Rho Kappa students attend Genocide Education Conference

On Tuesday November 7, North Middlesex hosted a Genocide Education Conference professional development day for state educators. The goal of the conference was to provide direction on how to approach and teach about genocide in the classroom.

Speakers from all over the Northeast came to present to the educators in attendance on a variety of subjects including how gender affects genocide, genocide rooted literature, genocide as an international crime, and more.

Conference Director, and NMRHS Social Studies Department Chair Rebecca Jackson graciously invited the students of the newly formed Rho Kappa National Social Studies Honor Society to attend for the keynote speaker, Janet Applefield.

Applefield was just a teenager during the outbreak of World War II with the German-Russian Invasion of Poland. She shared her story on how to she survived the holocaust, and managed started a new life in the United States after the end of the war.

Jackson iterates it is the goal of the Rho Kappa NSSHS to take part in more events, in order to expand student awareness and global thinking in the age we move into tomorrow.