators that train teachers to develop stud...
Continue Reading Teacher Training Workshop at the Manitoba Social Science Teachers Association (MSSTA)“The Power of Hope in the Holodomor,” a lesson plan designed to inspire students to take action in adversity, earned educator Pamela Clark the sixth annual HREC Educator Award for Holodomor Lesson Plan Development. For creating a lesson plan based o...
Continue Reading “The Power of Hope in the Holodomor” Inspires Students to Take Action in Adversity. On the 90th Commemoration Calgary educator’s Holodomor lesson plan receives award.