History eNews from Emerging America - March 8, 2017

Emerging America History eNEWS Vol. 4, Issue 9 for MARCH 8, 2017

NEWS

• NERC - April 3-4 - Boston - Historian David Kennedy and more - REGISTER!

• March 29 - 9am-4:30pm - Social Studies 2017 Legislative Day - Mass State House - Schedule time with your legislators. Details: http://www.masscouncil.org.  REGISTER.

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SPRING EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info

Meet state requirements for Professional Development on Teaching Struggling Learners, with a program designed for teachers of Social Studies!

Hands-on, high quality, low cost professional development to support ALL learners to access Social Studies and Humanities content!

• Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources. March 27 & April 11. 8am - 4pm. Northampton. Albert Mussad & Rich Cairn. $65. Snacks, lunch, and all materials included. Examine immigration issues across history. Integrate innovative and engaging teaching approaches and techniques to support all learners. REGISTER.

• Accessing Inquiry for Student with Disabilities through Primary Sources. April 13 & 27 - Northampton. Laurie Risler & Rich Cairn. $65. Snacks, lunch, and all materials included. Grad credit available for extra fee. REGISTER.

Optional 1 Westfield State University grad credit in History available for $125 extra fee.

“Accessing Inquiry” courses meet Mass license renewal requirements for 15-hours PD on students with disabilities or 15-hours PD on English Learners. Link to renewal regulations.

How can we help students meet today’s challenges to democracy?

• America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond - This powerful workshop, features dynamic teacher Kelley Brown and top scholars from Stanford and Oberlin. Explore propaganda (including “Fake News”), mass media, and examination of the Klan, neo-Nazis, and far right in the United States today. Offered in English with Spanish language breakout. $25. Snacks, lunch, and all materials included. Optional grad credit in History available for fee. March 31 & April 1. Holyoke. REGISTER.

NOW FULL:

• Immigration Issues in Perspective for Diverse Students. March 15 - May 3. $25. 15 hours. Earn 22.5 PDPs–or 1 grad credit. Info.

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RESOURCES @ THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Library of Congress Teachers Blog

• Using Rosa Parks own notes on the bus boycott. Post.

• Finding the Story Behind the Picture. EXCELLENT! Worth looking just for the cool photo. Post.

Library of Congress Summer Institutes - Free - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/teacherinstitute/

• June 19-23, June 26-30, and July 10-14 – All subject areas.

• July 17-21 - Science, Technology, and Engineering.

• July 31-August 4 - World War I

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OTHER RECOMMENDED EVENTS and RESOURCES - Statewide & on the Web

• March 9 - 7pm - “Freedom Stories of the Pioneer Valley” African Americans who achieved their freedom in remarkable ways. Cliff McCarthy. Palmer Historical and Cultural Center.

• March Webinars - National Council for the Social Studies - Topics include: Inquiry - Analyzing Photographs - African Diaspora - ISIS - and more!

• March 26 - 2pm - Historic Deerfield - "'Earthen Ware, made in Boston." Angelika Kuettner, Assoc. Curator of Ceramics, Colonial Williamsburg. Also Art of Printing, & more.

• Regions & Seasons: Mapping Climate through History - Exhibit and Speaker Series - Boston Public Library - Leventhal Map Center

• Smith College Art Gallery - Exhibitions on China (through May 7) Pompeii (through August 13).

• April 11 - 5:15 pm, Seelye 106 - Smith College, lecture by The Venerable Thubten Chodron, Life as a Western Buddhist Nun.

• April 29 - 9am - 1pm- Smith College - Teaching China: A Contemporary Lens on Changing Gender Roles - Five College Center for East Asian Studies

• Periodic Table of the Presidents - InfoGraphic on Presidential Inauguration Speeches.

Previously Announced–worth repeating:

• Historic Northampton:

  • March 13, 5-8pm - Historic Northampton - Opening Reception for March 13-30 - “States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories” https://pv-soi.org/

  • March 15, 7pm - Forbes Library - “Punishment in Paradise: The History of Incarceration in Northampton, 1654-present” - Mike Ryan

  • March 29, 7pm - Forbes Library - “Real Madness: Warehousing People with Mental Illness in Prisons” - Robert Fleischner

• American Antiquarian Society - Worcester:

  • March 16 - 7pm - “The Matter of Black Lives” on Frederick Douglass. - Ezra Greenspan

  • March 28 - 6-9pm - “Scientific Americans: The Art of Science in the New Nation” - Gregory Nobles

  • March 30 - 7pm - John James Audubon and the Origins of Citizen Science - Gregory Nobles

  • April 11 - 7pm - “Equal Rights… Have They Been Realized?” - Richard Brown

  • April 25 - 7pm - “If I Am Not for Myself Who Will Be for Me” - One-person play about George Washington’s slave Oney - Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti

  • May 2 - 7pm - “Slave Resistance and the Making of Abolition” - Manisha Sinha

  • May 11, 6-9pm - “Medicine and Health in Early America”

• Becoming Helen Keller - Follow Disability History on Facebook.

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