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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. If students wanted to read books outside this collection, they might find them in the local public library.

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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Zinn Education Project

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. The Brown v.

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Students Want a Better Education Experience. First, Teachers Must Master Deeper Learning.

ED Surge

Instead, I decided to try something new and share a story about one of my first experiences with deeper learning during a history course I took in college: My stomach twisted when I saw the 9 inch by 12 inch, black-and-white picture my professor was holding. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. Let’s take maps, for example.

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Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union

Teaching American History

(c1903 from photo taken on May 16, 1861) Library of Congress. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History. All this is not the result of accident.

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee. Might those white parents whose children drew black teachers complain?

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Classroom Based Assessments – Where to start

Doing Social Studies

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. So, you need to design a CBA?