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Current Workshops

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visits a school for students with disabilities.
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This one-hour workshop empowers Special Education teachers to foster supportive attention to disability and to support integration of disability history across the K-12 academic curriculum, by providing basic historical knowledge, free curriculum materials, and strategies for collaboration with elementary teachers and Social Studies and English Language Arts teachers across grades.
Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources
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This course introduces exemplars of best practice pedagogy for English Learners in History and Social Studies classrooms. It demonstrates dual-language-learner-friendly approaches to primary and secondary sources using examples from the history of immigration and of foreign language communities in the U.S..
A diverse group of seven high school students lean over to study several documents laid out on a table in the library.
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Emerging America and the National Council for the Social Studies present a webinar to strengthen high quality instruction of students with disabilities.  Register with NCSS. Free.  History and civics inclusion specialist, and lead curriculum author Rich Cairn leads this exciting and practical webinar. October 19, 2023 - 7-8pm Eastern Time 
102nd NCSS Annual Conference, December 1-3, 2023, Nashville, TN. Artworks shows a fiddle.
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National Council for the Social Studies Conference - December 1-3, 2023 - Nashville Mark your calendars! Info on NCSS Conference.  Join thousands of colleagues from across the U.S. at this powerful and engaging event. Hundreds of workshops and posters. An outstanding line-up of speakers and resources. Watch for updates! 
Image of course poster with title and collage of primary sources
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Social Studies and Humanities pose distinct challenges for struggling learners. Extensive discipline-specific vocabulary, difficult informational texts –including complex primary sources– and a need for background knowledge can be barriers. Yet the authentic sources, important ideas and connections to issues of these subjects also offer virtual tools for differentiation and potent means to motivate students.

Upcoming Workshops


This one-hour workshop empowers Special Education teachers to foster supportive attention to disability and to support integration of disability history across…
This course introduces exemplars of best practice pedagogy for English Learners in History and Social Studies classrooms. It demonstrates dual-language-learner-…
Emerging America and the National Council for the Social Studies present a webinar to strengthen high quality instruction of students with disabilities.  Regi…