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Together: Using Inquiry to Teach the Armenian Genocide

C3 Teachers

with Tara DeVay In late summer 2015, as I prepared for my third-year teaching eighth-grade social studies in rural Western New York, I balanced many of the challenges that young teachers do: coaching, building curriculum, and searching for more meaningful ways to teach content. The routine of covering material felt stagnant.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Coordinators Co-sponsors Below are the 2023 co-sponsors. Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. Students can be invited to share the local history of the respective site you select. Sojourn to the Past students shared the Jim Crow history of swimming pools in Youngstown.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. Or march to a local civic building. Students can be invited to share the local history of the respective site you select. The group can be any size. Determine type of action. Students as Historians.