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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history.

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Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

4QM Teaching

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. Jon and I believe very strongly that students in social studies classes should engage with meaningful artifacts created by the people we’re studying. Now confess: you didn’t learn about the American Revolution that way. Plan it out.