EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 10, Issue 9 for December 21, 2023
In this Issue
- Events @ Emerging America
- News
- New at the Library of Congress
- Disability History Resources & Updates
- Other Professional Development Events
- Other Resources
- Blog post preview: Framework for Inclusion: Physical, Pedagogical, and Narrative Accessibility.
Accessing Inquiry: Spring 2024 workshops-courses
Framework for Inclusion blog post
Accessing Inquiry is professional development designed for social studies teachers on inclusion of students with disabilities.
Events @ Emerging America - Info & Registration.
Mark your calendars for these Emerging America courses and workshops. Contact rcairn@collaborative.org or anoyes@collaborative.org.
Graduate Courses - Online
PDPs / or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.
Scholarships for Winter Courses - Registration fees of $50 and $100
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Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources - Northampton, MA (in person)
- March 16 & 30, 2024 two-day workshop in Northampton. PDPs or optional grad credit.
- Register for workshop on teaching Students with Disabilities - in-person.
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, teacher HEC Academy.
- Strategies and tools for inclusion, with new, free K-12 Disability History curriculum.
- Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) grant.
- Further details on Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities.
- Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.
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Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources - (online)
- April 6 - May 17, 2024. PDPs or optional grad credit.
- Register for workshop on teaching Students with Disabilities - online.
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, teacher HEC Academy.
- Strategies and tools for inclusion, with new, free K-12 Disability History curriculum.
- Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region mini-grant.
- Further details on Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities.
- Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.
Presentations and Recordings from Emerging America
Upcoming Presentations and Past Recordings from Emerging America: See complete list of short webinars, poster presentations, and more.
Mark your calendar:
- Empowering Students with Disability History: A Workshop for Special Education Professionals
- January 30, 2024 5:00-6:00pm (Eastern Time)
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, HEC Academy
- This FREE workshop will support increased attention to disability across the K-12 academic curriculum, by providing basic historical knowledge, free curriculum materials, and strategies for collaboration with elementary teachers and Social Studies and English Language Arts teachers across grades.
- Registration.
News
- Leadership Opportunity - Massachusetts Pre-K-5 Teachers - Help develop Civic Learning Pathways for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - Professional development design info and application.
- The Educator's Handbook for Teaching With Primary Sources - Scott Waring, editor - Teachers College Press.
- Submit document-based question and/or text-dependent question methods to support multilingual/English learners to the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies to Projects@MassCouncil.org by January 15.
- Apply to present at the National Council of Teachers of English conference - November 21-24 - Boston.
- Apply to present at the National Council for the Social Studies conference - November 22-24 - Boston.
- NCSS position statement on plans to deny free public education to undocumented children.
- Celebrating ten years of the Emerging America History eNews! Circulation today is 3,300+. Special thanks to the team: Martha Maloney, Alison Noyes, and former editor, Karen Albano, who have made this rich journey possible.
- The next issue of History eNews is January 18. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by January 10.
- Announcing a new bi-monthly, “Teaching Disability History Interest Group” - educators and activists at local, state, and national levels. Topics: state mandates and programs, exemplary standards, disability in Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, grassroots campaigns, and more! To join, email rcairn@collaborative.org.
New at the Library of Congress
- Apply Now! Summer 2024 Professional Development at the Library of Congress
- What’s the History of my Hometown? Activities & Collections to Explore.
- Help Transcribe Collections: Leonard Bernstein, Clara Barton
- Self-paced professional development modules on analyzing primary sources.
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Light and Shadow. Udo Keppler in Puck. (1909). Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/resource/ See “Analyzing an Environmental Cartoon Using the Zoom-Out Strategy” in the TPS Teachers Network. |
TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with interest in working with primary sources are welcome to join this network. Featured this issue - (log in to see Discussions; no log-in needed for Albums):
- Discussions:
- Diffit for differentiating - Using AI for leveled texts, organizers and more
- Analyzing an Environmental Cartoon Using the Zoom-Out Strategy
- November 2023 TPS Consortium Update
- Reviving Indigenous Language in the Classroom
- Internet History and Digital Life Trends of the Future
- Oculi Mundi - Great new online collection
- Calling All Maps and Geography Group Members
- The Five Civilized Tribes--Why civilized was more of an understatement than a compliment
- ...yet I am deeply rooted here, and I would be fruitful - primary sources of Kahlil Gibran's encouragement to young immigrants
- Albums - no log-in required:
- Album: Heaven forbid men would have to do housework!
- Album: Critical Evaluation Exercise: A Token Gallery Walk with Ansel Adams
- Album: Sandra Day O’Connor
- Album: Changing Perceptions of Black People One Photograph at a time...the work of WEB DuBois
- Album: Library Archives to Lesson Plans - A Cultural Exploration of STEM Education
- Album: How Mr. Silver Stole the Show (a cat)
- Album: Participation - Investigating Environmentalism with Primary Sources
- Album: Propaganda and Americanization
Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
- Tracing General Sherman’s March to the Sea
- Explore the History of Your Family and Community
- Resources from the Library of Congress for Teaching English and Language Arts
- 2023 Literacy Awards Winners and Honorees Gathered at the Library of Congress
- What Atlases Can Reveal about the Great Migration
Disability History Resources & Updates
#TeachDisabilityHistory poster.
Easterseals Massachusetts - with a TPS Eastern Region grant.
#TeachDisabilityHistory campaign website.
- The National Park Service Disability History Handbook: Collaboration, process, and community - National Council on Public History.
- “The Object of History” - podcast on Disability History from the Massachusetts Historical Society.
- Friends of Disability History & Culture email sign-up - Disability Social History Project.
- Civil War Soldiers: "Disabled but not disheartened" - Left-Handed Penmanship Contest - William Oland Bourne Papers - Library of Congress.
- Disability History in the 19th and 20th Centuries podcast - MA Historical Society.
- Disability & Blackness: The Role of the Black Panthers in the Disability Rights Movement video and transcript - Othering & Belonging Institute - UC Berkeley.
- Making Classroom Participation More Equitable With Hand Gestures - Edutopia.
- Primary Source Sets from the Minnesota Historical Society - with culturally relevant pedagogy considerations:
- “No Distinction Would Be Tolerated”: Thaddeus Stevens, Disability, and the Original Intent of the Equal Protection Clause - Yale Law & Policy Review.
- “After Tackling ‘R-Word,’ Disability Group Seeks To Erase Stigma Associated With ‘Special’” - Disability Scoop
- Join the Disability History Association! Check out the blog, podcast, and more.
Other Events
Online unless noted. “Hybrid” events are both virtual and in-person.
- January 4-10 - San Francisco - annual meeting - American Historical Association.
- January 10 - 7pm - webinar: The War of 1812: America’s Second War for Independence - National Council for History Education (NCHE).
- January 20 - Orlando - SOURCES Annual Conference - University of Central Florida.
- January 24 - 7:30pm - webinar: Exodus from Dixie: The Great Migration as a Social Movement (NCHE).
- February 20-22 - Orlando - Conference - Learning Disabilities Association of America.
- March 7-9 - NCHE conference - Cleveland.
- April 3-6 - in-person - Northampton, MA - Teach authentically on the histories of race and resistance with media-rich curriculum - Self-Evident Education Teacher Fellowship: Working with Primary Sources. Apply for fellowship.
Summer 2024 - All are in-person unless noted
- Library of Congress onsite workshops - June-July.
- July 7-12 - Civil War Washington - Ford's Theater.
- July 21-26 - Set in Stone: Civil War Memory, Monuments and Myths - Ford’s Theater.
- June 24-28 - American Bar Association Summer Institutes - Washington DC.
- Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge - The many topics include Reconstruction, Civil War, Immigration, & WWI.
- George Washington Teacher Institutes - Multiple sessions - Mount Vernon.
- Gilder Lehrman summer seminars.
- National Council for Geographic Education - adventures in Iceland or the Amazon.
Other Resources
- Advancing News Literacy - FAQs - News Literacy Project.
- When Art Fuels Anger, Who Should Prevail? - Retro Report.
- Black Veterans Killed in Fight for Democracy in U.S. - Zinn Education Project.
- Teaching the Civil Rights Movement curriculum from Learning for Justice.
- The Advocates for Human Rights.
- AFT Human Rights Resources.
- Actively Engaged: Using Theater Games as a Dynamic Teaching Tool by Priscilla Kane Hellweg, founder of Enchanted Circle Theater.
- Time Out of Joint: Prison Reflections on Shakespeare - Film.
- TeachRock - Using music to teach history.
- Access LGBTQ+ Annotated Resource Sets from Colorado teachers.
- City Lore - Arts and education.
- Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online - new book by SHEG’s Sam Wineburg.
- Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do - Learning for Justice.
Blog Preview: Framework for Inclusion: Physical, Pedagogical, and Narrative Accessibility
By Rich Cairn, Emerging America
Emerging America and the Learning Disabilities Association of America collaborated to publish the Disability History Civics and History Extension to the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap. In this new blog post, co-author Rich Cairn outlines a comprehensive approach to inclusion of students with disabilities–and indeed all learners.
The article defines Physical Accessibility, Pedagogical Accessibility, and Narrative Accessibility, and provides links for extensive further resources.
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