Infusing Disability History into the Classroom
Published on Wed, 10/02/2024
Emerging America's Inclusive History News - October 2024
Published on Wed, 10/02/2024
Inclusive History News
In this Issue:
October Featured Blog Post: Infusing Disability History into the Classroom by Rich Cairn & Graham Warder
- News of the Field
- Disability History News & Resources
- Events @ Emerging America
- Other Professional Development Events
- New Teaching Resources
- New at the Library of Congress
Emerging America's Inclusive History News - September 2024
Published on Fri, 08/30/2024
Emerging America History eNews is now: Inclusive History News
Committed to Access and Inclusion of All Learners in Civics, History and Social Studies
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.
5 Ways to Teach Disability History in Social Studies Class
Published on Wed, 08/21/2024
5 Ways to Teach Disability History in Social Studies Class
Kara Newhouse - KQED - Mind/Shift
In this insightful article, Newhouse explores practical approaches and resources to integrating disability history into teaching about:
Choices Program: Disability Histories Now
Published on Tue, 05/21/2024
Guest post by Max Chervin Bridge
Teach Disability History Using Court Cases
Published on Thu, 01/25/2024
Post by Rich Cairn and Ross Newton
"Court cases are great for teaching history because they often deal with concrete details from everyday life."
- Ross Newton, High School History teacher, HEC Academy.
Reform to Equal Rights - Disability History Curriculum
The Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum includes 250 primary sources in 23 lessons in seven units. Inclusive lessons feature Universal Design for Learning strategies and exemplary assessments. Lesson content facilitates integration into many regular K-12 topics. Skill and language development addresses C-3 History and Social Science frameworks as well as Educating for American Democracy Roadmap themes. Developed with Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant with additional support from Mass Humanities.
ESL examples: Daily Life in Colonial Massachusetts through Primary Sources (3rd Grade)
Exploring timelines, reading dates aloud and constructing their own personal timeline helps multilingual learners to connect lives of colonial people of Massachusetts to their own life and identity.
ESL examples: Is it ever ok to break a law? (High School)
Although this series of lessons utilizes sources from the Civil Rights Movement, the topic of focus could be changed to better support student needs or to better align to your topics of study.
ESL examples: Can you always speak your mind freely in schools? (8th grade)
Throughout these lessons, multilingual learners will develop the language necessary for success in the content area of social studies.