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Carrie A. Olson - Executive Director
Carrie A. Olson is a 6th-8th grade teacher at Kepner Middle School (KMS) in Denver, Colorado who has been teaching in Denver Public Schools since 1985.
Currently, she teaches electives for students who want to participate in academic travel to Washington, DC, and Europe, and a Literacy Skills class at each grade level for students who need to improve their reading and writing skills.
She is a trained Ruby Payne presenter, coordinates staff development at her school and provides in-service training on "A Framework for Understanding Poverty."
In her classes she teaches the Holocaust to students who otherwise would not receive this education.
Carrie is a member of the National Holocaust Education Consortium, a volunteer at the Holocaust Awareness Institute at the University of Denver, and a graduate of the 1994 Yad Vashem Summer Institute for Educators from Abroad, participates in the American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters' Museum International Book-Sharing Project and is a Museum Emissary, mentoring others in running the Book-Sharing Project.
Carrie is a recipient of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Teacher Fellowship Program for 2006-2007 and is on the planning team for the Belfer NextStep Conferences.
She also is a contributing author in the book The Call of Memory.
Carrie is the founder and executive director of the Kepner Educational Excellence Program (KEEP), a nonprofit organization that assists in funding students' academic journeys to Washington, DC and Europe as well as providing significant other support at KMS including funding the KEEP Work Program for students taking the academic travel electives, providing Mini-Grants for use by the school staff and supporting a specialized professional development program for the faculty.
Carrie received her BA from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa in Elementary Education and Spanish.
Her Master's is in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Colorado at Denver where she was awarded a scholarship from the United States Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs.
She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Denver in Curriculum and Instruction where she is also pursuing a certificate of Judaic Studies.
She is a National Board Certified Teacher as a Middle Childhood Generalist.
Carrie is fluent in Spanish and has studied in Sevilla and Madrid, Spain.
She was a recipient of the King Juan Carlos Fellowship to study post-graduate Spanish at the Universidad Cumpletense in Madrid, Spain in 1991.
She co-translated a Holocaust curriculum entitled, Sin Salida (No Way Out) by Susan Sheer.
Carrie is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2005 Excellence in Education award from the Holocaust Awareness Institute at the University of Denver; the 2000 "7Everyday Heroes Award" by Channel 7, Denver, Colorado; and the 1998 "Remember for Tomorrow Alliance" Humanitarian Lifetime Service Award sponsored by the Colorado Symphony, Denver Art, Culture, and Film Foundation, and the Holocaust Awareness Institute at the University of Denver, Colorado; and the Human Relations Award from the Beth Joseph Congregation in 1994, Denver, Colorado.
Most recently, on November 22nd, 2008 she was named one of Denver's 150 - a special honor recognizing ordinary citizens who are making extraordinary contributions to the Mile High City.
Carrie lives with her husband Wayne, her daughter Ekaterina and her Labrador in Denver, CO and rides horses whenever she can at Helicon Show Stables, where she works with the summer camp program, in Parker, Colorado.
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