April 10, 12-1pm Eastern - Accessible Teaching Materials in K-12 Classrooms - Panel: Kenya Loudd, children's book author; Emerging America's Rich Cairn, Ross Newton, Kate Benson & Graham Warder.
April 10, 1pm Eastern - Teaching and Researching Disability: A Workshop for Early Career Scholars of Anthropology and/of Disability
April 10, 4:30-6:30pm Eastern - Accessible conversations social. Register for social.
Free conference for teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant.
Free conference for teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant.
$100 stipends for teachers and for disability advocates. Lunch provided.
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The gravestone of Metropolitan State Hosptial Asylum inmate Minnie Phair at the MetFern Cemetery in Waltham, Massachusetts, marked P (for “Protestant”) 74 (the 74th Protestant burial in the cemetery). Phair died in 1959 after spending more than four decades in asylums. (Un)Hidden.
Civics and Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction Specialist, Collaborative for Educational Services
Rich Cairn founded Emerging America in 2006, which features the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program at the Collaborative for Educational Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History program, "Forge of Innovation: The Springfield Armory and the Genesis of American Industry." The Accessing Inquiry clearinghouse, supported by the Library of Congress TPS program promotes full inclusion of students with disabilities and English Learners in civics and social studies education.
