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    PRESS RELEASE
    The Genocide Education Project
    Contact: Raffi Momjian ([email protected])
    (415) 264-4203
    [email protected]
    www.GenocideEd ucation.org

    Link to PR: http://www.genocideeducation.org/pr/2009/6_26_2009 .htm

    The Genocide Education Project Wraps up the 2008-2009 School Year

    The 2008-2009 school year concludes complete with workshops and sessions
    led by The Genocide Education Project. The Genocide Education Project
    led a two-day workshop for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
    educators - sponsored by the school district. The workshop fell on two
    Saturdays and provided LAUSD teachers an opportunity to learn about the
    Armenian Genocide and develop a lesson plan to use with their students
    in the upcoming school year.

    The workshop included a session on the history of the Armenian Genocide
    by Dr. Levon Marashlian, a professor at Glendale Community College who
    also serves on The Genocide Education Project's advisory board. His
    lecture included a detailed analysis of the factors leading to the
    genocide and a discussion regarding the response of the United States.
    Suzanne Berberian spoke at the workshop on Armenian American identity in
    public schools. She is a volunteer for The Genocide Education Project
    and holds a leadership position in the Pasadena School District.
    Teachers also participated in a session on identity and genocide
    sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves.

    Other sessions were led by Sara Cohan, Education Director of The
    Genocide Education Project, and included such topics as the history of
    the Armenians before 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, geopolitical
    ramifications of genocide denial and strategies for effectively teaching
    about the Armenian Genocide.

    The Genocide Education Project also ran two sessions at the Day of
    Learning in San Francisco, California. The Day of Learning is an annual
    program sponsored by the Holocaust Center of Northern California. It is
    an all day event that provides an opportunity for students, parents and
    teachers to learn about the history of genocide. Each year the program
    is designed around a particular theme. This year's theme was `Taking a
    Stand.' The Genocide Education Project focused on the role of media
    during genocide and specifically `The New York Times' during the
    Armenian Genocide. One session was designed for educators and the other
    for high school students. The Genocide Education Project has
    participated in this event for several years and is proud to support the
    work of the Holocaust Center of Northern California and their commitment
    to teaching about the Armenian Genocide.

    For more information about the work of The Genocide Education Project
    please visit www.GenocideEducation.org.


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    SIDEBAR:

    Meet Sara Cohan, Education Director, The Genocide Education Project

    Spring, 2009 - Sara Cohan has been named The Genocide Education
    Project's full-time Education Director. Cohan's comprehensive experience
    in the field of education, including research, curriculum development
    and teaching, make her particularly well-suited for the position.

    Having earned her Master of Science degree in Social Science Education
    from Florida State University and her Bachelor of Arts degree in
    Anthropology/Sociology from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, Cohan
    has taught secondary education in Florida, including Florida's
    International Baccalaureate (IB) program, which offers advanced academic
    courses with an international perspective. As a teacher, Cohan received
    the George Washington Medal of Honor from the Freedoms Foundation at
    Valley Forge, for the service-learning projects she implemented,
    including her work with Nobel Peace Laureate, Betty Williams, teaching
    students about human rights issues.

    Cohan is very familiar with genocide education, both from her
    professional experience and her family history, being a descendant of
    Armenian Genocide and having lost family in the Holocaust. She is very
    gratified to have taken this position. `The mission of the organization
    is also my own: to ensure that the history of genocide is remembered,
    analyzed, and discussed, and to use that history to find ways to thwart
    future genocides. Through education, I am contributing to the fight
    against genocide, and paying homage to my family's history at the same
    time.'

    She also worked as a research fellow for the Southern Poverty Law
    Center's Teaching Tolerance project, which combats prejudice in
    multicultural schools, providing free educational materials to teachers.
    She was a Fulbright-Hays scholar in Mexico, under the sponsorship of the
    United States Department of Education. There, she studied education and
    culture with a focus on Mexican Art as a vehicle to better understanding
    the diversity of Mexico.

    Selected as a Justice Teaching Fellow by the Supreme Court of Florida,
    Cohan went on to develop and implement a district-wide workshop on
    law-related education to educators in Pensacola.

    Cohan has written articles for scholarly journals and magazines, and has
    written educational materials for a variety of organizations, including
    The Genocide Education Project, and has recently authored an essay
    entitled `My Grandfather's Testimony' which will be included in the new
    book `Evoking Genocide: Scholars and Activists Describe the Works that
    Shaped their Lives.' The collection of essays will be available in
    September.

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    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.




    PICTURE CAPTIONS:

    (1) Sara Cohan, Education Director with The Genocide Education Project,
    working with teachers at "Day of Learning" in San Francisco, CA

    (2) Herman Clay, Director, History and Social Science Branch, Secondary
    Instructional Support Services, LAUSD, addressing teachers at The
    Genocide Education Project's LAUSD workshop

    (3) Sara Cohan

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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