Inclusive History News
In this Issue:
- News of the Field
- Disability History News & Resources
- Events @ Emerging America
- Other Professional Development Events
- Teaching Resources
- New at the Library of Congress
December Featured Blog Post: The Movement to Teach Disability History Comes Together - includes The Need Remains: 2024 Teacher Survey Results
News of the Field
- RetroReport seeks teacher ambassadors to support innovative videos, lessons and PD. Receive stipends. Apply by January 17.
- The Digital Interest Group (DIG – formerly SHEG) seeks school districts to implement new lessons and materials for Reading Like a Historian, including free professional development. Contact RLHstudy@air.org for info.
- Join Teachers Advancing Civic Learning - a grassroots network of educators trained and empowered to advance and strengthen civic learning through policy at the local, state, and national levels - CivxNow & NCSS.
- New Day Films is a filmmaker-run distributor of educational documentaries. Search hundreds of films.
Disability History News & Resources
- December 10, 12:00-1:00pm Pacific Time - virtual - The Anti-Ableist Manifesto with Tiffany Yu - Disability Cultural Center & Longmore Institute.
- The American Bar Association added a case and additional resources on Supreme Court cases related to disability.
- (Un)Hidden: Disability Histories and Our World - podcast by Alex Green.
- Celebrating Opportunity for People with Disabilities: 70 Years of Dole Leadership - lessons from the Robert J. Dole Archive and Special Collections - Kansas University.
- American Psychological Association Inclusive Language Guide Second Edition (2023).
- Whose Independence? 5th grade lesson features echoes of the U.S. Declaration, including the 1989 Disabled People's Bill of Rights & Declaration of Independence - Cheryl Anne Amendola - National Middle Level Social Studies Teacher of the Year 2023.
- The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability in San Francisco seeks a new Director. (We will post the application link later in December. - RC)
- The Disability History Association seeks graduate students for the (mostly) virtual Disability History Graduate Writing Workshop - feedback and community - February to June, 2025. Apply by January 15.
Events @ Emerging America
Info on Emerging America professional development events: upcoming presentations, past recordings and more.
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Monthly - starting UPDATE - 3:30-5:00pm Eastern - online CES Social Studies PLC - Register.
- Facilitated by veteran teacher-leader Peter Vamosy. Optional PDPs.
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December 19, 5:00pm EST - Teaching Disability History Interest Group - sharing & discussion
- Teachers, researchers, historians and advocates meet virtually quarterly to share ideas, experiences, resources, and research at many levels and to build a community of practitioners nationwide. Link to Teaching Disability History Across America: Primary Source Investigations by ALL Learners or email rcairn@collaborative.org for meeting info.
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February 18 - Civic Engagement in Any Subject: Integrating Local History Across the Curriculum - Northampton, Massachusetts - Stipends - Details & Registration
- Led by veteran civic engagement teacher, Catherine Glennon, Mohawk Trail Regional High School.
- Full day February 18 at CES in Northampton, Massachusetts - with 2-hour virtual follow-up in April, date TBD. Lunch provided.
- Registration is $135 – though completing teachers will receive $300 stipends and be eligible for $300 for projects with students. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region Program.
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April 7-11 - in person and virtual - ADA 35 – Disability Theory; Disability in Practice; Disability as Culture - 4th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale.
- April 10 - Emerging America's Rich Cairn, Ross Newton and Kate Benson and symposium organizer Kenya Loudd from Yale will present a panel on disability, access and inclusion in teaching K-12 students.
- Registration will open soon. Contact kenya.loudd@yale.edu for information.
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July 8 - Teaching Disability History Conference - Keene, New Hampshire - Keene State College
- Details at Teaching Disability History Across America: Primary Source Investigations by ALL Learners.
- Free conference for teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant.
Other Professional Development Events
In-Person
- January 3-6 - New York City - American Historical Association Conference.
- March 20-22 - St. Louis - National Council for History Education Conference.
- January 18, 2025 - Orlando, Florida - SOURCES Annual Conference on teaching with primary sources - University of Central Florida.
Virtual
- December 4 - 7pm - webinar Countering Anti-Immigrant Prejudice: Strategies for Educators in a Politically Charged Climate - ReImagining Migration.
- December 5 - 7pm - webinar President Truman's Push for National Healthcare - Inside the Vault - Gilder Lehrman Institute.
- December 11 - webinar - Criminal Justice Reform & Resistance in the Civil Rights Era & Beyond - Panel: Kenneth Alyass, Say Burgin, Dickinson College, and Simon Balto, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Massachusetts Historical Society.
- December 11 - webinar - Honoring 30 Years of Reproductive Justice Through Art - The Amplifier Project.
- December 15 - Bill of Rights Sunday - free curriculum and resources - National Constitution Center.
- January 15 - virtual & Los Angeles - Memories of Injustice - Sam Mihara - National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Winter-Spring - Democracy Curriculum - courses taught by: Yohuru Wiliams, Terry Anne Scott, Eric Foner, Keisha Blain & others - & Banned Book Club - Institute for Common Power.
Teaching Resources
- Americans Who Tell the Truth - Artist Robert Shetterly portraits and narratives highlight citizens who have addressed issues of social, environmental and economic fairness.
- Resources to Broaden Diversity and Representation in the High School Psychology Curriculum - American Psychological Association - Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools.
- Inclusive Language Guide American Psychological Association - continuously updated document.
- Amazon Rainforest Defenders Confront Violence, Encroachment and Politics - video and curriculum from RetroReport.
- Teaching for Change - curriculum, children's book lists, discussion & more.
- Exploring the Iranian Revolution - Choices Program, Brown University.
- A Culturally Responsive Teaching Guide - Choices Program, Brown University.
- The Valley of the Shadow - Two Communities in the American Civil War - New American History.
New at the Library of Congress
- Transforming Education with Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: My Journey with the Library of Congress Digital Collections - AHHA Intern Spotlight: Ava Thorpe.
- Discover Story Corps - browse diverse collections.
About Emerging America's 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. Since September, 2024 items appear in an Emerging America blog page from the first of each month, with a monthly Constant Contact email notice to our 2,300+ subscribers. Sign up free at the bottom of the page.
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