Anti-Defamation League Luncheon celebrates educators and 15th anniversary of No Place for Hate Initiative at May 4 luncheon

Celebrating dedicated educators and the 15^th Anniversary of the No Place for Hate Initiative will be the focus of the Anti-Defamation League Luncheon featuring Texas Children’s Hospital’s Dr. Jennifer Arnold, M.D. of The Learning Channel’s, The Little Couple.   

The luncheon will be held on May 4 at 12 noon at the Hilton Houston Post Oak with individual tickets priced at $200 and tables starting at $2,500. Table purchases are for 10 seats and includes one ticket to Meet & Greet with Arnold. The event is open to the public. More details are available at http://houston.adl.org/event/2016-npfhluncheon.

2016 is a special year for the ADL’s No Place for Hate® Initiative. This year marks the 15th year of the No Place for Hate® Initiative, the region’s signature education initiative, which empowers schools to promote respect for individual and group differences while challenging prejudice and bigotry.

Hundreds of schools that have achieved a No Place for Hate® designation, especially Hunters Creek Elementary School in Spring Branch ISD, Johnston Middle School in Houston ISD, and the Kinkaid Middle School for receiving the designation each year since the program began.

The ADL operates banner programs, such as No Place for Hate®, to fight hatred and encourage diversity in schools K-12.

It also will honor three educators with the Walter Kase Teacher Excellence Award for their outstanding efforts to create a school atmosphere that promotes respect for and understanding of diversity.  Honorees included Klein ISD Superintendent Dr. James W. Cain, Kenneth E. Little Elementary School Counselor Yvonne DeLeon, and The Kinkaid Lower School Counselor Dr. Nancy Simpson.

The Teacher Excellence Award is named in memory of Walter Kase, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who dedicated a quarter century of his life to telling students his personal story of surviving five camps and what that taught him about the dangers of prejudice and the importance of love and respect.

For more information on ADL and their No Place for Hate Initiative, go to http://houston.adl.org/noplaceforhate.