Avi Posen shared useful tools to combat antisemitism to teachers at Ottawa Carleton District School Board Administrative and Central Support offices at Sir Robert Borden, October 6th, 2023. By Minda Chaikin After years of working together remotely, Avi Posen, the … Continued
CHES introduced Ted’s Story as part of a Board Wide PD Day for the new Grade 6 Holocaust Education curriculum requirements. Teachers’ workshops were offered for the Ottawa Carleton District School Board (OCDSB). The workshop was presented in cooperation with … Continued
November 13th – 14th, 2023, 2 sessions each day at 8:15am and12:30pm The workshop will provide education resources required for the new Grade 6 Social Studies Holocaust Curriculum. It will be presented in cooperation with the Azrieli Foundation, Yad Vashem … Continued
October 6th, 2023, 9:00 am November 15th, 2023, 8:00 am and 11:00 am Avi Posen will join the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) again this year, but this time in person. His new educational initiative is based on … Continued
On Friday, February 17, CHES delivered a workshop for OCDSB Canadian and World Studies (CWS) educators’ Professional Development Day at Colonel By Secondary School. CHES Chair Mina Cohn was approached in early January by a member of the CWS subject counsel with … Continued
A SPECIAL REPORT On January 27th, 1945, the Auschwitz- Birkenau concentration camp, where more than one million people died in its notorious gas chambers, was liberated. On January 27th, 2023 – International Holocaust Remembrance Day – students at Ottawa’s Sir … Continued