Foundations of Resistance
- Choosing
- Knowing
- Understanding
- Building
A Curriculum to Counter Antisemitism for Grades 6-12
Choosing Leadership
A 50-Minute Classroom Lesson for Grades 10-12
Develop a positive leadership identity. Recognize leadership as a set of activities in which anyone can participate. Choose your leadership style and discover how a teenage partisan used that same leadership style to do enormous good for others. Explore what matters most to you and learn to set goals based on your own values.
Knowing Antisemitism
A 50-Minute Classroom Lesson for Grades 9-12
Resisting antisemitism begins with identifying antisemitism. Explore the history of antisemitism and age-old antisemitic tropes. Examine the impact antisemitism has on society and empower yourself by learning to recognize and call out antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Understanding the Partisans
A 50-Minute Classroom Lesson for Grades 6-12
Meet the Jewish partisans of World War II. Transform your understanding of the Jewish experience during the Holocaust and discover the paramount importance of empathy in a healthy society. Explore ways to cultivate your own empathy and increase your empathetic behavior.
Building Resistance
A 50-Minute Classroom Lesson for Grades 10-12
Discover why antisemitism is an indicator of the health of a democracy. Examine the impact antisemitism has on your life, your community, and your country. Learn how to resist antisemitism in an array of situations. Understand why study is the prerequisite to social action and learn how to address systemic antisemitism.
Teach students why they should and how they can resist antisemitism.
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Foundations of Resistance utilizes the history and life lessons of the Jewish partisans of World War II to teach students why and how to resist antisemitism. Foundations teaches students to act with increased empathy; to recognize and call out antisemitism; to build a positive leadership identity; and to resist antisemitism both systemically and in their everyday lives.
Teacher-Friendly
Foundations of Resistance is a curriculum consisting of four classroom lessons for varying grade-level ranges between 6th and 12th grade. The curriculum is versatile; lessons can be taught individually, in tandem, in trios, or can be extended into a complete four-lesson unit of study.
Each Foundations lesson can be completed in a single classroom period, and each comes with a comprehensive Teacher’s Guide, complete with curriculum details, lesson plan, resources, and other useful materials and information.
Foundations of Resistance aligns with the California Department of Education’s Common Core Standards across Social Studies, English, and History, and is compatible with educational standards across all 50 states.
Engaging Webquests
Each Foundations lesson is centered on a unique webquest that can be accessed on a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. A webquest is an online educational program in which students can make choices about which topics they wish to explore within a guided framework.
Foundations webquests use interactive imagery, illustrations and other multimedia, combined with advance organizers, to immerse students in the topics of empathy, antisemitism, leadership, and resistance.
Key Curriculum Objectives
All Foundations of Resistance lessons are based on Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives and utilize response-based assessment tools to evaluate student learning.
"Resist! Resist to your last breath!"
The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) is launching the new Foundations of Resistance to combat the appalling resurgence of antisemitism in the United States and the world. Foundations has been developed with the California Teacher's Collaborative on Holocaust and Genocide Education, led by the Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center of San Francisco.
Education is our greatest weapon in the fight against antisemitism. JPEF is providing our country’s most critical leaders—its teachers—with cutting-edge resources to fight the scourge of antisemitism where it matters most: in our schools. JPEF believes that teachers are the nation’s front line against this threat, and is here to support them.
JPEF recognizes that antisemitism mutates and will adapt Foundations in real-time to support the millions of teachers confronting this pernicious enemy. Foundations will reflect the latest research and best practices in the field, giving educators a powerful and innovative resource to combat antisemitism in their schools and communities.