Educational Excellence
The 16th Annual Council of Holocaust Educators Conference
Memory into Memoir: Teaching Through Personal History
December 1, 2017
Bring the powerful impact of personal history into your classroom. Join us to hear fi rst-hand from Educators and Exhibit Curators on innovative educational resources and approaches!
Download the flyer to find out more >
Memory into Memoir: Teaching Through Personal History
December 1, 2017
Bring the powerful impact of personal history into your classroom. Join us to hear fi rst-hand from Educators and Exhibit Curators on innovative educational resources and approaches!
Download the flyer to find out more >
Thanks to Michele Contala for the photos from the Info Fair at AZS Convention 2016.
Carol Schwartz, Gamma, is the chairperson for the Educational Excellence program.
From the society's web page: This committee shall promote programs and projects for excellence in education. The committee shall identify long-term and short-term programs and projects that focus upon topics adopted by the Society. The committee shall support programs of action that promote the personal well-being, intellectual growth, and global awareness of women educators; encourage a focus on the arts at international conventions, regional conferences and state organization conventions and develop strategies that will enable chapters to encourage members to become leaders.
Educational Excellence Newsletter, EEC News, May/June 2014
Educational Excellence Brochure for download
Educational Excellence Newsletter, EEC News, January/February 2014
From the society's web page: This committee shall promote programs and projects for excellence in education. The committee shall identify long-term and short-term programs and projects that focus upon topics adopted by the Society. The committee shall support programs of action that promote the personal well-being, intellectual growth, and global awareness of women educators; encourage a focus on the arts at international conventions, regional conferences and state organization conventions and develop strategies that will enable chapters to encourage members to become leaders.
Educational Excellence Newsletter, EEC News, May/June 2014
Educational Excellence Brochure for download
Educational Excellence Newsletter, EEC News, January/February 2014
Schools for Africa Became the Society's first official international project in 2010. Members have donated, as of January 2013, $120,665 to the project from 2010-2013. Currently the project works with 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa including Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ethiopia and Madagascar. The SFA mission involves providing access to quality basic education for children, focusing on girls, orphans and other vulnerable youngsters. UNICEF works through this project with governments, local authorities, communities and other partners to:
SFA Powerpoint Presentations
Schools for Africas Newsettes
- Foster community participation in school management
- Build and improve classroom buildings and equipment
- Create safe and protective environments where children can learn and play(CFS, Child-Friendly School programs)
- Provide access to clean water and separate sanitation facilities for boys and girls in schools
- Supply exercise books, pens, proper furniture and other school and sports materials
- Train teachers to provide children with quality education and basic life skills
- Educate children about proper hygiene and HIV prevention: this knowledge is passed on to siblings, parents, and the community at large
- Provide other interventions, including but not limited to health check-ups, immunization and scholarships
- Insure a stimulating start in life to children below age five
- Early childhood development
- Access and retention to quality primary basic education
- Non-formal education
- HIV prevention in schools
- Education in emergenices
SFA Powerpoint Presentations
Schools for Africas Newsettes
