The Tennessee Holocaust Commission (THC) announced last week that DeKalb Middle School teacher Anita Puckett is among the winners of the 2013 Belz-Lipman Holocaust Educator Award.
Puckett, who teaches eighth-grade Reading/History, will get a $1,500 scholarship which can be used to develop new curriculum, purchase resources and attend training that will help further engage her students in the study of the Holocaust.
The award ceremony will take place on April 8  at 3 p.m. in Legislative Plaza in room LP12, as part of The Tennessee Holocaust Commission's Annual Day of Remembrance Holocaust Commemoration.
The commemoration is free and open to the public.
Each year, three educators are chosen, one each from East, West and Middle Tennessee, to receive a financial award to develop new curriculum, purchase resources or attend trainings to help engage their students in the study of the Holocaust.
The award is open to teachers in the state of Tennessee with at least two years of experience teaching the Holocaust in the classroom.
The winners of the Belz-Lipman Holocaust Educator Award are announced each year at the annual Day of Remembrance Ceremony.
The (THC) has sponsored the Belz-Lipman Holocaust Educator Award since 1995.
Established by Memphis entrepreneurs and philanthropists Jack A. Belz and Ira Lipman, the award recognizes outstanding educators who excel in the teaching of the Holocaust.
Each year educators from East, West and Middle Tennessee are honored.
Distinguished recipients of the award have attended international conferences on Holocaust education, served as teacher-fellows to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and served as educational liaisons for the THC.