History eNews from Emerging America - July 29, 2020

EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 23 for July 29, 2020

NEWS

• Emerging America FALL COURSES now open for registration! (See below.) 

• Leadership for Remote Learning by Rebecca Mazur, CES, and Rebecca Woodland, UMass Amherst - identifies ways to meet five needs of teachers in the shifting school planning environment.

•  2020 Immigrant Student Success Toolkit offers links to social studies teaching resources with tips for remote learning strategies to support immigrant learners.

• How Students Benefit from a School Reopening Plan Designed for Those at the Margins - UCal Berkeley Design Challenge reimagines classrooms. 

• Johns Hopkins launches K-12 School Reopening Policy Tracker

• The Springfield Armory National Historic Site Online FB exhibit - July 27th to August 26th - The Art of Equality: Celebrating the Leadership of Women Workers in Springfield

• NCSS introduces New Website. 

• New NCSS president, Stefanie Wager makes a case for the Social Studies as central and essential to current struggles for social justice. 

• No eNews next two weeks. Next issue is August 19. Submit events & resources to rcairn@collaborative.org by August 16. 

 

Fall Online Grad Course 

Black Communities and Agency:

Fighting Jim Crow and Institutional Racism (1877-1940)

How can teachers engage their students with study of civic life, agency and community? By studying the history of post-Reconstruction American institutions and the struggles for Black equality and justice—even the simple right to live one’s life. PDPs or 3 grad credits. Led by Kelley Brown, with scholar Amilcar Shabbazz, UMass Amherst Department of Afro American Studies. Details. Register by September 14. 

 

EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info & Registration.

Contact rcairn@collaborative.org.

 

HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION COURSES

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

• Black Communities and Agency: Fighting Jim Crow and Institutional Racism (1877-1940)
  • This timely 12-week, fully online course will examine Black communities’ resistance–legal, intellectual, educational, social–to Jim Crow and the other forms of oppression during a bleak period in race relations in America. PDPs or 3 grad credits. Led by Kelley Brown, with scholar Amilcar Shabbazz, UMass Amherst Department of Afro-American Studies. Details 
    • September 29 to December 13. Register by September 14. 
• Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources
  • Successful course taught across the U.S. Meets 15 hour Mass license requirement for PD on teaching ELs. PDPs or 1 grad credit. Led by Rich Cairn and Alison Noyes, Emerging America. Details.
    • October 19 to December 5. Register by October 5.
• From Reform to Equal Rights: Teaching Disability History in the K-12 Classroom
  • This exciting new course will trace the emergence of Disability Rights over two centuries, addressing multiple new content standards in Massachusetts and other states. PDPs or 1 grad credit. Led by Rich Cairn, Emerging America and scholar, Graham Warder. Details.
    • October 27 to December 7. Register by October 13

 

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 - YOU MUST LOGIN FIRST FOR THESE LINKS TO WORK:

• • The Labor Movement and Conflict in America: Through the Lens of American Government

  • The Labor Movement and Conflict in America: Through the Lens of Geography

  • Comics and Graphic Novels as Primary Sources Summer 2020

  • Photos: 3 Very Different Views Of Japanese Internment

  • Posters for People 2020 

  • Book Backdrop on "That Book Woman" by Heather Henson

  • Need Ideas! Primary Source Icebreakers Online

• Check out many great resources posted in the TPS Teaching Online with Primary Sources group.  

National Book Festival Presents - Race in America: Joy Harjo & Tracy K. Smith

Webinar Recordings from Teaching with Primary Sources, including - Reflecting on Using Primary Sources to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners

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

• Using American Archive of Public Broadcasting Resources to Engage Students in the Past and Present
• Helping Students to Ask the Right Questions
• Online Educational Events: Using the Library of Congress Digital Music Collections, July 21, and Analyzing Multiple Perspectives, July 22
• Five Questions with Barbara Bavis, Bibliographic and Research Instruction Librarian at the Law Library of Congress
• Free Puzzles through Chronicling America: Maze Edition
• Online Educational Events: Junior Fellows Share their Final Projects, July 28 and Rosa Parks in Her Own Words, July 29

 

EVENTS

• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Self-Paced Course: Lives of the Enslaved - Information and Registration 

• Mikva Challenge Workshops - Information and Registration

• Citizen U and DePaul University - RISE Micro-Credential - Registration (fees apply)

  • RISE Webinar 1 - Tuesday, August 4th - 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CST

  • RISE Webinar 2 - Tuesday, August 11th - 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CST

  • RISE Webinar 3 - Tuesday, August 18th - 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CST

• Stanford History Education Group - Information and Registration

  • Session 1 Dates: August 12-14, 2020

  • Session 2 Dates: August 24-26, 2020

• August 1 - Florida Council for History Education Virtual Conference: Communication in History: The Key to Understanding - Information and Registration 

• August 4-6 - National Council for History Education Online Summit - Information and Registration

• August 10 - 7pm (Webinar) - Five College Consortium: Teaching Contemporary China with Choices Unit -  Information and Registration 

• August 26-29 - Boston Athenaeum: Primary Sources in the Classroom - 

  Information and Registration 

• September 7-November 15 (Online Seminar) - Five College for East Asian Studies: War and Peace: Voices from Japan -Information and Registration 

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RESOURCES

• Teaching Tolerance - 

  • Black, Indigenous and People of Color Mental Health Month

  • Indigenous Peoples' History

• Bill of Rights Institute - 

  Free Digital Textbook: Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of Happiness

• Citizen U - Emerging America Lesson Plans

• Kids Citizen: A Bird's Eye View: Wondering with Maps

• University of Maryland - Teaching Difficult History with Primary Sources

• 2020 Immigrant Student Success - 

  • 5 Things Teachers Can Do 

  • Strategies and Tools for K-12 and Adult Educators

Also see Resources for Education During a Pandemic

 

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