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Read “Massachusetts Passes Genocide Education Legislation" by Emerging America's Rich Cairn in June's Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives The Volunteer.
In December 2021, Massachusetts became the 20th state to pass legislation requiring that every student learn about genocide. (See the Massachusetts law.) The law pointedly requires that students learn about hu…
Date: Feb 2 2022
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Wendy Harris teaches at Metro Deaf School in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been a classroom teacher for Deaf students of all ages since 2003 and currently splits her teaching duties between high school social studies and teaching braille and other skills to the school’s DeafBlind students ages 2-21.
Re-post of the lesson introduction from February, 2021This school year [2020-2021], man…
Date: Jan 12 2022
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol.
Date: Jan 5 2022
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Guest Post by Kelley Brown and Laurie Risler, creators of History's Mysteries
Happy New Year to all of you!
We wanted to share some special and great news with you.
1. We have four NEW units and three NEW "Introduction to Inquiry" mysteries available for use on our History's Mysteries website!Our newest units include:
Grade 2: How does culture im…
Date: Dec 8 2021
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Date: Dec 8 2021
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Building Student Engagement in a Special Education Classroom
Originally published by the Right Question Institute, in the Teaching + Learning Experts in the Field resources series. Republished here with permission.
by Esther LeeAs a special education teacher in New York City, I had gotten used to my heterogeneous classroom of kids. Last year, however, I was taken aback by my classro…
Date: Nov 10 2021
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New Mini-Units Will Integrate Disability History across K-12 Curriculum; Seeking teachers to pilot mini-units.
Free Teaching with Primary Sources Micro-credentials - Barat Foundation’s Citizen U micro-credentials on using primary sources, hosted by the National Education Association (NEA), and created in partnership with Emerging America, and Inquiry in the Upper Midwest. Includes Universal Desig…
Date: Oct 13 2021
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In a 10th grade classroom, a newly arrived student from Sudan, a returning student from a migrant worker family, and a student whose family came from Cambodia in the 1970s are among the 25 students in a US History class. These three students have been silent in all previous class discussions. The teacher knows their WIDA English-Language-Development proficiency scores.