06 12 22 - THE GENOCIDE EDUCATION PROJECT REACHES HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE

PRESS RELEASE - (From Annette Melikian , L.A )

The Genocide Education Project
51 Commonwealth Avenue, San Francisco,CA 94118-(415) 264-4203
info@GenocideEducation.org - www.GenocideEducation.org
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Contact: Sara Cohan - sarac@genocideeducation.org
http://www.genocideeducation.org/pr/2006/12_15_2006.htm

Washington, DC, December 15, 2005 — The Genocide Education Project expanded on its participation in the annual conference of the National Council for the Social Studies, which took place November 30th through December 3rd in Washington, DC. The Genocide Education Project drew more than 700 educators to its information booth, disseminating new and varied instructional materials about the Armenian Genocide. Education
Director, Sara Cohan, conducted a workshop on "Exploring the Impact of the Armenian Genocide," incorporating genocide survivor photographs and
testimony. In addition, Cohan and Executive Director, Raffi Momjian conducted a one-day teaching "clinic" entitled, "Teaching Genocide in the Age of Genocide," in collaboration with the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Facing History and Ourselves and the Choices Program at Brown University.

This year's hallmark conference for social studies educators drew approximately 4500 educators from around the country.
The Genocide Education Project's booth distributed information and guides about teaching the Armenian Genocide in the classroom and collected educators'
contact information to keep them informed about future projects and teacher training workshops it conducts and to update them about the various teaching resources it develops.

After working together for the past year to organize the one-day clinic "Teaching Genocide in the Age of Genocide," The Genocide Education Project led a team of educators from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Facing History and Ourselves, and the Choices Program at Brown University, providing an approach to genocide education which considers causes, methods, parallel events, individual responsibility, and prevention.

"Having the opportunity to work with educational organizations who share a common mission was exhilarating" commented The Genocide Education
Project's Executive Director, Raffi Momjian. He continued, "The result was exactly what we had hoped for —teachers attending our presentations
received a solid introduction to the subject of genocide education and based on their post-clinic comments, are ready to explore the subject
with their students."

The Genocide Education Project also was selected to present a one-hour workshop, "Exploring the Impact of the Armenian Genocide through Contemporary Photographs and Survivor Testimony." Using a lesson plan
developed by The Genocide Education Project, based on the iWitness photograph exhibit by Levon Parian and Ara Oshagan, teachers modeled classroom activities using photographs and testimony of survivors of the
Armenian Genocide in order to better understand the impact of genocide.

Next year's NCSS Annual Conference will be held in San Diego, California. The Genocide Education Project is looking forward to continuing its outreach at this and other conferences, working directly with educators, providing them with innovative teaching material on the
Armenian Genocide and professional development opportunities to engage with colleagues on the subject.


The Genocide Education Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that assists educators in teaching about human rights and genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide, by developing and distributing instructional materials, providing access to teaching resources and organizing educational workshops.

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Picture Caption: Sara Cohan, The Genocide Education Project's Education Director, collaborating with educators at NCSS 2006 booth

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