Emerging America's Inclusive History News - December 2024
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Published on Mon, 12/02/2024
Easterseals Massachusetts #TeachDisabilityHistory campaign team at NCSS 2024 with Graham Warder - Keene State College and Rich Cairn - Emerging America.
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.
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife seeks proposals for papers and presentations for June 27-28 at Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts on: Recalling the Revolution in New England. Email proposal to: dublinseminar@historic-deerfield.org by January 13.
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 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.
The Gillian Film - Filmmaker Joanne Hershfield’s study of her developmentally disabled daughter Gillian moving away from her family and into her first apartment - Perennial Films.
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.
Earn $300 stipend + $300 in project funds.
Optional 1 graduate credit from Westfield State University. (With extra registration fee.)
February 27 - 6:00-7:30pm Eastern Time - Webinar - Building Access to DBQs for Multilingual Learners
The Multilingual Learner Collaborations project of the Massachusetts Council for the Social studies is presenting a webinar in the Immigrant Learning Center public education series.
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.
Free conference for teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant.
DESE Civics Pathways Free Professional Learning - co-designed and co-facilitated by Massachusetts public school teachers, the Democratic Knowledge Project, iCivics, & Project Zero:
Interactive virtual workshops:
Civic Learning in Grades K-5 - Focus on engaging multiple perspectives, meaningful discussions, and daily routines to support civic learning.
Americans Who Tell the Truth - powerful portraits by artist Robert Shetterly
Americans Who Tell the Truth - Artist Robert Shetterly portraits and narratives highlight citizens who have addressed issues of social, environmental and economic fairness.
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Rich Cairn founded Emerging America in 2006, which features the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program at the Collaborative for Educational Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History program, "Forge of Innovation: The Springfield Armory and the Genesis of American Industry." The Accessing Inquiry clearinghouse, supported by the Library of Congress TPS program promotes full inclusion of students with disabilities and English Learners in civics and social studies education.
