Date: Jan 12 2022
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol.
Date: Jan 5 2022
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Guest Post by Kelley Brown and Laurie Risler, creators of History's Mysteries
Happy New Year to all of you!
We wanted to share some special and great news with you.
1. We have four NEW units and three NEW "Introduction to Inquiry" mysteries available for use on our History's Mysteries website!Our newest units include:
Grade 2: How does culture im…
Date: Dec 8 2021
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol.
Date: Dec 8 2021
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Building Student Engagement in a Special Education Classroom
Originally published by the Right Question Institute, in the Teaching + Learning Experts in the Field resources series. Republished here with permission.
by Esther LeeAs a special education teacher in New York City, I had gotten used to my heterogeneous classroom of kids. Last year, however, I was taken aback by my classro…
Date: Nov 10 2021
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New Mini-Units Will Integrate Disability History across K-12 Curriculum; Seeking teachers to pilot mini-units.
Free Teaching with Primary Sources Micro-credentials - Barat Foundation’s Citizen U micro-credentials on using primary sources, hosted by the National Education Association (NEA), and created in partnership with Emerging America, and Inquiry in the Upper Midwest. Includes Universal Desig…
Date: Nov 3 2021
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A Transformative Story for Humanity
The disability rights movement has made enormous strides in the American story, going from a group whose very right to exist was questioned, to reconceptualization of the needs and rights of veterans with disabilities ... to a modern movement for full inclusion. Helping all students understand this history, key issues in the present, and possibilities in t…
Date: Oct 13 2021
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol.
Date: Oct 4 2021
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In a 10th grade classroom, a newly arrived student from Sudan, a returning student from a migrant worker family, and a student whose family came from Cambodia in the 1970s are among the 25 students in a US History class. These three students have been silent in all previous class discussions. The teacher knows their WIDA English-Language-Development proficiency scores.
Date: Sep 20 2021
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November, 2021
Here we are in a new school year of education during a pandemic. This page is being updated less frequently, since by now we have more experience than we had when this resource was begun. Still, new resources are being published all the time, and teachers around the US are facing circumstances that are continuing to change. The exhaustion of teachers is now a factor as large as…
Date: Sep 8 2021
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Develop a Mystery for Your Own K-5 Classroom
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NEWS
“Closing the Gap in Civics for Students with Disabilities in Classrooms from K-12” – Read Rich Cairn’s blog post.
Massachusetts Civic Literacy Coalition Policy and Advocacy Fellow Allison Pao seeks Mass Civics teachers for a survey and/or interviews. (With…