History eNews from Emerging America - February 24, 2021

EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 8, Issue 5 for February 24, 2021

IN THIS ISSUE

• News
• Events @ Emerging America 
• New at the Library of Congress
• Professional Development Events
• Other Resources
• Emerging America New Lesson and Blog post: How Disability Activists Created Change

 

How Disability Activists Created Change

New Lesson Plan from Emerging America

http://www.disabilityhistory.org/BlackPantherParty_504.html 

"Black Panthers saved the 504 sit-in," Corbett O'Toole. Black Panther Party Newspaper, May 7, 1977. During the 504 protests at the San Francisco Federal Building in 1977, the Black Panther Party provided support, including feeding the demonstrators during the 26-day sit-in. See the related album in TPS Teachers Network

See more on this lesson below. Emerging America offers a robust set of accessible lesson plans on Disability History. 

 

NEWS

• March 2, 3-4:45pm Eastern - Release of the 2021 Educating for American Democracy Roadmap and Report. Info. 

• New History's Mysteries 4th grade unit: How do maps help us understand the world? 

• Using History's Mysteries to Teach African American History - blog post by Laurie Risler. 

• iCivics evaluation finds improvement in civic knowledge and dispositions. 

• Earn $5,000 stipend to create materials for the 1619 Project Education Network. 

• New North High School launched a new Civic Engagement and Service website! 

• In collaboration with Primary Source, Massachusetts DESE is creating open-source history curriculum aligned with grades 5, 6, & 7 standards. Pilot is planned for fall; release in summer 2022. If interested in piloting, email reuben.f.henriques@mass.gov. 

• Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century - national report. 

• Emerging America rescheduled the course: Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources to July.

• Next issue of History eNews is March 10. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by March 7

 

EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info & Registration.

Mark your calendars for these Emerging America courses and workshops. Contact rcairn@collaborative.org.

HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION COURSES

PDPs / OR optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.  

 

• Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources:

  • ALL states' teachers welcome! Focus on Massachusetts and Maryland state standards and resources. 
  • Led by Rich Cairn and Alison Noyes, Emerging America; Lia Atanat, Maryland Humanities. 
  • Earn 22.5 PDPs (MA), 15 hours (other states), or 1 grad credit in History from Westfield State University. Meets Massachusetts 15-hour recertification requirement on teaching English Learners. 
  • April 9 - May 21. One live webinar. Info & Registration. 

 

• Teaching the History's Mysteries K-5 Curriculum: 

  • Earn 10 PDPs by completing the workshop and submitting reflective input after you teach the curriculum. Led by program creators, Laurie Risler and Kelley Brown. Info about the free History’s Mysteries: Historical Inquiry for Elementary Classrooms. Info & Registration. 
  • April 14, 7-8:15pm 
  • Follow-up session for all in June. 

 

• The Right to Privacy: "The Most Valued and Comprehensive Right": 

  • Taught by outstanding teacher-leader Kelley Brown and historian David Hudson. 
  • Earn 67.5 PDPs (MA), 45 hours (other states), or 3 grad credits from Westfield State University. 
  • May 3 - June 25. Two live webinars: May 19 & June 9. Info & Registration. 

 

EMERGING AMERICA WEBINARS & CONFERENCES

See complete list of short webinars, poster presentations, and more. 

• March 3-30 - Strategies for Teaching Inquiry with English Learners through Primary Sources - Six-hour asynchronous workshop in partnership between Emerging America and Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Western Region TPS. Register. 
• May 7-8 - Teaching History Conference - UC Davis and the California History and Social Science Project. Info & Registration.

Contact Rich Cairn rcairn@collaborative.org to schedule Accessing Inquiry and other professional development workshops remotely in your school district or region in 2021.

 

NEW RESOURCES AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with interest in working with primary sources are welcome to join this network. Featured this week - (log in to see DISCUSSIONS; no log-in needed for ALBUMS):

• ALBUM: How Music Is a Voice for Change

• ALBUM: Diplomatic History

• ALBUM:  Using Inquiry in the Elementary Classroom: History's Mysteries

• ALBUM: Using Garage Band to Teach Children's Books - The Rocket Book (1912)

• ALBUM:  Coal River Mountain and Environmental Justice

• ALBUM: Meet Me at the Mall: An Architectural and Cultural History 

• ALBUM: Northwest Ordinance

• ALBUM:  Street View - Late 19th Early 20th Century style 

• ALBUM:  American Involvement in WWI

• ALBUM:  W.E.B. DuBois and the 1919 Paris Exhibition

 

Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/

• What's New Online? Explore Recently Digitized Collections from the Library of Congress

• Additions to Chronicling America Highlight the Revolutionary War and More!

• Celebrating George Washington and the Other Presidents of the United States with Primary Sources

 

EVENTS (Online unless otherwise noted)

• February 24, 7:30pm Eastern - Landfall: Film Screening and Q&A with the Director - UMass Amherst Deptartment of History - Feinberg Series on the Environment.Info . 

• February 25, 7pm Eastern - Facing History Now: Conversations on Equity and Justice - Athlete Upstanders & the Role of Activism in Sports. Info. 

• February 25 to March 9 - Unladylike 2020 Webinars - New Visions and PBS. Info. 

• February 28, 2pm Eastern - "Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement" - Cathleen Cahill, Penn State - Historic Deerfield. Info.

• March 4, 7pm - Webinar: Support & Guidance for Your Students' Civics Projects - Civics. Info. 

• March 10 - Imagery and National Identity Over Two Centuries. Teaching History While Living. American Revolution Institute. Info. 

• March 11 - 1pm Eastern - Forum: Using Civic Media to Build a Better Society - Library of Congress. Info. 

• March 16, 7pm Eastern - Sports in Japan: The Olympics and More - Robin Kietlinski. Info. 

• March 18-19 - Symposium - In Her Own Right: A Century of Women's Activism 1820-1920 -  http://inherownright.org/ - Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries. Info. 

• March 28, 2pm - "Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915" - Jonathan Grinspan, National Museum of American History - Historic Deerfield. Info. 

• April 15 - 1pm - Forum: How Political Institutions Shape Outcomes and How We Might Reform Them - Library of Congress. Info. 

• May 13 - 1pm Eastern - Forum: Finding a Shared Historical Narrative - Library of Congress - Info. 

• April 14 - 6:45pm - webinar panel: Disability Visibility: Intersectionality in Art, Design, and Museums - Smithsonian Associates 

• April 23, 7:30pm - We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution National Finals. Info. 

• Call for Proposals for 2021 National Humanities Conference is open! The conference will be November 11-14 in Detroit.

 

SUMMER 

• NEH WORKSHOPS offer stipends up to $1,300. Applications due March 1. All virtual

  • The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction - K-8 Teachers - Gilder Lehrman Institute

  • "The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800" - American Antiquarian Society. Info. 

• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Appalachian Culture through Primary Sources - Mars Hill College, North Carolina. Takes place on Mars Hill College campus Info. 

• Teaching for East Asia - Virtual Summer Institute: Considering Early Modern East Asia Through Maritime History. Info. 

• American History and Civics Academies - Center for Civic Education. Info. 

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RESOURCES

• 11 Strategies for Remote and Hybrid Teaching - Facing History 

• Civics Inquiries, Resources, and Lessons - Reimagining Migration

• Interactive Data & Maps on Migration - University of Washington 

• Social Justice Digital Classroom! - Enchanted Circle Theater

• In Service to a Cause - lesson on John Brown - from CitizenU. 

• Black Lives Matter - Disability Rights Intersection Padlet. 

• Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) materials on the African American Freedom Movement

• U of Michigan Creates Writing Materials in Spanish for Bi/Multilingual Learners

• 500 Years of Migration: The Chinese in America

• The Young and the Woke: Indigenous Ways of Know - 11 minute recording

•  Anxious to Vote: STUDENTS, WORKERS AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE - Stoneham & Waltham Public Schools

• History Detectives: Voting Rights in Mississippi, 1964 - Civil Rights Teaching (applies Question Formulation Technique) 

• Presidents and the Constitution - Bill of Rights Institute

• Teach Women in the 18th Century - Mt Vernon

• What Educators Can Do in 100 Days - Learning For Justice Journal

 

NEW LESSON PLAN

How Disability Activists Created Change  

Wendy Harris

Using primary and secondary sources about protests by members of the Disability Rights Movement in the 1970s and 1980s, students identify strategic actions taken by activists and evaluate them as to the level of personal risk or investment needed to participate. They consider them in relation to actions by African- American civil rights activists of that time and earlier, and of social justice activists in their own generation. 

Link to the lesson plan.

 

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