Date: Sep 21 2023
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol.
Date: Sep 5 2023
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Emerging America 2023 Survey on the Teaching of Disability History
By Rich Cairn, Emerging America
At the end of the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years, Emerging America widely promoted an online survey of teachers to discover how much they teach disability history. Though the response has been small, the results offer intriguing insights.
The 27 2022-2023 respondents represented 7…
Date: Aug 17 2023
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol.
Date: Aug 11 2023
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Celebrating A Natural and Beautiful Part of Human Diversity
Guest post by Stephanie Polito
July marks the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the landmark legislation passed on July 26, 1990, that broke down barriers to inclusion in society. Disability Pride Month was first celebrated that same year, taking place in Boston, Massachusetts in the US. Celebrations follow, with th…
Date: Aug 1 2023
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Reform to Equal Rights is the first ever K-12 Disability History Curriculum. The curriculum supports history and civics teachers in all settings. Lessons can stand on their own. Or teachers can integrate selections from the 200+ primary sources, and/or accessible activities, into what they already teach on topics such as impacts of wars, immigration, social movements, and changing roles of governm…
Date: Jul 31 2023
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Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources will be offered at the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) in Northampton, Massachusetts in a two-session format, meeting Thursdays a month apart, October 19 and November 16.
Multilingual learners can benefit from primary source activities, and all students can find compelling questions in the history of immigrants…
Date: Jun 17 2023
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First posted to the TPS Teachers Network by Laurie Risler, and published as an Emerging America blog post on February 5, 2021 with the title, Using History's Mysteries to Teach African American History (guest post).
Update: in 2022, iCivics incorporated Laurie Risler and Kelley Brown's groundbreaking elementary inquiry curriculum into their array of teaching resources under the name Pri…
Date: May 19 2023
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 10, Issue 5 for May 19, 2023
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Date: Apr 27 2023
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Every unit of the Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum includes an introduction to the topic of disability, including strategies to address disrespectful vocabulary.
There are many words about disability that are offensive in today's usage but that are unavoidable in primary sources–even current sources. (Think for example of the term, "dumb," which once meant n…
Date: Apr 20 2023
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol.