History eNews from Emerging America - August 17, 2023

EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 10, Issue 6 for August 17, 2023

In this Issue

• Events @ Emerging America 
• News
• New at the Library of Congress
• Disability History Resources & Updates
• Other Professional Development Events
• Other Resources
• Blog post preview: Accessing Inquiry returns in-person in newly renovated space in Northampton

 

In person: Accessing Inquiry for English Learners course

October & November, Northampton, MA

Download a course flyer to share with colleagues.

Online: PLC for ELL and Social Studies teachers together

PLC interest form 

Miss April Lou, teacher at PS 1, Manhattan, with six Chinese children, recent arrivals from Hong Kong and Formosa, who are holding up placards giving his or her Chinese name both in ideographs and in transliteration and the name to be entered upon the official school records. Fred Palumbo. World Telegram & Sun, New York. 1964. From the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/94512334/.

 

Events @ Emerging America - Info & Registration.

Mark your calendars for these Emerging America courses and workshops. Contact rcairn@collaborative.org or anoyes@collaborative.org.

Graduate Courses - Online

PDPs / or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.  

Scholarships for Winter Courses - Registration fees of $50 and $100

• Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources - Northampton, MA (in person)

  • October 19 and November 16 two-day grad course. 
  • Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.
  • Alison Noyes, Emerging America with Jacqueline LaFrance, ELL specialist. Focus on inquiry strategies that work to support accessible social studies teaching, informed by recent pilot-tested methods developed for social studies teachers working with primary sources with multilingual learners.
  • Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region mini-grant. Register for Accessing Inquiry. 

• Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources (in-person)  March 16 & 30, 2024 two-day workshop. PDPs or optional grad credit.  Register for workshop on teaching Students with Disabilities - in-person.  Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, teacher HEC Academy.  Strategies and tools for inclusion, with new, free K-12 Disability History curriculum.  Further details on Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities.  Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.

  Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources (online)  April 6 - May 17, 2024. PDPs or optional grad credit.  Register for workshop on teaching Students with Disabilities - online. Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, teacher HEC Academy. Focus on strategies and tools for inclusion in civics, history, and social studies.  Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region mini-grant.  Further details on Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities. Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.

 

Presentations and Recordings from Emerging America

Upcoming Presentations and Past Recordings from Emerging America

See list of accessible recordings of past short webinars, poster presentations, and more.

Mark your calendar:

• Empowering Students with Disability History: A Workshop for Special Education Professionals
  • October 18, 2023 4:00-05:00pm (Eastern Time) 
    • Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, HEC Academy 
    • This FREE workshop will aid integration of disability history and supportive attention to disability across the K-12 academic curriculum, by providing basic historical knowledge and curriculum materials.
    • Register here. 

 

• Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the Social Studies 
  • October 19, 7-8pm Eastern Time - National Council for the Social Studies professional development webinar. Register for NCSS webinar. 

 

• New Jersey Council for the Social Studies Conference
  • October 23 - New Brunswick. Strategies and Tools to Integrate Disability into History, Civics, Government, and Human Rights. Register for NJCSS conference. 

 

• National Council for the Social Studies - Nashville - December 1-3, 2023.
  • Info on the NCSS 2023 NCHE Conference. 
    • Rich Cairn, Emerging America will present on the Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum
    • Alison Noyes, English Learner Collaborations/MCSS will present on 'What Do ESL Teachers Wish You Knew' 
  • Watch for other highlights on inclusion as they develop. 

 

News

• The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is releasing its free curriculum Investigating History. Ancient civilizations around the globe (grades 6-7) and U.S. history to the Civil War (grade 5). 
• Massachusetts Legislature increases the Civics Project Trust Fund to $2.5 million. See macivicsforall.org/. 
• 2023 Massachusetts Civics Project Showcase - YouTube overview. 
• Mark your calendars: National Civic Learning Week 2024 - March 11-15. 
• Get an update from CivXNow on efforts to pass federal civics education legislation. 
• The next issue of History eNews is September 13. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by September 6. 

 

New at the Library of Congress

• American Archive of Public Broadcasting - new features
• Ecology: A New Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress
• Introducing Massachusetts Newspapers on Chronicling America. 
• Center for the Book. Find your state affiliate. 
• COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Prints and Photographs. 

United States of Trauma. (2021). Steve Brodner. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021630871/.

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: Portrait Signs - A Brilliant Idea (ASL and museum tours) 
• Discussion: The Declaration of Independence and Slavery
• Discussion: How the St. Louis World’s Fair Celebrated America by Dehumanizing Others 

• You may link directly to these resources. 

• Album: Exploring Child Labor (Mid 1800's to Early 1900's)
• Album: Tribute to Robert Oppenheimer
• Album: American (Religious) Awakenings
• Album: Radical Reconstruction and American Democracy (Primary Source Learning Activity)
• Album: First Transcontinental Railroad

Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/

• Reflections from the Library: Interesting Finds to Deepen Analysis
• Teaching Scientific Literacy: The Case of the Scattered Sand
• Can You Believe Your Eyes
• I observed, I reflected, I questioned… - Einstein Fellow, Jacqueline Katz 
• Innovations with Digitized Newspapers
• Launching Units with Primary Source Phenomena: Bacteria-coated Popcorn
• Launching Student Learning About Women’s Suffrage with a Suffragist’s Poetry

 

Disability History Resources & Updates

• National Endowment for the Humanities Virtual Bookshelf: Disability Pride Month

  Screen capture from Crip Camp. (2020). https://cripcamp.com/.    PARC v. Pennsylvania: Pioneering the Right to Education for Children with Cognitive Impairments (1971) - National History Day award winner from Ottoson Middle School in Arlington, MA.  A Closer Look at the Life of Elizabeth Pitkin Porter (1719-1798) mental health in the 18th century - Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum - Hadley, Massachusetts.  The disabled Founding Father who put the ‘United’ in ‘United States’ - Washington Post, July 31, 2023.  Hannah Carson: “Like a Fire in All My Bones” mid-19th century disabled black prophet. - Library of Congress blog.  Choosing children’s books that include and affirm disability experiences. - KQED.  Repairhistory.org - Putting disability histories on the map. View and contribute to RepairHistory.  Teaching Project: Post-1945 Disability History of Japan - Timeline We Are America - Students telling stories of identity. Different Abilities stories.  Judy Heumann Tribute - Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services.

 

Other Events

Online unless noted. “Hybrid” events are both virtual and in-person.

• Join a virtual book club reading books about George Washington and about the Founding Mothers. By Middle Tennessee State University. 
• August 23, 3-4pm - Virtual - Screening and discussion of film on unjustly executed Sacco and Vanzetti. Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. 
• October 14 and November 4 - History on the Go - Trails: Western Massachusetts historical sites. Info from the Pioneer Valley History Network. 
• October 22-23 & November 7 - Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies Fall Conference. 
• October 23 - New Jersey Council for the Social Studies Fall Conference. 
• National Council for the Social Studies Fall Webinars. 

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Other Resources

• TPS Micro-credentials - CitizenU. Online PD. 
• Register for the new Civics Pathways professional development from Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. 
• Investigating History (grades 5-7 curriculum) Professional Learning Community Interest Form - Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education. 
• The Right to Vote: The Role of States and the U.S. Constitution - lessons and resources from the Gilder Lehrman Institute. 
• PBS NewsHour Classroom. Journalism in Action. 
• UnErasing LGBTQ History and Identities: A Podcast for Teachers.
• U.S. Supreme Court Collection - Retro Report - short videos. 
• How ELLs Can Be an Asset in History Class. Edutopia. 

 

New Blog Post:  Accessing Inquiry returns in-person in newly renovated space in Northampton

By Alison Noyes

We are excited about bringing educators together face-to-face again in the newly renovated learning space at CES with added presentation features, and access to a variety of informal meeting spaces for project work time, as well as an outdoor patio we can access for our lunch break. (Boxed lunch will be provided.) 

Thanks to generous support from the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region program, managed by Waynesburg University, the workshop will cost $100 per participant (a 65% discount)–$85 for educators from CES member districts.  

Link to the new blog post.

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