"Whose Independence?" 5th grade lesson features reflections of the U.S. Declaration, including the 1989 Disabled People's Bill of Rights & Declaration of Independence - Cheryl Anne Amendola - National Middle Level Social Studies Teacher of the Year 2023. Link to slides from the lesso…
December Featured Blog Post: The Movement to Teach Disability History Comes Together - includes The Need Remains: 2024 Teacher Survey Results
Through the years, I have attend many uplifting annual conferences of the National Council for the Social Studies. Yet the November 22-24, 2024 conference set a new high for new energy and focus on teaching disability history. Interest in workshops and posters on disability history attracted strong participation. And my walk through th…
Find up to date program details on teaching disability history on this page.
Keene State College (KSC) is pleased to announce a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) grant for a project to advance: Teaching Disability History in Rural Communities: Primary Source Investigations by ALL Learners. Awarded to KSC in September, the…
Scheduled workshops on disability history:
The team from the #TeachDisabilityHistory Easterseals and Emerging America – Desi Forte, Rich Cairn, and young adult disability activists – will co-present a workshop: How to integrate voices of people with disabilities into the curriculum. They will demonstrate activities and curriculum for s…
Disability History at the National Council for the Social Studies - Boston
News of the Field Disability History News & Resources Events @ Emerging America Other Professional Development Events Teaching Resources New at the Library of Congress
By Alice Levine
Many teachers share books and videos with their students about Civil Rights, especially near MLK’s birthday in January and during Black History Month in February or as part of units of study in ELA or Social Studies.
Since I grew up during a school desegregation struggle in New Jersey during the 1960’s, I began to wonder whether students are still learning about…
The Dublin series focuses…
Infusing Disability History into the Classroom by Rich Cairn & Graham Warder
Do you and your students know about the erased history of Jim Crow and Civil Rights Outside the South?
News of the Field
Disability History News & Resources Events @ Emerging America Other Pro…Created in response to teacher requests in 2013, the History eNews emailed monthly short descriptions and links of quality history and social studies events and resources. Now to make news more current and to ease production, items will appea…