Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The seminar also includes a visit to a local historical site. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. Click here.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. You can plan a virtual event or gathering at a historic site, bookstore, famers’ market, or other public location. In Florida, Gov.

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Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

He graduated from Dyess High School and later returned to perform a concert at the high school gymnasium. For instance, the song “Five Feet High and Rising” was based on the 1937 flood. The history of Dyess Colony, along with the Cash family, hold many stories and learning opportunities.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Instead, he went to law school, graduating as the 2008 housing crisis threw the economy into recession. My name is Susan. What’s your name?

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Teaching Project-Based Learning American History Historic Sites 52

ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives.

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Museum Education Historic Sites History 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One day this spring, Victoria Trice’s high school students in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, peered through virtual reality headsets as part of a lesson on Afrofuturism. When we think about the history curriculum, white people have been told that they’re the most historically important people in the world.

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History American History Teaching K-12 98

Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. Textbooks and high-stakes testing have also long distorted curricula. The anti-history laws and book bans make a bad situation worse, as Bill Bigelow describes in, The Attack on Anti-Racist Teaching Attacks Environmental Justice Teaching.

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