EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 6, Issue 38 for December 4, 2019
NEWS
- Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources course in Northampton moved to March 3 & 31. (To avoid MCAS ELA test date!) Register.
- Infographic: The Marginalization of Social Studies - from Council of Chief State School Officers–promotes K-5 social studies.
- TPS Teachers Network interview re. new group - Primary Sources and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
- Collaborative for Educational Services seeks Program Lead/Teacher at Mt. Tom Academy (Holyoke) - Full Job Description and Application
- Mass DESE Civic Trust Fund Grant RFP - Due Dec. 18 - Info & Application Contact rcairn@collaborative.org to join our proposal: Accessing Civic Engagement with Students with Disabilities: esp. students receiving Special Education or 504 support.
- The Library of Congress will preserve AIDS Memorial Quilt Collection - Announcement
Why Teach Disability History? (see below)
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014709591/
Cripples [sic] at baseball. (Challenging offensive ideas and language in sources is one of many reasons to teach Disability History.) Photograph probably shows a Red Cross field day at Fourth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street, New York City, on September 20, 1919.
EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info & Registration.
Contact rcairn@collaborative.org.
HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION COURSES
PDPs / Or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.
- Integrating Civic Engagement Projects Across the Curriculum - Instructor: Rich Cairn - Develop project plans under 2018 civic engagement legislation and History and Social Science standards. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
- January 21 & February 25, Northampton
- ONLINE - Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources - Instructors Rich Cairn & Alison Noyes. Meets state PD requirement, with attention to teachers of History and Social Science and the Humanities. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
- February 4 to March 16 - Fully ONLINE
- Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources - Instructors: Rich Cairn & Alison Noyes. Meets state PD requirement, with attention to teachers of History and Social Science and the Humanities. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
- NEW DATES - March 3 & March 31 - CES, Northampton
- America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond - Instructor: Kelley Brown. Scholars Peter Carroll and Sebastiaan Faber. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
- April 3-4 - Melrose High School
NEW RESOURCES AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
- TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with experience working with primary sources are welcome to join this network.
- Featured this week - YOU MUST LOGIN FIRST FOR THESE LINKS TO WORK:
Other Library of Congress new resources:
- Video - National Book Festival Presents Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the U.S.
- Podcast - African-American Passages: Black Lives in the 19th Century https://www.loc.gov/podcasts/
Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
- It’s Fall Conference Season and We’re on the Move!
- Analyzing Geographic Data Visualizations to Deepen Student Understanding of Late 19th Century Migration
- A Musical Feast for Thanksgiving Weekend
- Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with the Annual Young Readers Center Puppet Show (the Day After Thanksgiving!)
OTHER EVENTS:
- December 8 - 4:30pm - Historic Northampton: Nonotuck Life Along the Kwinitekw: Revisiting Indigenous Histories in Northampton - A Public Talk by Dr. Margaret Bruchac, University of Pennsylvania - Information and Registration
- December 9 - 5-6pm (online) - Facing History and Ourselves: The Education of an Idealist: A Conversation with Ambassador Samantha Power - Information and Registration
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - 2020 Teacher Seminars - Various Dates - Information and Application
RESOURCES:
- Bill of Rights Institute - Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) Homework Help Video
- NBC News Learn - 4-H Inspires Kids to Do
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives - December 2019 Volunteer Issue - includes article about FDR’s relationship with the Spanish Republic
- Perkins: School for the Blind Archives
- Visions of Education Podcast: An Anticolonial Approach to Civic Education - Leilani Sabzalian
Blog: Why Teach Disability History?
Besides the meeting new requirements in History and Social Science Frameworks in several states, all learners benefit when the curriculum includes the history of this large, diverse, and vital group of Americans. Students with disabilities are empowered when they investigate stories of people like them. Classes gain social justice skills as they learn to challenge offensive language and ideas in source materials. All students benefit from study of the many activists who won civil rights and respect for a long oppressed class of citizens. Examine a multilevel rationale in the full post on the EmergingAmerica.org blog.
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