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In celebration of our new course on teaching disability history in the K-12 classroom, we invited Wendy Harris, a teacher at a school for the Deaf with expertise in teaching DeafBlind students, to share her thoughts about disability with us. The topic of Deafness as a disability gives the opportunity to begin with an exploration of the conception of DISABILITY itself, and the question of what abil…
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September 23-24 Massachusetts DESE Virtual Civic Engagement Conference. Emerging America workshop on students with disabilities and civic engagement Sept. 24 - 6:30pm.
NERC online - October 4-14
The Library of Congress updated its Teacher's Page: www.loc.gov/programs/teachers. Watch recorded intro webinar.
History's Mysteries K-5 Curriculum - investigate migration, citizenship, the First Amendm…
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 25 for September 2, 2020
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BLACK COMMUNITIES AND AGENCY - Online fall grad course with Kelley Brown and Amilcar Shabazz! Info & Registration.
New Grade 1 lessons deepen the exploration of George Washington in Emerging America’s free K-5 curriculum, History’s Mysteries: "How do communities make good decisions?" and "What makes a go…
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 24 for August 19, 2020
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New Grade 1 lessons deepen the exploration of George Washington in Emerging America's free K-5 curriculum, History's Mysteries: "How do communities make good decisions?" and "What makes a good leader?"
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Emerging America FALL COURSES now open for registration!
Leadership for Remote Learning by Rebecca Mazur, CES, and Rebecca Woodland, UMass Amherst - identifies ways to meet five needs of teachers in the shifting school planning environment.
2020 Immigrant Student Success Toolkit offers links to social studies teaching resources with tips for remote learning strategies to su…
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NOTE: First developed at Emerging America, History's Mysteries has become Private i History Detectives, a product of iCivics.
History's Mysteries K-5 Curriculum
The kids loved this! They were very interested in the slideshow the entire time. The narration made it seem like a movie. They asked a lot of thoughtful questions and had lots of good discussions.…
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 22 for July 15, 2020
History eNews from Emerging America - July 15, 2020
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 20 for June 17, 2020
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COMPLETE THE CIVICS EDUCATION SURVEY - Boston University & CIRCLE at Tufts are evaluating civics education in Massachusetts.
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 19 for June 3, 2020
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Announcing: Teaching Civic Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions in Today’s Classroom: A Teacher Leadership Institute – remarkable professional development program from Western Mass Writing Project (WMWP). Online. July and fall. Up to 4 grad credits. Apply to WMWP.
Mass Civic Learning Coalition (MCLC) seeks educato…