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Disability History at the National Council for the Social Studies - Boston

Published on Sun, 11/03/2024

Explore Disability History at the NCSS Conference

Scheduled workshops on disability history: 

The team from the #TeachDisabilityHistory Easterseals and Emerging America – Desi Forte, Rich Cairn, and young adult disability activists – will co-present a workshop: How to integrate voices of people with disabilities into the curriculum. They will demonstrate activities and curriculum for sharing disability history with broad audiences. Friday, November 22 - 3:00-3:55pm - Rm 308, Hynes Convention Center. 

 

Emerging America's Inclusive History News - November 2024

Published on Fri, 11/01/2024

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

November Featured Blog Posts:

  • News of the Field
  • Disability History News & Resources
  • Events @ Emerging America 
  • Other Professional Development Events
  • Teaching Resources 
  • New at the Library of Congress 

 

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.

Disability History in State Standards and Mandates - and Other Tools

Published on Wed, 01/10/2024

Check Out New Resources and Tools at EmergingAmerica.org 

Emerging America recently added useful functions to our website. At the suggestion of friends at the #TeachDisabilityHistory campaign, we added an FAQ page to the Reform to Equal Rights curriculum. And we added more lessons as well as search tools to the Teaching Resources page.

Reform to Equal Rights - Disability History Curriculum

The Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum includes 250 primary sources in 23 lessons in seven units. Inclusive lessons feature Universal Design for Learning strategies and exemplary assessments. Lesson content facilitates integration into many regular K-12 topics. Skill and language development addresses C-3 History and Social Science frameworks as well as Educating for American Democracy Roadmap themes. Developed with Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant with additional support from Mass Humanities. 
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