History eNews from Emerging America - February 6, 2016

NEWS

• Feb. 8, 12:15-1:45pm - Shrewsbury HS - Central Mass Social Studies Supervisors - Contact Jennifer DiFrancesca @SHSSocialSci.

• Feb. 8, 3:30-5:00pm - CES - Western Mass Social Studies Dept. Chairs. Email rcairn@collaborative.org to say you’re coming and to get notices-minutes.

• State Civic Learning and Engagement Task Force met Feb. 2. Next meeting April 14. Timeline for new Social Studies Frameworks aims for spring 2018. Stay tuned!

• Western Mass Writing Project & Springfield Armory powerful partnership story. Sign up for FREE Winter Library of Congress TPS at CES course with Western Mass Writing Project here.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Teaching with Primary Sources @ the Collaborative

• Using Primary Texts to Promote Inquiry & Enrich the Learning Experience

A joint project of the Western Mass Writing Project & Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program (TPS) of the Collaborative for Educational Services

FREE! – Thanks to the Library of Congress TPS program! Earn grad credit.

Register & details.

• February 27 - 8:30am-4:00pm - UMass Amherst

• March 8 & March 29 - 4:00-7:00pm - Holyoke Public Library.

• April 4-6 Northeast Regional Conference for the Social Studies. (Register with NERC). TPS workshop on multimedia primary sources, Monday April 4th. (Fee for good cause: MCSS!)

• May 7 & 14 - Landscape of Revolution - Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center. Register directly with Leventhal. Repeats 2015 successful workshop. John Hannigan on African American soldiers. Develop lesson for your classroom!

RESOURCES @ THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - http://LoC.Gov/teachers

• Library of Congress new oral histories from 9-11 join September 9-11, 2001 collection.

Library of Congress Blogs:

Happy Valentine’s Day! How Dandy was Candy? Messages in Candy and Chocolate Ads blog post

• Immigration resources. From the History Day Theme Book. More info here.

RECOMMENDED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

• Feb. 9, 4pm - Book Launch & Reception The Slave’s Cause Manisha Sinha, UMass Amherst.

• Feb. 9, 4:30pm - Civil Rights Webinar - Teaching Tolerance.

• Sat., Feb. 13, 11:00am - Dams of the CT River - Holyoke Public Library.

• Feb 24, April 7, May 11, 4-5:15pm: Primary Source Webinars: Global Action for Social Justice.

• March 4 - Free conversation and Q&A on History Communication in the 21st Century. 7-8:30pm at UMASS, RSVP here.

• March 16 - 7:00pm - Early American Furniture - Flynt Museum, Old Deerfield.

• March 5 & 19 - Power of Maps workshop, Using online mapping tools with students grades 6-12, $75 to register, 22.5 PDPs offered, at Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.

• History Camp Boston – March 26 - Harriet Tubman House, Boston - History Unconference. register now.

• Boston Writing Project Institute on Writing and History - July 11-15, Mass Historical Society Archives and UMass Boston.

FREE-STIPENDED SUMMER 2016 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

July 24-29 - The Lincoln Assassination and its Legacy, Free program for qualifying teachers, Ford’s Theater, Apply here by April 4th.

• June 23-27 2016 New Orleans; 2017 Hawaii! War in Pacific. WWII Museum. Due 02/15.

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Subscribe to the Pioneer Valley History Network newsletter. See their calendar.

• Pew Foundation immigration data – projected changes 2015 to 2065.

• Awesome Stories – Free multimedia resources. More info here.

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