EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 10, Issue 5 for May 19, 2023
In this Issue
- Events @ Emerging America
- News
- New at the Library of Congress
- Professional Development Events
- Other Resources
- [if applicable] Blog post preview: Whose stories? Consider Immigrant History. Link to full blog post.
Tools to empower learners
The Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum models many strategies for inclusive skills and content, vocabulary, and assessment–in a framework of Universal Design for Learning.
This slide from the curriculum is an example of many innovative tools for access in the Reform to Equal Rights curriculum.
Events @ Emerging America - Info & Registration.
Mark your calendars for these Emerging America courses and workshops. Contact rcairn@collaborative.org or anoyes@collaborative.org.
Graduate Courses - Online
PDPs / or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.
Scholarships for Winter Courses - Registration fees of $50 and $100
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Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources - Northampton, MA (in person)
- October 19 and November 16 two-day grad course.
- Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.
- Alison Noyes, Emerging America with Jacqueline LaFrance, ELL specialist. Focus on inquiry strategies that work to support accessible social studies teaching, informed by recent pilot-tested methods developed for social studies teachers working with primary sources with multilingual learners.
- Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region mini-grant. Register for Accessing Inquiry.
Presentations and Recordings from Emerging America
Upcoming Presentations and Past Recordings from Emerging America
See complete list of short webinars, poster presentations, and more.
Mark your calendar:
- October 19, 7-8pm Eastern Time - National Council for the Social Studies professional development webinar: Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the Social Studies.
- National Council for the Social Studies - Nashville - December 1-3, 2023.
- Info on the NCSS 2023 NCHE Conference.
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America will present on the Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum
- Alison Noyes, English Learner Collaborations/MCSS will present on 'What Do ESL Teachers Wish You Knew'
- Watch for other highlights on inclusion as they develop.
News
- Emerging America aims to document how well we are doing with the effort to include perspectives of disability in American classrooms. Help us learn what is being taught (or not). Share this very short survey.
- Read Rich Cairn’s Emerging America blog post Teaching with Integrity in Challenging Times, with practical strategies and resources for social studies teachers in the face of classroom censorship laws and political attacks.
Teaching with Integrity. Katharina Matro, a high school social studies teacher who grew up in Germany, explains how consistent and open education about the Holocaust shaped her own commitment to democracy and her love of country. Video from the American Historical Association.
- Join the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS)–and your state association. All social studies teachers depend on NCSS advocacy and resources.
- Response by NCSS to alarming results from NAEP 2022 Civics & History Assessments at Grade 8. NCSS position statements.
- Texas legislation limits civic education in schools - The 74.
- Unpacking Trauma-Informed Teaching - Jennifer Gonzalez - Cult of Pedagogy.
- Is Holocaust Education Making Anti-Semitism Worse? - The Atlantic.
- Submit a proposal to present at the 2024 National Council for History Education conference in Cleveland - March 7-9.
- Submit a proposal to present a paper at next year’s 2024 Conrad E. Wright Research Conference on Citizenship - Massachusetts Historical Society.
- History & Civics Grants for Projects Targeting K-5 Students - Educating for American Democracy - Apply by May 31.
- The next issue of History eNews is August 17. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by August 9.
New at the Library of Congress
- What’s New Online at the Library of Congress?
- U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Appointed for a Historic Two-Year Second Term.
- Subscribe to the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources monthly Update - events, resources and professional development.
- Fall 2023 Teaching with Primary Sources Internships.
- American Federation of Labor Letters in the Progressive Era - transcription opportunities.
- New Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis & Clark Expedition Primary Source Set.
- Maps of You (And Everyone You Know) - blog post.
TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with interest in working with primary sources are welcome to join this network. Featured this issue - (log in to see DISCUSSIONS; no log-in needed for ALBUMS):
- DISCUSSION: The Rest of the Story: Students Documenting Covid 19 using Historic Empathy and Library of Congress Primary Sources.
- VIDEO: Private i History Detectives
- DISCUSSION: Question Everything - Haudenosaunee's Great Law of Peace in the U. S. Constitution?
- DISCUSSION: Using Cartoons to Debate Imperialism.
- DISCUSSION: Earthquakes!
- DISCUSSION: How did we get Hawaii--A brutal conquest of Capitalism
- DISCUSSION: Presidents (Vice-Presidents) and the Law - Current Events
You may link directly to these resources.
- ALBUM: Historical Empathy Toolbox: Teaching the COVID-19 Pandemic
- ALBUM: Trees! Trees! Trees!
- ALBUM: Gr. 11 QFT Lesson Plan Intersectionality in Poetry by J. Cook.pdf - Audrey Lord
Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
- Reflections from the Library: Interesting Finds to Collaborate
- Launching Units with Primary Source Phenomena: Like a Shot from a Bow
- Teaching Scientific Literacy: The Case of Medicinal Teas
- Teaching Scientific Literacy: The Case of the Psychic Force
- Gordon Parks and the New Deal: Life Documented in Photographs
- Two Questions with Literacy Achieves, Literacy Action, and Literacy Network, 2022 Literacy Awards Successful Practice Honorees
Disability History Resources & Updates
- Usability and (Digital) Accessibility Consortium Interest Group Forming - Contact Bert Snow or Alison Noyes - anoyes@collaborative.org.
- Join Emerging America task group to develop webinar on disability history for Special Education teachers. Apply by May 18.
- Learning Disabilities Association of America podcasts.
- Everywhere And Nowhere: Guidance for ethically researching and interpreting disability histories - University of Leicester, UK.
- US Constitution in Simple English - Elizabeth Claire.
- Well + Being poster series by New Zealand artist Gina Kiel - Amplifier Art.
- “Our Hands” Minnesota Book Award Winner, Deafblind Poet, John Lee Clark for - Review of “How to Communicate” from Public Books.
Summer 2023 - All are in-person unless noted
- June 5 - August 6 - Framingham State Univ. - Fundamental Principles, Values, & Institutions of American Government - MA Center for Civic Education - rodesros@gmail.com for info.
- June 12-13, Orlando - June 26-28, Kansas City - July 13-14, Portland, OR - Inquiry and Teaching with Primary Sources Summer Institutes - National Council for the Social Studies.
- July 6 - August 10 - Library of Congress TPS Leadership Institute - online.
- July 21 - Mars Hill University, NC - Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Appalachia.
- August 10-11 - Portsmouth, NH - Remedial Herstory Project.
Other Resources
- How to Make an Infographic videos & step-by-step guide from Jamie Creek at Periodic Presidents.
- Constitutional Rights Foundation May Newsletter: U.S., China, & Taiwan; Haymarket 1886.
- Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - National Council for History Education.
- Supporting Rural Teachers with the National Council for History Education by Sarah Drake Brown and Regina Holland - in American Association for State and Local History.
- Children Discovering Justice - free K-2 curriculum - Discovering Justice.
- Videos for The Vietnam War: Origins, History, and Legacies - Choices Program, Brown University.
- Raising Voices Annotated Resource Sets - Inquiry Kits from St. Vrain School District, Colorado.
- Classroom Resources Library - non-partisan National Constitution Center.
- Information literacy in a polarized era - New Jersey Education Association.
New Blog Post: Time Out – Spotlight Offensive Language in Primary Sources
By Rich Cairn
Using nearly 250 primary sources on disability history as part of the Reform to Equal Rights curriculum development project, we repeatedly encountered offensive language about disability in the sources. This blog post offers strategies that we have found effective to aid students to address such terms in a positive and respectful way.
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