Norma Johnson

Norma Johnson has been teaching a two-year American Studies course at the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland for over twenty years. She has also taught elective courses in Government, Street Law, Contemporary Issues, and Holocaust and Human Behavior. Norma is a professional development junkie and is grateful to have been selected to participate in extraordinary learning opportunities that have enriched her classroom. Some of her recent favorites include studying the “Age of Lincoln” in Oxford, England and “9-11 and American Memory” in New York through the Gilder Lehrman Institute, examining the ”Holocaust and Jim Crow” in Jackson, Mississippi with the TOLI Institute, traveling through Germany as a Transatlantic Outreach Program (TOP) fellow with the Goethe-Insitut USA, and exploring landmark federal cases at the Federal Judicial Center’s Summer Institute. Norma is currently working with Facing History on the completion of a grant-funded learning initiative on Holocaust memory and serving on the Teacher Advisory Board of the National Constitution Center. When she has free time, Norma loves to return to her familial roots in Nebraska and Minnesota or travel anywhere the road (or sky) will take her.