(3) “Holocaust” means, as described by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6,000,000 European Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and
collaborators.
(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, under the department’s direction, shall consist of leading genocide and Holocaust education organizations and institutions, genocide survivors, and community leaders.
(d) The collaborative’s mission is to ensure that genocide, including Holocaust, education is taught to fidelity in California schools as part of the required social studies curriculum, with the content of this education being aligned with
the academic standards and included 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 the genocides of the Armenian, Bosnian, Cambodian, Guatemalan, Indigenous American, Rwandan, and Uyghur peoples, the collaborative shall focus on education to identify and confront anti-Semitism and hate in modern society.
(f) The duties of the collaborative shall include, but are not
limited to, all of the following:
(1) Distributing grants to the collaborative’s 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 pupils in any of grades 6 to 12, inclusive, and increasing the use of high-quality resources, in school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools.
(5) Evaluating the implementation and administration of this section annually to assess the degree to which teachers’ efficacy on teaching about genocide, including the
Holocaust, has improved, and the mission of the collaborative, as described in subdivision (d), has been met.
(6) Providing, as determined by the department, annual verbal or written reports to the department and the Legislature, pursuant to Section 9795 of the Government Code, on the collaborative’s achievement of its mission, as described in subdivision (d).