Anti-Bullying
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Voices Needed for Decency – Don’t Stay Silent
by Joanie Schirm on December 19, 2016 PermalinkVoices Needed for Decency and Peace—Don’t Stay Silent I was moved today by this excellent Opinion Column in the Orlando Sentinel. Written by Pam Kancher, Executive Director of the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, her words share a timeless reminder that we each carry a voice that must speak up when we
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Students learn of differences and similarities with others through family history research to “recognize the origins of old-new dangers.”
by Joanie Schirm on November 29, 2016 Permalink“Hopefully, education and knowledge of history linked together with pure compassion and humanity will let us recognize the origins of old-new dangers and tie down the demons of hatred and evil before they grow to overcome us again.” Vaclav Havel, First President of the Czech Republic As important today as ever, students can learn similarities