Category: Upcoming Events

Ethnic Studies Forum

Ethnic Studies Forum 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

Contextualizing and Extending Source Based Lessons in The Monterey Bay Region

Contextualizing and Extending Source Based Lessons in the Monterey Bay Region 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…Continue Reading Contextualizing and Extending Source Based Lessons in The Monterey Bay Region

Data Visualizations in the Classroom (Part 2 of Re-imagining W.E.B. DuBois’s Data Portraits)

Data Visualizations in the Classroom: Part 2 of Reimagining W.E.B. DuBois’s Data Portraits 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. Register here…Continue Reading Data Visualizations in the Classroom (Part 2 of Re-imagining W.E.B. DuBois’s Data Portraits)

Reimagining W.E.B. Dubois’s Data Portraits with Will Villalongo: Using Data Visualizations in the Classroom

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