UNION, NJ — Holocaust Learning Experience is now being implemented in the Union school system.
HLE is a nonprofit developed by MorseLife Health System in West Palm Beach and will implement HLE’s age-appropriate Holocaust education model for students in grades five through 12 in the Union School District. The mission is to educate and transform generations to end antisemitism and combat hate, bigotry and prejudice. This curriculum also fills a critical gap acting as a resource for teachers who have never been trained in Holocaust studies.
Michelle Foligno works as a program director with HLE. She started working with them while she lived in Florida and now works remotely from Cedar Knolls. Recently, she conducted a district training for grades five through 12 at Union High School. Foligno grew up in Union and said it was great to go to the high school and show the teachers a few lessons. “They had a professional development day,” she said. “We were one of the seminars. The teachers were very interested. I got to show them the whole program. There were middle school and high school teachers there.”…