Date: Apr 6 2015
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NEWS
Registration Open: for nine FREE Summer 2015 Emerging America events statewide. Information & Registration here.
Reminder: Western Mass. Social Studies Professional Learning Community - April 7, 3:30-5:00pm. Snacks. Civics Education and Civic Engagement is topic. Contact rcairn@collaborative.org for info. All welcome!
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Teaching with Primary Sources @ the Collaborative…
Date: Jun 7 2017
Author:
Rich Cairn, Emerging America, Collaborative for Educational Services, Northampton, Massachusetts
Completed mostly by secondary social studies teachers and by school and district administrators, the survey shows a robust social studies program at the secondary level across Massachusetts. Most districts offer some kind of civics course. A majority offer some sort of civic engagement project. Of som…
Date: Apr 17 2015
Author:
NEWS
SURVEY: What grad credit do you need? Do you need PDPs in History? Education? https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2015EmergingAmerica
Civics & Social Studies PD in the New Federal Education Act? - Learn how you can support it. Learn how to involve youth in civic engagement. April 22, 6:00pm - Advocacy Webinar - Civics for All - National Council for the Social Studies www.socialstudies.org/adv…
Date: Nov 1 2016
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Emerging America History eNEWS Vol. 3, Issue 32 for November 2, 2016
NEWSYOUR INPUT NEEDED by State survey on Civic Learning and Engagement.
Mark your calendars: ESE 2nd Annual Conference on Civic Learning & Engagement - May 8, 2017 - EM Kennedy Institute in Boston.
Date: May 4 2015
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This performance task requires students to compare text, sound files, and images to deepen their understanding of the efforts by African Americans to advance the Double V Campaign (victory over racism at war and at home) during WWII. A timeline helps students sequence and visualize the relative length of time between events. Anticipating a growing national emphasis on the use of text analysis,…
Date: Nov 6 2016
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[caption id="attachment_9875" align="alignright" width="218"] Miss [Lucy] Burns in Occoquan Workhouse, Washington.[/caption]In an age of mass incarceration, tracing the origins and history of detainment is a meaningful exercise in understanding the current situation of imprisonment in the United States. Drawing on items such as images, maps, political cartoons, and reports available from the digit…
Date: Jun 14 2017
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More than 60 Attend Joint Education Committee Hearing on Civic Education
[caption id="attachment_10308" align="alignright" width="300"] Rich Cairn with Sen. Harriette Chandler. [/caption]Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz and Rep. Alice Peisch held a two-hour hearing on 26 Civic Education bills introduced in this session of the General Court of Massachusetts.
Sen. Harriet Chandler, Sen. Eric Lesser, Rep. Lind…
Date: May 6 2015
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[caption id="attachment_11713" align="alignright" width="300"] Boston, its Environs and Harbour with the Rebels Works Raised Against that Town in 1775[/caption]
Boston Public Schools teachers collaborated on this lesson to engage students with the sweep of American industrial and urban history.
Date: Apr 7 2017
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WordSift.com
WordSift is a Swiss Army Knife of a literacy tool a colleague shared with Rich Cairn, Emerging America director, at the TESOL conference in Seattle in March. Social Studies and Humanities teachers can use this tool to enhance interaction and understanding of longer informational texts.
Options:
First copy your text selection and paste it into WordSift. (We used the Chinese Exclusion…
Date: Jun 14 2017
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Included in the following primary source set are a variety of materials pertaining to immigration from periods of time before, during and after WWI. Immigrants in the United States during this time were encouraged to offer their support in a variety of contexts. The first worldwide war (called the Great War at the time) roiled emotions for immigrants from countries all over the globe.
The set of…