Emerging America

Sign up now for the February 18 workshop in Northampton, Massachusetts - Civic Engagement in Any Subject: Integrating Local History Across the Curriculum - led by veteran teacher-leader Catherine Glennon.
Sponsored by Emerging America and the Collaborative for Educational services.

Stipends and workshop thanks to support from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region.

For details:

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Graham Warder and I wrote a chapter:
Infusing Disability History into the Classroom
for this book: Living with Disabilities in New England, 1630-1930 from Historic Deerfield.

Read our chapter on the Emerging America website: https://lnkd.in/e_iPSPSn

And order the full Dublin Seminar proceedings from Historic Deerfield: https://lnkd.in/ePSqWRab

It is always rewarding to see the long hard work of writing in print.

Read the new chapter: Infusing Disability History into the Classroom
by Rich Cairn & Graham Warder in Living with Disabilities in New England, 1630-1930 from Historic Deerfield's proceedings book from its Dublin Seminar on Living with Disabilities in New England, 1630-1930.

Explore this rich collection of essays focused on disability in early America. The book also features a section on teaching disability history, including a chapter by Emerging America's Rich Cairn and historian Graham Warder.

https://www.emergingamerica.org/blog/infusing-disability-history-classroom

The American Historical Association just published American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools, a landmark, broad picture of curriculum mandates and classroom practices in U.S. public schools.

Download the report pdf free.

American Lesson Plan | American Historical Association American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools reports on insights gathered during a two-year exploration of secondary US history education.

Making History Visible: Creative and Dynamic Learning with LGBTQAI+ and Disabilities Histories

October 21 - 8am-3:30pm at The Vogel in Red Bank NJ - Free

Full-day professional development workshop focused on integrating the New Jersey LGBTQ and Disabilities Inclusive curriculum mandate.

Sponsored by: NJEA Consortium, Count Basie Center for the Arts, Make it Better for Youth, Emerging America and others.

The day will feature keynotes and project focuses for both LGBTQ and Disabilities scholarship and small group workshops to support teacher practice. Keynotes by:
• Eric Marcus - Making Gay History
• Rich Cairn - Emerging America

https://emergingamerica.org/workshops/making-history-visible-creative-and-dynamic-learning-lgbtqai-and-disabilities-histories