Email rcairn@collaborative.org for the meeting zoom links and agenda. 

• We will hear brief presentations from: 
• Max Chervin Bridge and Kevin Hoskins from Brown University's Choices Program will discuss disability justice, intersectionality, and related recent scholarship in disability history. They will briefly introduce the new Resource Guide on Disability History and Studies from Choices. The guide collected a diverse array of lesson plans, online blogs, academic essays, virtual exhibits, podcasts, short documentaries, and more that point educators to some of the core ideas informing the work of disability history and studies, contemporary disability activism, and anti-ableist pedagogy. See a blog post by Max Chervin Bridge on the guide. 
• Rich Cairn from Emerging America at the Collaborative for Educational Services will discuss the design principles that shaped the 2023 K-12 Disability History Curriculum: Reform to Equal Rights (RER). A national advisory group of teachers, historians, and disability advocates created these principles for RER, focused on supporting agency in the presentation of history and in classroom practice. The curriculum comprehensively addresses national standards for history, social studies and civics. And it emphasizes student inquiry grounded in 250+ primary sources and fully inclusive civic engagement. See a blog post on the design principles. 
• Breakout discussion on the following questions will follow the presentations:
• What principles should guide us when we create and share disability history curricula? 
• How can teaching disability history best incorporate disability justice? 
• What are the important commonalities and differences between disability history and disability studies? How can we communicate that to K-12 teachers? 
• What disability history stories should we share with students?

  English/Language Arts    Social Studies/History    Special Education    Disability History    Disability    Inclusion    Accessibility    Culturally Relevant Pedagogy