EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 11, Issue 4 for April 18, 2024
In this Issue
- Events @ Emerging America
- News
- New at the Library of Congress
- Disability History Resources & Updates
- Other Professional Development Events
- Other Resources
- April blog preview.
GBH News: Teaching disability history in schools is 'long overdue,' advocates say
Quick Quiz: How much do you know about disability history?
April Blog Post
Courses & Workshops at Emerging America - Info & Registration.
Syllabi available at link above. Questions? Contact rcairn@collaborative.org or anoyes@collaborative.org.
PDPs / or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.
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Humanizing the History of Genocide in the Classroom - Northampton, MA (in person)
- July 15 - 8:30am - 3pm - CES, Northampton, Massachusetts.
- Workshop is full. There is a waiting list. Register
- Led by 20+ year genocide education teacher Kate Todhunter.
- Gain materials and resources on the Holocaust and Armenian, Khmer Rouge, and Rwandan genocides and legacy of colonialization in the U.S.
- Co-sponsored by the Northampton Public Schools.
- Supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
- Massachusetts teachers complete summer program and school-year sessions and project for a $525 honorarium and 15 content-area PDPs.
- Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.
Webinars and Conference Sessions from Emerging America
See complete list of Upcoming Presentations, Past Recordings and more.
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Landmark College Institute for Research and Training - Summer Institute for Educators
- June 25-27, 2024 - Putney, Vermont - Register
- The program includes a workshop led by Rich Cairn, Emerging America:
- Disability History and Special Education.
- The institute was established in 2001 to pioneer LD research, discover innovative strategies and practices, and improve teaching and learning outcomes for students with learning disabilities (like dyslexia), ADHA, and autism, and educators in high school and college settings.
News
- 2024-2025 Civics Pathways schedule - free professional development - Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE).
- See the dynamic new strategic vision in this video from the National Council for History Education.
- Teach Democracy - Civic Action Project student multimedia contest - due by May 16.
- America’s Field Trip - student contest from America 250 - due by May 17.
- The Massachusetts Civics Project Showcases registration is open. Students share and learn from peers. In-person showcases May 28, June 3 & 7 - DESE. May 20 Generation Citizen showcase advisor registration.
- DESE received 84 applications for 2024 Civics Education grants.
- Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources 2024-2027 grants - apply by May 21.
- iCivics seeks input via a survey on how to address challenges to teaching U.S. history.
- The next issue of History eNews is May 16. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by May 8.
New at the Library of Congress
What’s New?
- Video of tribute performances as Elton John and Bernie Taupin win the Gershwin Prize.
- At the Table with: Mary Church Terrell - virtual exhibit.
- Fall 2024 Teaching with Primary Sources Internship Application - due May 17.
- Political Parties: A New Primary Source Set for Teachers from the Library of Congress
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1860 Electoral College Map - Political Parties Primary Source Set - Library of Congress. |
TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with interest in working with primary sources are welcome to join this network. Featured this issue - (log in to see Discussions; no log-in needed for Albums):
- Discussion:
- Historic American Buildings Measured Drawings: Have a favorite from your state?
- Preserving Black History in Rural New England with Community Webs
You may link directly to these resources.
- Album: The Panama Canal, from dream to reality
- Album: Virtual Book Club: Invention of Yesterday
- Album: Harvey Houses and The Harvey Girls
- Album: Cherry Mine Disaster
- Album: Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism - Cast of Characters
- Album: Abolitionist Cartoons and Images
- Plentiful Country -- the Myth of the Irish Immigrant and the Making of New York
- Learning about a new influential designer (1937) - Alexey Brodovitch
- Music as Resistance During Women’s History Month: Suffrage Songs
- Teddy and Taft
- AI is creating fake historical photos, and that's a problem
- Empowering Communities with Local History
- Earth Day April 22, 2024
Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
- Exploring Eclipses Through Primary Sources: Earth, Moon & Sun
- Thomas Jefferson and the 1811 Constitution Day Eclipse
- A Path to a Wonderful Spring Break: Activities Featuring Primary Sources
- Primary Sources from the Cutting Room Floor: Extending the Child Labor Primary Source Set
- Learn How to Bring in the Nature of Science using Historical Primary Sources: Join us at NSTA
- Topical Guides to the Chronicling America Newspaper Database
- Women’s History Teaching Ideas for the K-5 Teacher
Disability History Resources & Updates
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The new #TeachDisabilityHistory video from Easterseals Massachusetts.
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- Easterseals Massachusetts #TeachDisabilityHistory campaign upgraded its website and short video with support from a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region grant.
- April 23 - 6:30-7:30pm EDT - virtual 2024 National Community Event - American Association of People with Disabilities.
- Specific Learning Disability Evaluation Principles and Standards - Learning Disabilities Association of America.
- Follow the 2024 Caravan for Disability Freedom and Justice!
- Apply to the Disability History Association to serve on the board of directors.
- Crip Cinema Archive.
- Affirming Autism: How to Choose Books for Girls Who are Autistic - School Library Journal.
- Women Enabled International advances human rights at the intersection of gender and disability.
- 11 Facts about Stuttering - DoSomething.org.
- Justice Department to Publish Final Rule to Strengthen Web and Mobile App Access for People with Disabilities.
- With Justice for All: A Social History of Disability in America by Jack Trammel (2023) Common Ground Books.
Other Events
Online unless noted. “Hybrid” events are both virtual and in-person.
- April 24 - 7:30pm - The Life and Times of Ida B. Wells - Michelle Duster - National Council for History Education (NCHE).
- April 24 - 2pm - Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States Lara Langer Cohen - American Antiquarian Society (AAS).
- April 25 - 7:30pm - Revolutionary Women: Unveiling Their Stories Leading Up to and During the American Revolution - Molly dePippo - NCHE.
- April 26 - National Historic Marker Day - Curriculum & Register your service-learning project.
- May 1 - 7:30pm - On The Edges of Empire; Women in Colonial St. Louis - NCHE.
- May 2 - 10am - 4pm - Open Books, Open Minds: A Celebration of Literacy - National Council of Teachers of English.
- May 2-3 - Hybrid symposium - Historic Children's Voices, 1799-1899 - AAS.
- May 4 - HistoryFest Pioneer Valley - Westfield State University.
- May 6 - webinar - Reparations and Climate Justice - Zinn Education Project.
- May 9 - 8:30am - 2pm - in-person at Bridgewater State University - Civics Education Conference.
- May 16 - June 1 - Northampton - Commemorative events of 1874 Mill River Flood - Historic Northampton.
- June 3 - Devens - Massachusetts History Conference.
Summer 2024 - All are in-person unless noted
- June 17 - August 30 - For Educators, By Educators - develop classroom resources - National Women’s History Museum.
- June 24 - virtual Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Summer Fuse event - Library of Congress.
- July 7-10 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - Teacher Symposium - Gilder Lehrman Institute.
- July 15-19 - Summer Institute For Climate Change Education - hybrid with regional cohorts.
- July 22-26 - Philadelphia - Comics & Graphic Novels - University of the Arts.
- July 29 - August 2 - Philadelphia - Nature by Design - University of the Arts.
- Summer workshop dates across the U.S. - Facing History and Ourselves.
Other Resources
- The Rural Experience in America podcasts - National Council for History Education.
- iCivics released its video series The Constitution Explained in Spanish and English.
- County, State, and Local Governments. iCivics.
- Reproductive Rights Primary Source Set - American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
- The Rise of the Meme in Politics Today - video from Retro Report.
- Understanding and Countering Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Schools - Learning for Justice.
- Teach Climate Justice Campaign - Zinn Education Project.
- Teaching With Primary Sources: Shock & Outrage in 1901 Booker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt - QFT & historical newspapers.
- Teaching with the Georgia Historical Marker Program - Self-paced virtual course - Georgia Historical Society.
- Videos on Germany’s Weimar Republic - Choices Program, Brown University.
- Women’s History is American History - Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
Blog Preview: GBH News: Teaching disability history in schools is 'long overdue,' advocates say
In this article, teachers, community advocates, and resource leaders comment on developments in the growing field. Follow links to legislation from multiple states.
In the blog, find the introduction to a quick quiz of your knowledge of disability history, and follow the link to take the quiz. GBH based the quiz on landmark work by the #TeachDisabilityHistory campaign of Easterseals Massachusetts.
Continued…
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