Guest post by Max Chervin Bridge
Choices Program: Disability Histories Now
Published on Tue, 05/21/2024
Published on Tue, 05/21/2024
Guest post by Max Chervin Bridge
Published on Tue, 04/30/2024
Guest post by Jacqueline LaFrance
Published on Sat, 04/06/2024
See the article at Teaching disability history in schools is 'long overdue,' advocates say. Teachers, community advocates, and resource leaders comment on developments in the growing field. Follow links to legislation from multiple states.
Published on Wed, 03/13/2024
Purchase this new book on Teaching with Primary Sources from Teachers College Press.
Published on Thu, 01/25/2024
Post by Rich Cairn and Ross Newton
"Court cases are great for teaching history because they often deal with concrete details from everyday life."
- Ross Newton, High School History teacher, HEC Academy.
Published on Wed, 01/10/2024
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.
Published on Mon, 12/11/2023
Effective implementation for all learners, especially the 7.5 million Special Education students in the United States, requires careful consideration of accessibility. In particular, educators must pay attention to critical accessibility principles:
Published on Tue, 11/07/2023
The English Learner Collaborations project has added new lesson plan examples to the Emerging America website that demonstrate the use of scaffolds and supports for English Learners.
Published on Tue, 10/17/2023
Visit the new online exhibit: How Civil War Veterans Transformed Disability.
Published on Tue, 09/05/2023
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.
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