EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 27 for September 30, 2020
NEWS
- RECOMMENDED: Northeast Regional Conference for the Social Studies (NERC) 2020 will be online! - October 4-14 - Info & Register. An impressive program! Free. Easy to participate.
- Teaching Tolerance Resources on Voter Suppression. How will you help students cope with an election that has already shown unprecedented voter suppression?
- The Right Question Institute offers curriculum and a “Why Vote?” Tool. for work with student voters.
- UMass Lowell and the Library of New England Immigration launched a rich new website. https://lnei.uml.edu/
- Emerging America seeks input on a draft document, “Tips for Inclusion Supplement to the 2019 DESE Civics Project Guidebook”. Also in the survey, share a strategy YOU use to engage and support students with disabilities in civics projects. Complete the survey.
- History teaching jobs and other employment opportunities at the Collaborative for Educational Services. See our Careers page.
- Next issue of the History eNews is October 7. Submit events & resources to rcairn@collaborative.org by October 4.
What Exactly Is a Disability?
Blog post by Wendy Harris, Teacher, and Emerging America Library of Congress TPS Coach (See below.)
Course: From Reform to Equal Rights: Teach Disability History in the K-12 Classroom - Information and Registration.
Teacher in the Colorado School for the Deaf in first ever film of sign language.
Translation for signing-impaired: https://culturasurda.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/preservation-of-sign-language.pdf
EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info & Registration.
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
- From Reform to Equal Rights: Teaching Disability History in the K-12 Classroom
- PDPs or 1 grad credit. Led by Rich Cairn, Director Emerging America, and by scholar, Graham Warder. Details. This exciting new course will trace the emergence of Disability Rights over two centuries, addressing multiple new content standards in Massachusetts and other states.
- October 27 to December 7. Register by October 13.
- PDPs or 1 grad credit. Led by Rich Cairn, Director Emerging America, and by scholar, Graham Warder. Details. This exciting new course will trace the emergence of Disability Rights over two centuries, addressing multiple new content standards in Massachusetts and other states.
Contact Rich Cairn rcairn@collaborative.org about scheduling Accessing Inquiry and other professional development workshops remotely in your school district or region for 2020-2021.
NEW RESOURCES AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Library of Congress News
- Library of Congress Launches New Tool to Search Chronicling America Historical Newspaper Images
- “Listen Up! A Look at Distance Learning” blog post offers several views of radio-based teaching from 1909-1942.
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:
- Library of Congress launches tool to search images in Chronicling America historic newspapers!
- Group Election Central
- Picture Books: Polio Pioneers - Jonas Salk
- Anti-Abolitionist Attack on the Post Office, Charleston, South Carolina. (1835).
- Album: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Primary source album as part of book club on Jill Lepore’s The Rulers and the Ruled.
- TPS Teachers Network reaches 10,000 members!
Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
- Using a Watch Party to Spur Discussions on Race and other Topics: Another Opportunity to Communicate with Students
- Special National Book Festival: Supporting American Ingenuity in Libraries and Museums
- Constitution Day Reflections: Citizenship Schools for Women in 1920
- Library of Congress Releases Interactive Map Highlighting 136 Literacy Award Recipients
EVENTS (online unless otherwise noted)
- October 1 5-6pm Eastern Time (ET) - Election 2020: Teaching in Unpredictable Times - Facing History
- October 1 - 7pm ET - Inside the Vault: John Brown - Gilder-Lehrman Institute
- October 6 - 3pm ET - Right Question Institute - “Why Vote?” Tool workshop for teachers.
- October 6 - 7:30pm ET - Bending Toward Justice? Teaching Voting Rights and Representation with iCivics + We the People
- October 7 - 8pm ET - The Struggle for Racial Justice and Voting - Facing History.
- October 7 - 12:00pm ET - Leaning in: Teaching Elections and Controversial Issues - iCivics and Vote by Design
- October 7 - A Tribute to Teachers with Lin Manuel Miranda - by Gilder-Lehrman.
- October 7 - 6pm ET - California Burning - Activist, Mike Davis - UMass Amherst History Department - Feinberg Lecture Series
- October 7 - 5pm ET - Teaching the Refugee Experience - Immigrant Learning Center
- Oct. 8-Nov. 20 - Contemporary Issues Course: Borders, Migrations, and Ethnicities: Three Case Studies in Teaching about China Today. 18 hours. Info.
- October 10 - November 11 - History WalkaThon (at your own time!) - Student Activity - Primary Source
- October 20 - 8pm - Reconsidering William Cooper’s Town - Historian, Alan Taylor - American Antiquarian Society
- October 21 - 3:00- 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time - Facing History - Navigating Our Democracy: A Forum on Promoting Democratic Ideals in the Classroom
- October 22 - 5pm Eastern Time - Tips for Remote Teaching in a Time of Controversy - iCivics
- October 28 - 12:30-2:20pm ET - THE NEXT GENERATION ANGELS SECOND ANNUAL STUDENT HISTORY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - Library of Congress and National History Day - Register your class.
- Nov. 4, 7-8pm ET - Implementing Peace, Sarah Campbell, Ketchikan High School. What does it mean to be a "peace teacher" in this moment? Why is peace education so important moving forward? Register here.
- Nov. 18, 7-8pm ET - Imperial Beijing: The Design and Construction of the Northern Capital, Dr. Aurelia Campbell, Boston College. Register here.
- April 8-11 - National Council for History Education national conference. Apply to present and Early registration.
- National History Day - Spring video project - Nov. 6 due date to apply.
RESOURCES
- iCivics offers a lesson plan on Supreme Court Nominations.
- Podcast - A Tale of Two Campaigns, the 1960 Presidential Campaign. JFK Library.
- Social Media Voter Score Card - How are social media platforms handling misinformation? - from Common Sense Media.
- Gilder-Lehrman Institute offers online courses for students.
- History’s Mysteries K-5 Curriculum - Emerging America: Investigate migration, citizenship, the First Amendment, slavery, calls for justice, and more. FREE. http://emergingamerica.org/historys-mysteries
- iCivics - Teaching Online Masterclass https://tom.makematic.com/
- University of Michigan - Read. Inquire. Write.: Argument Writing with Sources. Highly accessible process, published new lessons and methods to adapt them.
- Second Avenue launches new Voices for Suffrage online game.
- St. Louis school librarian Tom Bober’s new Primary Source Podcast. Current episode explores new image search in Chronicling America newspaper collection - Library of Congress.
- Youth in Front - self-paced online course on Supporting Youth Civic Activism - Teaching Tolerance.
OTHER NEW RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ONLINE
See Resources for Education During a Pandemic for complete list.
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