California Education Code § 51221.1

(a) As used in this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Collaborative” means the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education. (2) “Genocide” means, as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group: (A) Killing members of the group. (B) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. (C) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about, in whole or in part, its physical destruction. (D) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. (E) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (3) “Holocaust,” as described by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6,000,000 European Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators; the Nazis also targeted other groups for persecution and murder, including Roma, people with disabilities, some Slavic peoples, especially Poles and Russians, Black people, communists, socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay men, and people the Nazis called “asocials” and “professional criminals.” (b) The California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education is hereby established. The collaborative shall be responsible for establishing a statewide teacher professional development program on genocide, including the Holocaust, for school district, county office of education, and charter school teachers. (c) The collaborative shall consist of leading genocide and Holocaust education organizations and institutions, genocide survivors, educators, and community leaders. (d) The collaborative’s mission is to ensure that genocide, including Holocaust, education is taught consistent with the current content standards, curriculum frameworks, and instructional materials adopted by the state board, and any other requirements of this code, including, but not limited to, Sections 51204.5 and 60040, in ways that are interdisciplinary and age-appropriate to pupils of different grade levels. (e) In addition to focusing on education regarding the Holocaust and other genocides, including, but not limited to, those of the Armenian, Bosnian, Cambodian, Guatemalan, Indigenous American, Rwandan, and Uyghur peoples, the collaborative shall focus on education to identify and confront antisemitism and hate in modern society. (f) The duties of the collaborative shall include, but are not limited to, both of the following: (1) Developing and providing curriculum resources on genocide and Holocaust education. (2) Providing a statewide teacher professional development program on genocide and Holocaust education. (g) Subject to available funding, the collaborative duties may include all of the following: (1) Distributing grants to genocide and Holocaust education organizations and institutions to provide teacher training programs, and developing innovative academic standards-based curricula and digital tools, consistent with the purposes of this section. (2) Creating a robust digital library of lesson plans and resources on genocide, including Holocaust, education that align with the academic standards, distributing these lesson plans to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools statewide, and supporting teachers with the successful implementation of the lesson plans through workshops, conferences, and digital tools. (3) Organizing statewide and regional workshops, and providing participating teachers with transportation and accommodation. (4) Launching and maintaining an internet website that serves as a central hub for sharing the latest educational resources, including curricula and other materials, and best practices on genocide education to provide access to all California teachers of pupi

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