MEET OUR CURRICULUM EXPERTS
Corey and John built the six-day lesson plans using their decades of teaching experience with genocide education.
COREY HARBAUGH
Corey is the Curriculum Director for Paw Paw Public Schools. He is an established leader in Holocaust education in Michigan, Corey collaborates and advises with organizations such as The Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI), the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the USC Shoah Foundation.
JOHN FARRIS
John is a Social Studies expert with extensive knowledge and experience of training teachers to master curriculum. Currently serving in that role for the Detroit Public Schools. Along with Corey, John consults, writes curriculum and leads trainings for organizations across Michigan and the United States.
A STRONG PARTNERSHIP
In 2016 Harbaugh & Farris helped in the effort to establish a Michigan Holocaust and Genocide education mandate, then served on the Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education, finally helping to develop and test instructional and teacher training resources for this website, MHGE.org.
The curriculum duo have been working together for decades to advance the need for genocide and Holocaust education locally, regionally and nationally. Together they founded the Holocaust Educator Network of Michigan, a TOLI regional satellite, and longtime co-director of the Third Coast Writing Project at Western Michigan University.
Farris and Harbaugh also consult with Michigan and national Holocaust and genocide organizations and agencies, providing teacher training on such topics as Responsible Teaching (Best Practices) of Traumatic History Education, Inquiry-based Teaching and Learning, Safely In, Safely Out Practices, and Balancing Context and Representation in Effective Holocaust and Genocide Education.
EDUCATION
JOHN FARRIS
University of Texas
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Advertising
University of Illinois at Chicago
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Teaching of History
COREY HARBAUGH
Kalamazoo College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Education
Western Michigan
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Educational Leadership and Administration
PUBLISHED
Corey Harbaugh’s chapter of original Holocaust education research (“Informed Pedagogy of the Holocaust: A Survey of Teachers Trained by Leading Holocaust Organisations in the United States”) was published in As the Witnesses Fall Silent: 21st Century Holocaust Education in Curriculum, Policy, and Practice (Springer, 2015), and his chapter "Instructional Crossroads: Where Teaching Meets Learning in Holocaust Education" was published in the book Becoming a Holocaust Educator: Purposeful Pedagogy Through Inquiry (Teachers College Press, 2022).
Outside of Holocaust education Harbaugh has published widely in small local and large national publications including works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. His essay “Truth and the Santa Claus Moment” was featured on National Public Radio’s This I Believe broadcast and is lead essay in the book This I Believe: On Fatherhood. (Josey-Bass, 2011).