Project Description

The NCDPI K-12 Social Studies team is collaborating with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in a pilot project designed specifically for North Carolina. The project will be named the North Carolina History Unfolded Fellows Project. Three organizations will partner with the NCDPI by lending professional expertise for the planning, delivery, and support of this project:

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Mr. David Klevan the Education Outreach Specialist for Education Initiatives
The North Carolina Council on the Holocaust - Mr. Lee Holder the Traveling Exhibit Coordinator for Eastern NC
The North Carolina State Archives - Ms. Brooke Csuka, Outreach Archivist

The teachers selected as fellows for this project will go through the History Unfolded Program’s training with staff from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They will also receive training from North Carolina State Archives experts. The training will prepare and equip each teacher fellow to be able to develop a comprehensive lesson plan that can be used by teachers teaching Grade Eight N.C. Social Studies, American History, or Civic Literacy.

The desired outcome of this project is to develop a repository of NC news stories and classroom instructional materials for teaching Holocaust topics using newspaper stories from the era. This project hopes to strengthen the primary sources available to teachers seeking to teach North Carolina state and local stories connected to the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors and refugees, from 1933 to 1946.

Project Participants

Project Dates

Project Fellowship

The teachers selected to participate in this project will be NC History Unfolded Fellows and will receive a $1,000 fellowship. The project will be made up of 16 teachers; 2 from each of the NC State Board of Education Regions. The desired participant makeup is to have:

14 eighth-grade teachers

2 teachers who teach American History and/or Civic Literacy (1 American teacher from the East and 1 from the West)

All applications for participation in this project MUST be submitted via the electronic application linked below, by April 21.

The NC History Unfolded Project will take place the week of June 12-15.

All work required by the project MUST be submitted for final approval on or before June 30.

There is NO COST to apply to be a part of the NC History Unfolded Project.

The 16 teachers selected as NC History Unfolded Fellows will, however, receive a small travel stipend prior to the week-long training and work session. This stipend will be for participant travel, lodging, and meals. Upon completion of all project deliverables, by the required date, and final approval by both NCDPI and the USHMM, participant fellows will be paid $1,000 for their completed and approved work submissions.

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Application Deadline - April 21