GenEd Staff and Teacher Fellows Providing Workshops Across the U.S.

GenEd Teacher Fellows meet with board and staff members to discuss Artsakh


The 2023 GenEd Teacher Fellows, representing 14 U.S. states, returned from the 10-day intensive training program in Armenia prepared to share their knowledge about the Armenian Genocide, including the recent genocide in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh), with their students and colleagues.

Having received foundational education about Artsakh and meeting Armenians directly affected by the crisis during their summer 2023 trip to Armenia, the GenEd Teacher Fellows have been following the recent news and finding ways to incorporate it into their curriculum and workshop presentations. GenEd has been in frequent contact with both the 2023 and the inaugural 2022 program fellows over recent weeks, providing context and clarification and discussing strategies for highlighting these events in their coursework and upcoming workshops.

The GenEd Teacher Fellows have been creating new lesson plans, and they’ve been providing and planning professional development presentations in various settings—in their schools’ social studies departments, to genocide education organizations, graduate schools of education, community gatherings, and at social studies and geography teacher conferences in Michigan, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, and California.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS