Participants will engage with Ethnic Studies educators to discuss topics of best practices in the classroom, content, challenges, resources, professional learning, community and civic engagement. Friday, Mar 07, 2025 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST At the California Council for Social Studies Conference in Burlingame, CA Featured Speakers: Mark Gomez & Milton Reynolds…Continue Reading Ethnic Studies Forum
Our presentation will feature classroom lessons and resources that engage students in making sense of multiple sources (both local & from the Library of Congress) to understand local histories. We will use the idea of geographical and chronological scale to guide curriculum design around silenced histories of Black & Indigenous Santa Cruz, student-led movements, and…Continue Reading Contextualizing and Extending Source Based Lessons in The Monterey Bay Region
Join The History & Civics Project, Educators, and the Santa Cruz Black Health Matters Initiative for Part 2 of this series. Come learn about and explore: Date: February 27, 2025 Time: 4:00 pm (PST) Location: on Zoom (a Zoom link will be sent closer to the date) Register here…Continue Reading Data Visualizations in the Classroom (Part 2 of Re-imagining W.E.B. DuBois’s Data Portraits)
Join us for this virtual kick-off event on January 23rd at 3:30 pm (PST). Our featured guest, multimedia artist and professor William Villalongo, will share his exciting project of reimagining W.E.B. Dubois’ historic data portraits where he uses current data to raise awareness of conditions around Black lives in the 21st Century. We will then further…Continue Reading Reimagining W.E.B. Dubois’s Data Portraits with Will Villalongo: Using Data Visualizations in the Classroom
Join us October 16th from 4:30-5:30 PST for a free conversation co-hosted by the UC Irvine Teacher Academy and The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz where you will hear from teachers about how they are implementing media literacy in their classrooms.
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Please join the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History for a collaborative workshop connecting local educators with tribal leaders and scholars. …Continue Reading Educator Workshop with the Amah Mutsun
First one is September 18! We will meet up to share ideas and learn and support one another in teaching Ethnic Studies. …Continue Reading Ethnic Studies Meet-ups 2024-2025
September 26, 4:00-5:30, lets talk about Teaching the 2024 Elections…Continue Reading Teaching the 2024 Elections