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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…
In this insightful article, Newhouse explores practical approaches and resources to integrating disability history into teaching about:
The U.S. Civil War Immigration Eugenics in the Progressive Era Civics Education HistoryShe interviews teachers who have taught lessons from the Reform to…
Leah M. Bueso, University of Illinois Springfield, and Rich Cairn, Emerging America published a groundbreaking foundation and guide to organizing student-led civic engagement projects that are fully accessible to and inclusive of students with disabilities and all learners. The chapter entitled Developing the Civic Engagement of Students with Disabilities: Inclusive Civic Action Projects examin…
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