Greg Kocourek

Greg Kocourek is a graduate of Illinois State University and has been studying the Holocaust, genocide and human rights since his work on these topics during his undergraduate studies. Kocourek has shown a consistent commitment to excellent teaching in social studies and in genocide studies in particular, since beginning his teaching career in 2007. After completing a master’s degree in teaching and Learning at Illinois State University, Kocourek became a fellow of TOLI (The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights) in New York studying Holocaust related topics in a community of fellow educators and excellent mentor teachers. After creating content for C-SPAN Classroom concerning America's response to the Holocaust and interview sources during a fellowship in 2016, he was selected to serve at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a teacher fellow. During this fellowship a cohort of educators created projects and shared pedagogical practices to improve one another’s teaching and student’s learning. He is continuing to advocate for the best quality instruction for students to engage and consider this difficult history with the goal of creating more civically engaged, inclusive, and safe communities.