Melissa Conrad, Elizabeth Tompkins, and Erika Feigenbaum PhD

"Teaching Tolerance: Memoirs of the Holocaust" is a program created by Conrad and her colleagues to link history and the present-day while teaching students about the dangers of prejudice and oppression. They aim to help students at James Ford Rhodes High School incorporate language arts, history and visual art concepts through the development of their work. Tenth and eleventh -grade students will create a journal-like piece recording the identity of a chosen individual from the Holocaust. This history will be captured in an altered book. Pages will be added and removed along with additional inserts. Conrad's ultimate goal is to form a student activist group that advocates diversity awareness, cultural tolerance and nonviolent problem solving.