Roald Dahl's Miss Honey Social Justice Award
About the Roald Dahl's Miss Honey Social Justice Award
Roald Dahl’s Miss Honey Social Justice Award recognizes and encourages collaboration and partnerships between school librarians and teachers in teaching social justice through joint planning of a program, unit or event in support of social justice using school library resources. The award is to acknowledge teaching by school librarians and the use of school library resources to convey a child’s sense of justice as exemplified by many of the characters in the works of Roald Dahl. The Roald Dahl’s Miss Honey Social Justice Award recognizes AASL members who have collaboratively designed a lesson, event, or course of study on social justice.
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2015 Recipient(s)
Teaching Tolerance and Building Empathy through Holocaust and Genocide Education
School Librarian Angela Hartman from Hutto High School in Hutto, Texas.
Angela Hartman started her award winning project, Teaching Tolerance and Building Empathy through Holocaust and Genocide Education, as a way to teach students at Hutto High School that genocide continues to occur in the world and that it is up to all to stand up to injustice. Hartman worked collaboratively with 11th grade English teachers to teach the students about the Holocaust using in-person survivor testimony, first-hand artifacts and primary source material from the school’s online subscription database and library book collection. Hartman also worked with the school’s art teacher to create a lesson based on Auschwitz called Art in the Face of Death. The project culminated in in an International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony hosted by the high school. Students’ art was displayed at the ceremony and Holocaust survivor, Max Glauben, spoke to the crowd of over 700 people.
