History eNews from Emerging America - March 18, 2016

HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 3, Issue 10 for March 18, 2016

News

• Jason Scott from Abington HS shared survey results on alternatives midterms.

• Sharon, MA seeks social studies curric. coords. K-5 & 6-12. Check SchoolSpring.

• Western Mass Social Studies Dept. Chairs PLC moved from 04/28 to 05/04 - 3:30-5:00pm - CES, Northampton.

• Join National Council for the Social Studies advocacy for Federal funding for Social Studies.

FREE – Library of Congress TPS @ the Collaborative - Register.

• NEW: Tuesday, April 12 - 3:30-6:30pm - Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Enriching STEM Learning through Primary Sources. http://www.wpi.edu/academics/stem/STEM-through-primary-sources.htm

• Deadline Extended! Earn $25 Barnes & Noble Gift Card. Boston - April 2 - First to Fight: American Volunteers against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) - Clash of ideologies at start of WWII - Peter Carroll & Carlos Ramos

This workshop brings top scholars from Stanford and Wellesley to work with teachers regarding this powerful moment in World and U.S. History. Work with inspired & inspiring teacher-leaders. Take away lesson & resources ready to use!

• † Springfield - April 9, May 9, and June 13 - America’s Warriors in the Modern Era: World War II to Iraq. Vietnam War scholar Chris Appy, U.S. Veterans. Build lessons.

  • The Armory houses the world's largest collection of U.S. military firearms.

  • The Armory employed 16,000 area men and women on its WWII peak workforce, was a leading area employer, and (with other federal manufacturing facilities) led the way among American manufacturers in integrating immigrants, women and minorities into skilled manufacturing jobs mostly held by WASP males into the 20th Century.

  • The Armory exhibits, library, and archive hold a rich assortments of primary documents (including newspaper articles, photos, posters, payroll records, and other documents and artifacts) that help bring the social and cultural history of different eras to life.

Register here or as noted.  † = Grad credit History.  * = General ed grad credit.

Also:

• * Northampton - Starts Apr 13 - Helping Struggling Readers Understand Complex Informational Texts – Ken Pransky

• * Northampton - Starts May 02 - Nurturing Student Inquiry and Student Voice Through Informational Texts – Rich Cairn

• * Boston - May 7 & 14 - Landscape of Revolution - Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center. Register directly with Leventhal. John Hannigan on African American soldiers. Develop lesson for your classroom!

• † Arlington - June 6-7 - Immigration Issues in Perspective: Building Curriculum with Primary Sources.

RESOURCES @ THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - http://LoC.Gov/teachers

Library of Congress Teacher Blog Posts

• Using Historic Newspapers to Trace an Event across Time & Space: Women’s Suffrage.

• Reading Portraits: Analyzing Art as a Primary Source.

• Supporting Student Research Skills.

Library of Congress Fellowship

• Call for Applications: Early Elementary Teacher-in-Residence 2016-2017 in DC.

OTHER RECOMMENDED EVENTS and RESOURCES

• Tuesday Webinars and Workshops presented by NCSS: Religion, Social Studies, & You; Sustainable Social Studies; Engaging  Social Studies with your Interactive Whiteboard

• March 20, 2:00pm - “Colonization and Captivity in Native Space” - Historic Deerfield.

• March 22, 5:00pm - High School History Education Today.  Lecture and Workshop with Master Teacher Kelley Brown M’Ed ‘01 - UMass Amherst, Herter Hall, rm 601.

• March 22 - 5:30pm Teaching Tolerance webinar - The Young and the Registered.

• March 22 - 6:00pm - “Missing Women, Blank Maps and Data Voids” talk by Joni Seager at Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.

• March 23 - 4:00-6:00pm “Sharing the Prize: Reconsidering the Economics of the Civil Rights Movement” UMass Amherst - Gavin Wright, John Bracey, Gerald Friedman, Katherine Newman.

• March 24  - 10:30am - 3:30pm - Mass State House - Boston - Mass Social Studies Advocacy Day

• March 24 - The 1937 Project Exposition, "Resurrecting the Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley”, 7pm-9pm, UMass Amherst, More info here

• April 14 - 1:00pm Ford’s Theater Virtual Field Trip - and YouTube & Twitter interactive.

• 2016 Summer Teacher Fellowship Program - Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, July- August, $2,500 stipend, application deadline April 29, Register here

• “Wealth Inequalities in Greater Boston: Do Race and Ethnicity Matter” Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Report

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