On Wednesday, August 5, the Legacy of Light Goldberg Institute for Holocaust Education presented the Spark Interactive mobile classroom and the Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibit to more than 1,000 teachers and administrators of the San Dieguito Union High School District, gathered at Torrey Pines High School for the district's annual staff inservice day. The purpose was to place both Holocaust education resources in front of the educators so they could understand the curriculum, interact with it before their students will, and give educators the opportunity to book a visit before all available slots are filled.
Faculty and administrators from across the district spent the day in trainings, curriculum preparation sessions, and previews of the experiential academic offerings available to their classrooms this year.
Reaching an entire district's teaching staff in one location, in just one day, is a rare opportunity. It is also efficient in a way that matters: a single morning of educator engagement translates into instructional decisions across dozens of campuses, hundreds of classrooms, and thousands of students.
Hundreds of teachers stepped inside Spark Interactive for the first time. The state-of-the-art mobile classroom is set to travel to schools across San Diego County at no cost to the school, bringing survivor testimony, primary sources, and interactive technology directly to students.
For most of the educators who walked through on August 5, this was their introduction. They moved through the exhibit as their students will, then asked the questions teachers ask: how the experience fits a tenth-grade world history unit, how it pairs with the literature already on the syllabus, how much class time it requires, and what preparation students need beforehand. The full Spark Interactive team was onsite to answer them and walk them through how it ties into class curricula.
The Anne Frank: A History for Today traveling exhibit stood alongside Spark Interactive, staffed by two trainers and three docents who guided educators through the panels and explained how the docent model functions when the traveling museum comes to a campus. Students trained as docents lead their own peers through the material. Teachers saw firsthand what that preparation involves and how the exhibit can anchor a broader unit on prejudice, exclusion, and moral courage.
Presented together, the two offerings gave educators a view of the full range of programming available to them, from a self-contained immersive experience to a longer-form exhibit that a school hosts and its own students help lead.
The Spark Interactive school calendar is nearly full for the 2026 to 2027 academic year. Schools and districts interested in hosting Spark Interactive or the Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibit should move quickly and contact the LLGI team to book their experience while there is still availability.