Inclusive History News
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October Featured Blog Posts:
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News of the Field
Emerging America's Inclusive History News - October 2024
Published on Wed, 10/02/2024
Emerging America's Inclusive History News - September 2024
Published on Fri, 08/30/2024
Emerging America History eNews is now: Inclusive History News
Committed to Access and Inclusion of All Learners in Civics, History and Social Studies
Created in response to teacher requests in 2013, the History eNews emailed monthly short descriptions and links of quality history and social studies events and resources.
5 Ways to Teach Disability History in Social Studies Class
Published on Wed, 08/21/2024
5 Ways to Teach Disability History in Social Studies Class
Kara Newhouse - KQED - Mind/Shift
In this insightful article, Newhouse explores practical approaches and resources to integrating disability history into teaching about:
Choices Program: Disability Histories Now
Published on Tue, 05/21/2024
Guest post by Max Chervin Bridge
Teach Disability History Using Court Cases
Published on Thu, 01/25/2024
Post by Rich Cairn and Ross Newton
"Court cases are great for teaching history because they often deal with concrete details from everyday life."
- Ross Newton, High School History teacher, HEC Academy.
ESL examples: Daily Life in Colonial Massachusetts through Primary Sources (3rd Grade)
Exploring timelines, reading dates aloud and constructing their own personal timeline helps multilingual learners to connect lives of colonial people of Massachusetts to their own life and identity.
ESL examples: Is it ever ok to break a law? (High School)
Although this series of lessons utilizes sources from the Civil Rights Movement, the topic of focus could be changed to better support student needs or to better align to your topics of study.
ESL examples: Can you always speak your mind freely in schools? (8th grade)
Throughout these lessons, multilingual learners will develop the language necessary for success in the content area of social studies.
Online Exhibit on Impacts of the Civil War on Disability
Published on Tue, 10/17/2023
Explore the compelling stories of Civil War nurses and disabled veterans.
How did their experiences change America?
Visit the new online exhibit: How Civil War Veterans Transformed Disability.
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Disability History Is Essential History - 2023 Report on the Teaching of Disability History
Published on Tue, 09/05/2023
Emerging America 2023 Survey on the Teaching of Disability History
By Rich Cairn, Emerging America
At the end of the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years, Emerging America widely promoted an online survey of teachers to discover how much they teach disability history. Though the response has been small, the results offer intriguing insights.