Teacher Institute
The Teacher Institute, hosted annually by the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at UT Dallas, is a comprehensive exploration into teaching strategies for middle and high school educators. Bringing together experts in the field, this unique learning experience affords teachers the opportunity to gain innovative classroom tools and skills for teaching the Holocaust through the Humanities, English, Social Studies, History, and Geography, as well as providing an opportunity to interface with area educators who are currently implementing these strategies with their students.
The Teacher Institute offers continuing education credit, which is provided to educators in the greater Dallas area free of charge thanks to a generous endowment to the Ackerman Center.
Past Institutes
June 25, 2025
Reflections of Evil: Approaches to Holocaust Education
June 25, 2024
Representing Evil – The Holocaust, Nuremberg, and Nathan-Ism
June 22, 2023
Antisemitism and the Homefront with Professor Laurel Leff
June 27, 2022
An Opus of Remembrance: Voices of Resistance and Diaries of the Holocaust (pdf)
June 23-24, 2021
On the Brink: Saving Jews during the Holocaust
June 24, 2020
Nameless Victims, Silenced Voices: A Profile of Victims of the Euthanasia Program (pdf)
June 26-27, 2019
Teaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century: The Power of Representation (pdf)
June 26-27, 2018
Winning the War: America, Foreign Policy, and the Holocaust (pdf)
June 29-30, 2017
From Weimar to Nuremberg: Law and the Holocaust (pdf)
June 29-30, 2016
Accessories to Murder: Collaboration and Theft During the Holocaust (pdf)
July 29-30, 2015
The Holocaust and Death of a Culture (pdf)
July 30-31, 2014
The Holocaust and World War II (pdf)
June 26-27, 2013
America – In the Shadow of the Holocaust (pdf)