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Online Facilitated Learning – Antisemitism (Fall 2024, Ontario Principals’ Council, Online)

September 25, 2024 to November 27, 2024

  • Category: Course, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Other, Teacher Development, Teacher Leadership
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), JK-SK, Junior (grades 4-6), Primary (grades 1-3), Senior (grades 11-12)

This course will support school leaders in naming, stopping, actively addressing, disrupting and dismantling Antisemitism in their schools and learning environments.

To understand Antisemitism, one needs to start by understanding both historical and contemporary Judaism. Antisemitism is the world’s oldest hate with unique characteristics that distinguish it from other prejudices and hostilities.

In this five-module course, school leaders will:

  • deepen their understanding of Antisemitism and its historical and present day manifestations in society and in spaces of education
  • participants will critically examine Jewish identity and diversity
  • take a trip to Ancient Judea to learn how anti-Judaism first developed
  • learn about Antisemitism during exile and the progression of antisemitic ideologies as they morphed from religious to racial Antisemitism
  • learn how racial supremacism was combined with socioeconomic discontents after WWI to produce a most virulent strain of Antisemitism during the Holocaust, and
  • learn about what Zionism is and isn’t and about the role of Israel in Jewish identity as we look at examples of modern manifestations of Antisemitism.