Coddington wins second national honor
Charles Wright history teacher Nick Coddington has won his second national award for excellence in holocaust education. In June he will travel to New York to receive the Spirit of Anne Frank Award. The prestigious award is given each year by the Anne Frank House USA.
The Spirit of Anne Frank Award recognizes educators “who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to combat discrimination, racism, and bias-related violence through involvement in programs offering conflict resolution, Holocaust education, violence prevention, and peer education models to engender understanding among diverse groups and promote social justice.”
Coddington was nominated for the award by the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center located in Seattle. Center Co-Executive Director, Laurie Warshal Cohen wrote in his nomination: “From the first time Nick contacted the Center when he began teaching at Charles Wright we were impressed by his passion and vision to use the Holocaust as a means of teaching his students the effects of intolerance, racism and discrimination in their lives.”
Last fall, Coddington was recognized as the nation’s top holocaust educator by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. He received the Robert I. Goldman Award, an award given annually to a teacher who demonstrates excellence and creativity in the field of Holocaust education.