EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 11, Issue 1 for January 18, 2024
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: Disability History in State Standards and Mandates - and Other Tools
Working Together to Advance Inclusion of Disabilty History in the Curriculum:
January Blog Post
January 30 Webinar
Courses & Workshops at Emerging America - Info & Registration.
Syllabi available at link above. Questions? Contact rcairn@collaborative.org or anoyes@collaborative.org.
PDPs / or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.
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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.
Webinars and Conference Sessions from Emerging America
See complete list of Upcoming Presentations, Past Recordings and more.
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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.
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Emerging America at the National Council for History Education
- March 7-9, 2024 - Cleveland - Register
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Breakout session:
- Teaching Stories of Disability History: Teachers, Veterans, and Citizens - Rich Cairn, Emerging America
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Posters:
- Reform to Equal Rights: Integrate Disability History into History Class - 1776-2024 - Rich Cairn, Emerging America
- Challenging Primary Sources and Inclusive Teaching: Lessons from Dialogue between History and ESL Teachers - Alison Noyes, Emerging America
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Empowerment through Disability History - Hosted by the Learning Disabilities Association of America.
- April 9, 2024 - 5-6pm Eastern Time - Free - Register
- Ross Newton, high school history teacher in Special Education, and Rich Cairn, author of Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum.
- Disability from after the American Revolution through the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and its impacts. Discuss why and how disability history can be integrated into school classrooms.
- For Special Education teachers and interested parents and advocates.
- April 9, 2024 - 5-6pm Eastern Time - Free - Register
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.
- MediaWise at Poynter.org engages students in its Teen Fact Checking Network.
- Get free help designing digital games using primary sources - 7 Generation Games.
- Pilot teaching materials from History UnErased on the Civil War - Contact Deb Fowler - debra@unerased.org.
- State Policy Menu from CivXNow - What can your state do?
- Call for Submissions for "On Shifting Ground: Migration, Disruption, and the Changing Contours of Home" - Journal of Folklore and Education - Fall 2024.
- Submit a workshop proposal for the Massachusetts History Alliance conference in June.
- What do you wish that you knew before your first day of teaching? Answer a quick survey for the University of Central Florida.
- March 11-15 - National Civic Learning Week.
- The next issue of History eNews is February 15. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by February 7.
New at the Library of Congress
What’s New?
- Apply Now! Summer 2024 Professional Development at the Library of Congress
- The Library of Congress partnered with StoryCorps to archive the Covid Experience.
- For your students: Apply for a 2024 High School Summer Internship at the Library of Congress!
TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with interest in working with primary sources are welcome to join this network. Featured this issue - (log in to see these Discussions):
- Want to make a game using LOC resources?
- Descendants of Black Civil War Heroes Wear Their Heritage With Pride
- The Complicated History of Native American and African American relations
- Teaching About a Place? Stop and Think First!
- Suffrage Maps
- A 1956 Textbook's View of Slavery: Another Simple Teaching Strategy
You may link directly to these resources.
- Album: Cultural Assimilation and Expression: Immigrant Experiences
- Album: Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Cartoonist Jackie Ormes
- Album: Searching for Peace
- YouTube tutorial video: Adding Images to Network Albums
Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
- Using Primary Sources to Spark Inquiry About Presidential Primaries
- 2024 Literacy Awards: New Prize Categories and a Call for Applications
- Child Labor: A New Primary Source Set for Teachers from the Library of Congress
- Teaching with Maps in the Classroom
- Using Maps of Historical Locations to Understand Historic Events
Disability History Resources & Updates
- Sign up to join the new bi-monthly, “Teaching Disability History Interest Group” of K-12 educators and activists. First meeting February 8, 2024.
- See our new FAQ page for Reform to Equal Rights.
- January 23 - Celebrate Ed Roberts Day - Ed Roberts and Associates.
- January 23 - Celebrate Ed Roberts Day - Youth Organizing! Disabled and Proud.
- March-September, 2024 - Caravan for Disability Justice and Freedom - People with disabilities and allies will cross America visiting many cities including sites important to our history.
- Recording - Gouvernor Morris and the History of Disability - Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS).
- Special Education: The 50-Year Fights for the Right to Learn. Video from Retro Report.
- Disability Rights in New York 1968-2017 - The Museum of the City of New York.
- Renegades: Kitty O’Neil - WETA digital series by musician and advocate Lachi on contributions of people with disabilities and how they transformed America.
- Centering Neurodiversity - Recommended Children’s and Young Adult Literature in the Dyslexia issue of Literacy Today - October-November, 2023 - International Literacy Association.
- “Census Bureau’s Proposed Changes Threaten To Undercount People With Disabilities” - Disability Scoop.
- “A Quarter Of Teens With Autism May Be Undiagnosed” - Disability Scoop.
- Disability Studies Quarterly Special Issue on Race and Disability.
- “Restraining Confinement in Early America.” Wulf Scouller. All of Us, blog of the Disability History Association.
Other Events
Online unless noted. “Hybrid” events are both virtual and in-person.
- January 20 - 11:30am-2:30pm - Black Lives Matter at School Curriculum Fair - Teaching for Change.
- January 21 - 2pm - Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition - Gilder Lehrman Institute.
- Tuesdays 7pm starting January 23 - C3 Framework Inquiry Showcase Webinars - National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).
- January 23 - 11am - Researching Women and Gender at the Library: Finding Women’s, Gender, and LGBTQIA+ Perspectives - Library of Congress.
- January 23 - 7pm - Redlining, Racism, and Segregation in Detroit - National Council for History Education (NCHE).
- January 24 - 7:30pm - Exodus from Dixie: The Great Migration as a Social Movement - NCHE.
- January 24 - 6pm - hybrid - A History of Boston - Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS).
- January 25 - February 29 - Thursdays - 5:30-6:30 Free - Eastern Region Teaching with Primary Sources Leadership Institute.
- January 25, 1pm - webinar - To Infinity and Beyond: Resilience by Teenagers During the Holocaust - Echoes & Reflections.
- January 28 - 2-3pm - Quabbin Visitor Center - Secrets Beneath the Trees: Exploring the Quabbin’s Hidden Historical Landscape with Lidar.
- January 30 - 5pm - Deported Americans: US Citizens & the Expanding Global Deportation Regime During the Interwar Era - MHS.
- February 1 - May 9 - 4:30 - The Science of Building Knowledge webinar series - NCSS and inquirED.
- February 6 - 5pm - The Social World of Revolutionary New England - MHS.
- February 8 - 5pm - The Rise & Fall of Low-Cost Birth Control Clinics During the Great Depression - MHS.
- February 8 - 7pm - Brooding Over Bloody Revenge - American Antiquarian Society.
- February 8 - 3pm - Made at the Library: "Ralph Ellison: Photographer" - Library of Congress.
- February 13 - 5pm - Farm, Factory, & Mine: Worcester Coal & the Role of Extractive Industries in Early 19th-Century New England - MHS.
- February 14 - Frederick Douglass Day - events and resources.
- February 19-20 - 9am - 2pm - Teacher Workshop: Perspectives on the Boston Massacre & the Legacy of Crispus Attucks - MHS.
- February 28 6:30-8:30pm - Washington, DC - The American Revolution in the Old Northwest - American Revolution Institute.
- February 28 - April 3 - in-person and virtual sessions - Project-Based Learning Course: Intro to National History Day - MHS.
- February 28 - 4-5:30pm - Integrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories: Curricular Points of Entry for US History - Teach Asian American Stories.
- March 7-9 - NCHE conference - Cleveland.
- March 12 - 5-7pm - Center for Educational Policy, UMass Amherst - Civic Summit: Should MA Drop the MCAS Graduation Requirement?
- March 13 - 4:30-6pm - A Brief Overview of Asian American History - Teach Asian American Stories.
- Spring Programs of the American Revolution Institute.
Summer 2024 - in-person
- Retro Report Civics Summer Institute.
- June & July - Professional Development seminars at the Library of Congress - four 3-day sessions.
- National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes - browse list of 44 in-person programs from 1-4 weeks - stipends.
- July 8-12 - Research Triangle, North Carolina - Art & Soul: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Black Music and Art in the Humanities Classroom - National Humanities Center.
- July 15-17 - NCSS Summer Institute at the National Archvies in DC.
- National Constitution Center - Philadelphia - sessions include 1st Amendment and Reconstruction.
- Pacific Crossings: Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories, 1870 to the Present - Gilder Lehrman - NEH workshop.
Other Resources
- Genocide Education Project
- Educator Voice: Teachers know how to teach hard history about Palestine - PBS.
- Fights Over American Democracy Reach Back to the Founding Era - video and lesson from Retro Report.
- Youth Stand Up - PBS.
- PBS NewsHour Classroom.
- Kids Making a Difference - Garden Edition - DBQuest from iCivics.
- Hidden Voices: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in United States History - free textbook - Museum of the City of New York.
- The Vietnam War: Origins, History, and Legacies - new unit from the Choices Program.
- Media Literacy Resources - Learning for Justice.
New Blog Post:
Blog Preview: Disability History in State Standards and Mandates - and other new Tools at EmergingAmerica.org
By Rich Cairn, Emerging America
Emerging America added useful functions to our website. At the suggestion of friends at the #TeachDisabilityHistory campaign, we added an FAQ page to the Reform to Equal Rights curriculum. And we added search tools for the Teaching Resources page, which features 50 accessible teacher-written lessons, 37 media-rich primary source sets on a wide range of topics, and nearly 30 strategies and tools to aid design and implementation of inclusive instruction. Finally, we created a Learning Standards page to shape inclusive curriculum.
Continued…
Link to the full blog post
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