Translate

English Dutch French German Italian Portuguese Russian Spanish

Search

History eNews from Emerging America - December 11, 2019

Published on Fri, 12/13/2019

eNews - Oxbow Image

EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 6, Issue 39 for December 11, 2019

 

NEWS

  • NEW: Accessing Civic Engagement with Students with Disabilities - March 13, 8:30-3:30 - Hudson High School. This Emerging America workshop with strategies, tools, and plans for full inclusion of students receiving Special Education services or with 504 plans in civic engagement projects, grades 8 & 9-12. $40. Watch History eNews for details! 
  • Stanford History Education Group - Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum. Free lessons and assessments to help teach students to evaluate online information and its effects on them, their communities, and the world. 
  • Library of Congress new online exhibition:“Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words.”
  • Politicraft - new civic engagement card game. NCSS promotion, only $14.00 per deck till 12/20. Enter promo code PCNCSS19 at checkout. Website.
  •  

Accessing Civic Engagement 

with Students with Disabilities 

Teacher teams at the 2018 Civic Education Institute worked with high school student leaders to design new 8th grade civics courses. 

 

EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info & Registration.

Contact rcairn@collaborative.org.

 

HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION COURSES

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

  • Integrating Civic Engagement Projects Across the Curriculum - Instructor: Rich Cairn - Develop project plans under 2018 civic engagement legislation and History and Social Science standards. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
    • January 21 & February 25, Northampton 
  • ONLINE - Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources - Instructors Rich Cairn & Alison Noyes. Meets state PD requirement, with attention to teachers of History and Social Science and the Humanities. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
    • February 4 to March 16 - Fully ONLINE
  • Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources - Instructors: Rich Cairn & Alison Noyes. Meets state PD requirement, with attention to teachers of History and Social Science and the Humanities. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
    • NEW DATES - March 3 & March 31 - CES, Northampton 
  • America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond - Instructor: Kelley Brown. Scholars Peter Carroll and Sebastiaan Faber. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
    • April 3-4 - Melrose High School

 

NEW RESOURCES AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

  • TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with experience working with primary sources are welcome to join this network

Featured this week - YOU MUST LOGIN FIRST FOR THESE LINKS TO WORK:

 

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

  • Sign Up for a Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop Using the Rosa Parks Papers
  • Happy Birthday to the Amazing Periodic Table!

 

OTHER EVENTS: 

  • January 18 - 2020 SOURCES Conference (Orlando, FL) - At this free conference, presenters will provide strategies for using primary sources to help K-12 students engage in learning, develop critical thinking skills, and build content knowledge - Information and Registration 
  • March 17 - 8am - Bill of Rights Institute: President and the Constitution: Presidential Powers (Windsor Locks, CT) - Information and Registration 
  • July 13-17 - LBJ Presidential Library: Summer Institute (University of Texas - Austin) - Includes housing and stipend - Information and Application 

 

RESOURCES:

 

**********************************

EmergingAmerica.org History eNews welcomes YOUR news & events. 

Published Wednesdays; deadline Sunday noon. Archived at http://EmergingAmerica.org/blog

- Reply to rcairn@collaborative.org to be removed from this list. 

Register for CES events.

Teacher-created lessons, primary source sets, & assessments at: http://EmergingAmerica.org

Follow Emerging America on Twitter and Facebook.  

Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress.


 

Categories: 
Tags: 

Karen Albano

former History eNews Editor, Emerging America
Karen Albano worked with Emerging America from 2015-2020, contributing to many facets of the program including developing curriculum, improving the accessibility of the website to educators, overseeing social media outreach, and editing the History eNews.