Category: multicultural education
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Teaching Indigenous Peoples & The Reoccupation of Alcatraz
This week’s episode of the Teaching History Her Way Podcast begins the conversation of teaching about Indigenous Peoples in American History. Over the years I’ve done my best to teach about Indigenous Peoples, but it wasn’t until I took a long, hard look at my teaching and curriculum that I’ve been able to improve and…
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To Begin the School Year, Turn Inward
Yesterday was the first time I’ve seen my colleagues in my school building since March. I can’t even begin to tell you how it fed my heart and soul to see them in person! But being together after a long quarantine summer also means that we continue our individual and collective work as anti-racist educators…
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History in the Kitchen: The Declaration, Equality, & Mac and Cheese
Today’s at History in the Kitchen we took a look at three documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Sentiments, and Frederick Douglass’s speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Similar to a lesson I teach in the classroom, I think it is vitally important to reiterate the ideals of the…
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Race & Judicial Review
After our study of Marbury v. Madison, we have always had students look at judicial review through a modern lens. For many years, students studied and argued federal Supreme Court cases related to children and education. They could choose to work with cases such as Tinker v. DesMoines or NJ v. TLO. This year, however,…
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Flipgrid & a Martin Luther King, Jr. Lesson
A few weeks ago, thanks to the Twitter universe, I stumbled upon an educational tool called “Flipgrid” (@flipgrid – sidenote, their team looks like a hoot based upon their Twitter cover photo.) Flipgrid’s website touts their product as: “Flipgrid is where your students go to share ideas and learn together. It’s where students amplify and…
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Lesson Plan: Gender Fluidity in Colonial History
In keeping with my philosophy to make sure all students feel included in American history class, I tweeted Katherine Ott (@amhistcurator)for inspiration. I wanted to know how to include my students who are part of the LGBTQA+ spectrum in the story, and since #LGBThistory as part of the story in the Colonial Era isn’t…
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Invisible Founders
American history is, and should be treated as everyone’s history. Very often in my class, I remind students that we give more than enough air-time to who we call “rich white guys,” the men who are the face of America’s founding. While these men such as Jefferson, Hamilton, and Washington were absolutely imperative in the…
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Women of Washington’s Era
“Remember the ladies” is perhaps one of the most famous lines by a woman of the Revolutionary Era. Abagail Adams pleaded with her husband John that women be included in some way in the new government. Abigail’s station in life afforded her the privilege of being able to express her desire for rights as other…
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Invisible Founders Part 3: Hercules & Assessment
It has been quite a week in my history class and I have so much to share. The students in my class worked on completing their study of Hercules and the book A Birthday Cake for George Washington. The final piece of the unit was to study the real Hercules. I wanted students to find…
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Invisible Founders Part 2, A Birthday Cake for George Washington
Wow! The Birthday Cake for George Washington lesson has really taken off! Today, students held a “silent discussion” about the book and the NPR article published about the book that students read the night before (you can read the article here). To hold a silent discussion, I posted three pieces of chart paper around the…