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Local Community Resource List


While I was in my course, I encountered many e-resources from organizations working all over the country and world.  We also have many resources in our own community of Los Angeles which we can use to adapt to our goals as global educators.


Local Community Resource List: The following list is designed to help teachers at Beverly Hills High School as they attempt to globalize their teaching.  We are lucky to live in Los Angeles where there are so many multicultural and global organizations to help us deepen our students’ understanding of the world at large.


 Organization
Description of Services
Contact Info
CA World History Project

The California International Studies Project (CISP) conducts a statewide project, the Contemporary World History Project (CWHP), to prepare high school World History teachers for leadership roles in engaging their students in the complexity, excitement and intrigue of history and world politics.  CWHP is particularly interested in involving classrooms with a high proportion of English learners or at-risk students.  While the content is rigorous enough to challenge college students, the program's group work strategies and focus on content literacy successfully engage students who normally tend to have little interest in World History or commitment to school.  It is this type of student who consistently makes the greatest gains. What is particularly remarkable is that in other states, this program's prototype is only offered to honors and college students.
Ron Herring,
CISP Executive Director,
650-678-6636,
The Museum of Tolerance
The Museum of Tolerance (MOT) is the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an internationally renowned Jewish human rights organization.  The only museum of its kind in the world, the MOT is dedicated to challenging visitors to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts and confront all forms of prejudice and discrimination in our world today. 

 Visitors become witnesses to history and explore the dynamics of bigotry and discrimination that are still embedded in society today. Through interactive exhibits, special events, and customized programs for youths and adults, the Museum engages visitors’ hearts and minds, while challenging them to assume personal responsibility for positive change. 

This local institution offers such a motivational mix of historical discovery and personal empowerment.
Youth Education: 310.772.2547
youthed@museumoftolerance.com
Tools For Tolerance® For Teens
310.772.7614
edprograms@museumoftolerance.com
Public Matters
Public Matters is an interdisciplinary, social enterprise for artists, media professionals and educators. They design and implement innovative programs that build social, creative, and civic capital in communities.  Services include Public Art Installations, New Media, Education, Teacher Training and Leadership Development.
Public Matters
1439 Elevado Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026
323.953.0691
info@publicmattersgroup.com www.publicmattersgroup.com
Facing History and Ourselves

A worldwide organization that enables transformative dialogue, fosters empathy and reflection, and improves students’ academic performance. Through rigorous investigation of the events that led to the Holocaust and other recent examples of genocide and mass violence, students in a Facing History class learn to choose knowledge over misinformation, compassion over prejudice or bullying, and participation over indifference or resignation. It’s active—rather than passive—learning.
https://www.facinghistory.org/contact
FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising)

FIDM provides classroom projects as a supplement to high school curricula to enhance the learning process. Activities have been created to demonstrate the connection between what is being taught in their high school classes and how that information is used in industry today. The objective of these projects is to provide students with an entertaining, “real life” way of understanding and thinking. Students will be challenged to think innovatively by learning to use different learning methods such as research and debate.
The projects call for teamwork, which creates an environment that promotes and fosters personal growth.
Each activity consists of an objective and project guidelines.  Activity areas include Language Arts, Foreign Language, Art and Business.
Just for Educators
c/o FIDM
800 South Hope Street
Fifth Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Telephone: 818.990.2241
                       
The Getty Museum
A variety of educational resources available for teachers and students including lesson plans tied to the Common Core.
General inquiries: museumeducation@getty.edu
Questions about K–12 teacher programs: teacherprograms@getty.edu
(310) 440-7158
Education Consortium for Central LA
Some of the best field trip opportunities that Los Angeles has to offer. Many museums and organizations provide subsidized admission and/or bus scholarships to Title I schools in LA.  They’ve provided everything teachers need to get started planning field trips with handy drop down menus.
http://eccla.org/teacherresources-blog/fieldtrips/
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Education Programs.
LACMA has developed curriculum materials. The creation of the curriculum reflects the museum's desire to provide teachers with resources to enhance their visual arts instruction.  All the curriculum materials are based on works of art in LACMA's permanent collection and were developed in alignment with California State Content Standards.
Education Department 323 857-6512  educate@lacma.org
Cal Arts Cultural Resources List
A comprehensive list of cultural activities for Los Angeles students with links to locations around the city.
http://calarts.edu/campus/los-angeles-cultural-resources

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