The Anti-Defamation League is offering training on how to teach the Holocaust to Southern California teachers, starting next Friday.

The Los Angeles Holocaust Education Institute consists of three all-day sessions for teachers, including one Oct. 24, one Feb. 27 and one for Catholic school teachers Feb. 6.

The program includes museum-based instruction, curriculum and pedagogical training, and includes resources from the ADL, the Museum of Tolerance, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the USC Shoah Foundation and the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance.

This year’s program comes seven months after the news broke that Rialto Unified asked its eighth graders to complete an in-class assignment arguing whether the Holocaust occurred. Students were given printouts from three online “credible sources,” one of them a Holocaust denial site.

“The program, I think it’s the fourth year we’ve done it in this format. It’s been a successful program,” said ADL Associate Regional Director Matt Friedman, who coordinates the institute. “The impact of Rialto, it shows the need for this kind of program, even in Southern California.”

The program is typically attended by Southern California educators (the ADL offers similar programs elsewhere around the country) with people this year from Orange and San Diego Counties.

“I hope that Rialto Unified sends people,” Friedman said.

(Rialto Unified has been making its own internal efforts to train its teachers on how to properly teach the Holocaust and to repair the damage done by last year’s eighth grade English assignment.)

To help make attending the conference easier for teachers and their districts, the ADL is offering a limited pool of first-come, first-served $50 personal stipends for teachers and $150 substitute teacher reimbursements for their districts.

“We’re trying to make it as painless as possible for teachers and the districts that employ them,” Friedman said.

For more information or to register, visit adl.org or call 310-446-8000. Advance registration is required and space is limited.