New machine to speed up statistics of census of 1940. Washington, D.C. Harris & Ewing, photographers. Library of Congress. 

There are two opportunities to meet with the Teaching Disability History Interest Group March 7-9 at the NCHE conference in Cleveland. Share updates of state and national efforts. What are you doing? What would you like to do? 

Participants in Thursday's Library of Congress TPS Consortium meeting can gather at the end of the day when Consortium Interest Groups meet. 

All conference attendees are welcome to an informal conversation of group, Saturday 12:30-1:45. We will gather on Hilton 5th floor by the escalators outside Superior A after the keynote. (Near conference registration area.) We may migrate to somewhere we can talk. Bring your lunch if you like. (You might try the Noshery off the 1st floor lobby.) Look for Rich Cairn.

Email rcairn@collaborative.org if you have questions or to tell us to look for you. 

  Special Education    Social Studies/History    Disability    Disability History  

• Empowering Students with Disability History: A Workshop for Special Education Professionals

• January 30, 2024 5:00-6:00pm (Eastern Time) 
• Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, HEC Academy 
• This FREE workshop will support increased attention to disability across the K-12 academic curriculum, by providing basic historical knowledge, free curriculum materials, and strategies for collaboration with elementary teachers and Social Studies and English Language Arts teachers across grades.
• Tour the free Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum - 23 lessons using 250 primary sources. 
• Register.

  Special Education    Social Studies/History    Disability History    Disability    Inclusion  

The "Disability History" group has become, "Teaching Disability History." The new title accompanies the launch on February 8 of a new bi-monthly interest group discussion of educators and activists working at the local, state, and national levels. 

Topics to discuss will include: state mandates to teach disability history, exemplary disability history standards, effective programs at the state level, National History Day projects on disability history, practicing disability in Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, grass roots campaigns, the future of disability history, and more! 

Join this discussion group and add your ideas. (Click the "Join Group" button above.) 

To sign up for the bi-monthly discussion, sign up using this Google form. 

Comment below to give input on the group and to nominate an image from the Library of Congress to use as our new icon for the group in the TPS Teachers Network. You might check out the many images from the Library in the Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum. (The unit plans all include thumbnail images.) Or email Rich Cairn - rcairn@collaborative.org. 

  English/Language Arts    Social Studies/History    Special Education    U.S. History    Disability History    Disability    Disabled    Disabilities    American History    Culturally Relevant Pedagogy  

Join us online Wednesday to meet some filmmakers:

• We Still Here introduces the incredible youth of Comerío, Puerto Rico navigating the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, a disaster that brought an unprecedented level of devastation to an island already in an economic and political crisis. (54 minutes)
• May 12: Far East, Deep South follows a Chinese American family’s search for their roots that leads to Mississippi, where they uncover surprising family revelations and the racially complex history of Chinese immigrants in the segregated South. (76 minutes)

Discuss and practice classroom applications for these additional films:

• May 19: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail tells the incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, NY. Accused of mortgage fraud, Abacus becomes the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges during the 2008 financial crisis. (85 minutes) 

We invite participants to join us in exploring these inquiries:

• What is non-extractive storytelling and how it is possible in our own work?
• How do communities and community members tell their stories?
• How do communities advocate for just storytelling?

Register here. Participants will get automatic private access to films. We will not be screening the films during the institute. Here's the online institute schedule to share widely! See you online! Email Tuyen at tntran@ucdavis.edu with any questions.