Ashes in the Snow Workshop for Teachers
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Description
Join us for a free professional development opportunity! The perfect opportunity to get free exchange time before the holidays! Attend an educator workshop, film screening, and Q&A presented by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Boxed lunch will be provided.
The workshop aims to support educators in teaching about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Baltic deportations during WWII. Workshop attendees will also have the chance to have a conversation with the Foundation’s Director of Academic Programs, Dr. Murray Bessette.
Murray Bessette is the director of academic programs at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, where he leads its educational and scholarly activities.
Based on the successful approach of its National Seminar for Middle and High School Educators, the workshop provides content knowledge, pedagogic support, and peer-to-peer sharing to empower teachers in their classroom.
The workshop will be followed by a screening of ASHES IN THE SNOW—the movie adaptation of the novel BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY, and now the highest grossing film in Lithuanian history! After the screening, please stay for a Q&A with credited supporter Daiva Cekanauskas Navarrette. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see this moving film on the big screen!
About the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is an educational and human rights nonprofit organization authorized by a unanimous Congressional Act, which was signed as Public Law 103-199 by President William J. Clinton on December 17, 1993. From 2003 to 2009, President George W. Bush was Honorary Chairman of the Foundation. On June 12, 2007, he dedicated the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Foundation is excited to partner with Ms. Ruta Sepetys, the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray; and Mr. Marius Markevicius, director of Ashes in the Snow; as well as Penguin Young Readers to deliver this series of local workshops to assist educators in teaching about the Baltic deportations through the incorporation of the novel and film.
