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

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. 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. My desire to know exploded.

History 104
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Black Teachers: A Pedagogy of Organized Resistance

Zinn Education Project

Jarvis Givens is a professor of education and faculty affiliate in the department of African & African American studies at Harvard University. As an interdisciplinary scholar, he specializes in 19th and 20th century African American history, history of education, and theories of race and power in education.

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There Is An Elephant in the Classroom and It Taught Me About My Black History.

ED Surge

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

History 107
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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

ED Surge

I didn't know about the history of Hawaii and what we had done to have it become part of the United States. They might have been in AP African American history. When I learned this in my 30s, my brain was hopefully fully developed by that time. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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Celebrating Black Joy

C3 Teachers

As I walk down my hallways, I gaze at my students’ Black History Month posters that cover the walls and I realize how I’ve changed since my early years. But as I walk by these images, I wonder how the fresh-faced teacher who promised to never “teach” Black History Month has now decorated the whole school with Black images.

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The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member!

ASHP CML

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 14:23 The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Keep reading for the job description and application information.

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

4QM Teaching

Generic accounts of thinking skills often treat document reading and analysis as the bread-and-butter of history teaching and learning. This mistake — the narrowing of history pedagogy to “document analysis” — reflects another mistake: confusing novices for experts. — that’s how we learn history.