Please join us for this exciting virtual panel discussion moderated by Professor John Jota Leaños and featuring honored panelists: Aimee Villarreal, Loretta Trujillo and Lee Moquino.
Using the film Frontera’s retelling of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 as a case study, Professor John Jota Leaños will facilitate a conversation between Pueblo scholars and educators that informs and inspires teachers in their understanding of this event and the process of interrogating and reimagining stories of the past.
- learn instructional strategies from experienced educators that support students’ media literacy skills
- receive free curriculum that supports students to build the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to critically engage in civic reasoning and discourse as media consumers, curators and producers.
Why media literacy now? In a world flooded with competing, conflicting, and contradictory information, students need tools and strategies to identify the purpose, audience, and motives of media sources. These resources support students’ agency as critical media consumers, curators and producers and foster students’ abilities to be reflective and accurate as they share and create media themselves.
We invite you to two virtual sessions on October 19 (4-5:15 pm PST) and October 26 (4-5:15 pm PST). Each session will consist of experienced teachers sharing resources and discussing implementation by grade-span. We will talk in small groups about how media literacy instruction will look in your classroom. Register here now!
Launching the Interrogating and Reimagining Historical, Literary, and Artistic Representations Project
Ethnic Studies educators! Join us for this event where we will introduce this project and folks who have been working on it. This Saturday morning/early afternoon event will include a keynote presentation by Professor John Jota Leaños, the chance to learn about collaboratively developed curriculum and classroom tools, purposeful conversation, and ways to participate in the project during 2023-2024.
Register now to secure your spot…and tell your colleagues!
This event will be at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (the MAH).
Stipends available for participating teachers and for joining ongoing efforts this academic year.
Engaging and Accessible History Instruction for Multilingual Learners 
Save the date and reserve a place to participate in this workshop. The workshop will be Tuesday, June 13th, and Thursday, June 15, 2023 at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education in Santa Cruz. (Please note new date.)
In this workshop, we’ll take an assets based approach and learn from research, practice, scholars, and peers as we investigate ways to ensure engaging and accessible history instruction for multilingual learners. This workshop will feature UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor, Grace Delgado from the History Department and Professor George Bunch from the Education Department. Reserve your space now!
This workshop is focused primarily on grades 5-12. Attend with a team or individually.
Ethnic Studies Meet Up
Please join us in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and 21CSLA Mid-State Regional Academy on April 19, from 4:00-5:00pm PST for an Ethnic Studies Meet Up. This is the fourth in a series of meet-ups that will be spaces where Ethnic Studies educators can share ideas, questions, resources, and problems of practice and design. We aim to structure these meet-ups so teachers can make connections, share ideas and resources for designing and implementing curriculum, and deepen pedagogy and familiarity with the field. The focus of our conversations will emerge from participants’ needs and interests.
We will meet virtually over Zoom, April 19, 2023.
Writing Historical Arguments in World & US History with Jefferson Union High School District
March 7 and 23, 2023
The State Seal of Civic Engagement: Discussing and Planning with Jefferson Union High School District
Ethnic Studies Meet Ups
Please join us January 25, February 15, and March 8 from 4:00-5:00pm PST for an Ethnic Studies Meet Up. This is the first in a series of meet-ups that will be spaces where Ethnic Studies educators can share ideas, questions, resources, and problems of practice and design. We aim to structure these meet-ups so teachers can make connections, share ideas and resources for designing and implementing curriculum, and deepen pedagogy and familiarity with the field. The focus of our conversations will emerge from participants’ needs and interests.
We will meet virtually over Zoom for this first session.
We can’t wait to see you in 2023!
Ethnic Studies K-12 Teacher Inquiry Group
Please join us for our Ethnic Studies K-12 Teacher Inquiry Group on December 12 from 4:30-6:30pm PST on zoom.
“REVISITING THE ROOTS OF THE STRUGGLE”
In this first inquiry group meeting, we will discuss the origins of Ethnic Studies in California through the student strikes of 1968 — and their relevance to K-12 Ethnic Studies teaching today.
PLEASE NOTE: Our apologies for unclear wording in our publicity email–stipends are only available to a limited group of teachers as they are provided by a Santa Cruz County focused grant. The first 15 teachers to register and attend from Santa Cruz County will receive a $50 stipend.
We hope to see you!
Register here! (Zoom link will be sent closer to the event.)
Download flyer here.
A book and resources event featuring local Native scholars and histories and introducing teaching resources and opportunities. Guest authors and scholars and their featured books and articles are: Judith Scott, When the Mission Bells Rang; Valentin Lopez and Ramirez, Valentin Lopez, Healing and Decolonization: Contesting Mission Bells, El Camino Real and Governor Gavin Newsom; Renya Ramirez, Standing Up to Colonial Power; Tsim Schneider, The Archeology of Refuge and Recourse; and Martin Rizzo-Martinez, We Are Not Animals. 
Join us to meet these authors, learn about their books and have the opportunity to win a copy! (There will be multiple chances to win a copy of the children’s book When the Mission Bells Rang.) Learn about ongoing work that includes resources and colleagues (including educators and Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Members) focused on centering Indigenous perspectives in teaching and learning about the California Missions and other past events and processes.
Location: Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Time: 4:30-6:00
Building Community for K-12 Ethnic Studies
Join us Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, from 10am-2pm at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center in Santa Cruz for an Ethnic Studies Symposium. 
The event will be facilitated by faculty from the UC Santa Cruz departments of Education and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. At this inaugural event, we collectively aspire to:
- connect with a like-hearted community of educators;
- build with community movements for social and educational justice;
- explore real-life case studies of Ethnic Studies teaching; and
- share resources for sustaining and nourishing Ethnic Studies teaching – and teachers!
*Lunch provided* $100 stipend available for up to 50 educators! Priority given to those with expressed commitments to Ethnic Studies and/or organizing with communities of color.
Funding for this event is provided by the UCSC Office of Research and the UCSC Institute for Social Transformation.
Questions? Please contact: ejhowe@ucsc.edu
Flyer is available here.
HCP Teacher Leadership Institute
McHenry Library, June 7 & 8, 2022
You’ve no doubt created and adapted so many good lessons and teaching resources this year. Join us to work on refining, revising, and preparing one or more of those resources to share with other educators. Even better if you work on a resource inspired by an HCP workshop! (Elections? Democracy? Thinking Historically About Race and Whiteness? Mexican American History? Primary sources? Civic Seal? Media Literacy? Critical Missions?)
Sliding scale stipends will be available for completed work that meets specifications.
We will also think together about opportunities and ways to feature you and your work in future HCP events and projects.
Date: May 12, 2022, 4:00-5:30pm
Primary sources are essential in documenting our lives now and in reconstructing what we know about the past. Sources of Justice is an online scholar series where participants deeply analyze and interpret primary sources with a focus on how race and racism has informed and shaped our concept of justice in American and World History. We will host live webinars monthly, from February through May, where scholars will present their research and discuss how primary sources are critical to their scholarship and the narratives that are possible. Funded by the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Sources program, the CHSSP network of scholars, teacher leaders, and teacher educators will inquire into questions such as:
- What or who are sources of justice?
- How have scholars used primary sources to shape our understanding of struggles for justice over time and place?
- What does justice or its absence feel and look like in primary sources?
Making Meaningful Assessments: Designing and Implementing Performance Tasks: Session Four
Date: March 31, 2022, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm 
Performance assessments ask students to think and do and are tightly connected to curriculum and instruction. In this series, we will focus on using literacy and content-rich performance assessments that engage all students in investigating past and present. The series will guide teachers in developing or adapting a performance task for their classroom, implementing that task, and then revising that task using student work and teacher reflection. It is intended for teams of teachers but is also appropriate for individuals. Educators who share an instructional focus, such as grade-level, civic engagement, or historical argumentation, will have opportunities to create working groups to support each other through this series.
Register here.
Download flyer here.
This series is supported by CARES Act funding.
Building Students’ Media Literacy for Civic Engagement Series
In a world flooded with competing, conflicting, and contradictory information, students need tools and strategies to identify the purpose, audience, and motives of different information sources, including speeches, posters, advertisements, and social network posts. These tools allow them to be critical and independent thinkers capable of entering into civic dialogue to solve society’s pressing problems in an increasingly complicated digital world.
Three virtual sessions focused on media consumption, curation, and production will occur on February 9 (4-5:30pm PST), February 16 (4-6pm PST), and February 23 (4-5:30pm PST).
Each session will consist of speakers, group and breakout work, Q & A, and discussion about how media literacy instruction will look in your classroom.
Workshop presenters include teacher-leaders who have successfully integrated media literacy lessons into their curricula and a talk from Allison Perlman, Assistant Professor of History and Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine.
Making Meaningful Assessments: Designing and Implementing Performance Tasks: Session Three
This will be the third session in a 5 part series taking place in 2021-22.
Performance assessments ask students to think and do and are tightly connected to curriculum and instruction. In this series, we will focus on using literacy and content-rich performance assessments that engage all students in investigating past and present. The series will guide teachers in developing or adapting a performance task for their classroom, implementing that task, and then revising that task using student work and teacher reflection. It is intended for teams of teachers but is also appropriate for individuals. Educators who share an instructional focus, such as grade-level, civic engagement, or historical argumentation, will have opportunities to create working groups to support each other through this series.
This session will feature Ethnic Studies teacher, Catalina Del Canto.
Register here.
Download flyer here.
This series is supported by CARES Act funding.
Making Meaningful Assessments: Designing and Implementing Performance Tasks: Session Two
Date: November 18th, 2021
3:30-5:30pm
This is the second session in the 5 session series. Subsequent sessions are currently planned for November 18, 2021, January 20, 2022, and March 31, 2022 and a date TBD in April 2022.
The first session will be guided by the questions:
- What is performance assessment and how does it meet today’s educational challenges?
- How do we use performance assessments in our classrooms to meet our teaching goals?
Performance assessments ask students to think and do and are tightly connected to curriculum and instruction. In this series, we will focus on using literacy and content-rich performance assessments that engage all students in investigating past and present. The series will guide teachers in developing or adapting a performance task for their classroom, implementing that task, and then revising that task using student work and teacher reflection. It is intended for teams of teachers but is also appropriate for individuals. Educators who share an instructional focus, such as grade-level, civic engagement, or historical argumentation, will have opportunities to create working groups to support each other through this series.
Continuing Education Units available. We will add more details regarding topics and guest speakers and presenters soon.
Register here.
Download flyer here.
This series is supported by CARES Act funding.
Integrating Mexican American History into your Curriculum- Session Two
Date: November 10, 2021
4:00-6:00pm
Sign up now to receive updates regarding schedule, presenters, and topics.
Register here to receive updates and reserve your spot.
Integrating Mexican American History into your Curriculum- Session One
Sign up now to receive updates regarding schedule, presenters, and topics.
Register here to receive updates and reserve your spot.
Making Meaningful Assessments: Designing and Implementing Performance Tasks: Session One
The first session is guided by the questions:
- What is performance assessment and how does it meet today’s educational challenges?
- How do we use performance assessments in our classrooms to meet our teaching goals?
Performance assessments ask students to think and do and are tightly connected to curriculum and instruction. In this series, we will focus on using literacy and content-rich performance assessments that engage all students in investigating past and present. The series will guide teachers in developing or adapting a performance task for their classroom, implementing that task, and then revising that task using student work and teacher reflection. It is intended for teams of teachers but is also appropriate for individuals. Educators who share an instructional focus, such as grade-level, civic engagement, or historical argumentation, will have opportunities to create working groups to support each other through this series.
Exploring the Legal Roots of Race and Whiteness with Dr. Jack Chin
Date: September 21, 2021
Join us to learn from our guest speaker, Dr. Gabriel “Jack” Chin, Professor of Law at UC Davis.
Professor Chin is the Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair and the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis. His work includes persuading the California Supreme Court to admit Hong Hen Chang to the bar in 2015 after they denied him because of his race in 1890, and leading an effort to repeal anti-Asian alien land laws which were still on the books in Florida, Kansas, New Mexico, and Wyoming. We will hear from Professor Chin and then discuss classroom applications with fellow educators.
This will be our 2nd follow-up meeting for our Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources summer workshop, Thinking Historically About Race and Whiteness: Possibilities for Antiracist Pedagogies.
This meeting will happen over Zoom. If you participated in our summer workshop you do NOT need to register. Please look out for an invite link via email.
Thinking Historically About Race and Whiteness: Possibilities for Antiracist Pedagogies Summer Workshop Follow-Up #1
Date: September 2, 2021
This summer, over 90 educators joined us over 3-days for a workshop sponsored by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program: Thinking Historically About Race and Whiteness: Possibilities for Antiracist Pedagogies.
On September 2nd, we hosted our first follow-up meeting over Zoom. The second follow-up meeting on September 21, is open to all. For more information and to register visit here.
Bell Removal Ceremony
Date: August 26, 2021
The last of three commemorative mission bells in Santa Cruz was removed August 28, 2021 from where it has stood since 1906. This act of healing signals concerted efforts by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band to remove these symbols celebrating the colonial past and the brutal missionization of California. The Critical Missions Project aims to similarly remove the “Mission Project” from the fourth grade curriculum in the region.
Critical Missions Project at UC Santa Cruz
This Critical Missions Project sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Lab aims to center Amah Mutsun stories and Indigenous perspectives in local school curricula and lessons addressing the California Missions. Part of the larger Critical Missions Studies initiative, this is a collaborative project led by Professors Judith Scott and Renya Ramirez and bringing together Amah Mutsun Tribal Band members, UCSC native scholars and researchers, the History & Civics Project, and regional teachers. We focus on multiple levers of change to challenge dominant colonial narratives and current practices in teaching missions and the mission era. One of those levers is learning from Amah Mutsun Tribal members.
Summer Workshop: Thinking Historically about Race and Whiteness—Possibilities for Antiracist Pedagogies
Date: June 21 – 23, 2021
What is race? What is whiteness? Where do these ideas come from and how have they changed over time?
In this free virtual workshop we will explore the history of race and whiteness from their nascence in the 14th century to modern manifestations. We will hear from scholars, examine primary sources, and use historical case studies to plan antiracist applications for your classroom. Register now for this workshop (limited enrollment).
Transforming the Teaching of the California Missions: A Conversation
May 19, 2021 | 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Are you a teacher interested in changing the way the California Missions are taught?
Join us for a conversation about teaching the mission period in Grade 4 and integrating Indigenous perspectives into California elementary classrooms.
Register here
Assessment
March 17, 2021 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Join us for a virtual session on Assessment put on in partnership with Region 5’s History-Social Science Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship (CLIC) Project’s Community of Practice. All are welcome including K-16 educators, administrators, paraprofessionals and more. We hope you’ll join…
Media Literacy Series with The UC Irvine History Project
February 22, 2021 | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Please join us for a reprise of our Media Literacy series produced with our partners at The UC Irvine History Project. Those sessions will be Monday afternoons: February 22, and March 8 and 22.
- Session 1: February 22nd @ 4 PM-5:30 PM PST
- Session 2: March 8th @ 4 PM-6 PM PST
- Session 3: March 22nd @ 4 PM-5:30 PM PST
Mark your calendars and more information to come.
Environmental Literacy & Climate Justice
February 18, 2021 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Join us for these two virtual sessions on environmental literacy and climate justice put on in partnership with Region 5’s History-Social Science Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship (CLIC) Project’s Community of Practice.
All are welcome including K-16 educators, administrators, paraprofessionals and more.
We hope to see you there!
Teaching Economics with Professor Rob Fairlie
February 2, 2021 | 4:05 pm – 5:20 pm
Please join us Tuesday, February 2 for a conversation with UC Santa Cruz Professor Robert Fairlie. Professor Fairlie will talk about his recent research regarding the pandemic’s impact on minority owned businesses. This event will happen this Tuesday, February 2nd from 4:05-5:20. Register here.
Environmental Literacy & Climate Justice
January 21, 2021 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Join us for these two virtual sessions on environmental literacy and climate justice put on in partnership with Region 5’s History-Social Science Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship (CLIC) Project’s Community of Practice.
All are welcome including K-16 educators, administrators, paraprofessionals and more.
We hope to see you there!
Media Literacy Series Follow-Up
January 20, 2021 | 4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
This meeting is a follow-up to our Fall 2020 three-part series on media literacy. We’ll continue conversations from previous workshops about how to implement media literacy into your classrooms, highlighting what you’ve done so far and what you’re planning to do in the future. We’ll share ideas, resources, tools and strategies to identify the purpose, audience, and motives of different information sources, including speeches, posters, advertisements, and social network posts.
Integrating Disciplinary Inquiry in Grades 7 and 8
December 2, 2020 | 3:45 am – 1:45 pm
This workshop facilitated by Director Daisy Martin will be a follow up training focusing on learning more ways to engage and interest students in thinking, talking, reading and writing historically using virtual instruction. Teachers will be introduced to classroom-ready tools and materials as well as ways to think about modifying and using them with their students. This work will focus on equity and engaging students in meaningful learning activities and include support for building online classroom communities.
Teaching Indigenous Histories
December 1, 2020 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Join us on December 1, 3:30-5:00 for a Teaching Indigenous Histories session that will include discussions around challenging settler colonial narratives and a local teacher sharing her approach. Register here.
Teaching Indigenous Histories
November 19, 2020 | 3:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Join us for our upcoming CLIC sessions focused on Teaching Indigenous Histories. Beginning on Thursday, November 19, the Amah Mutsun Land Trust will be holding a Fire Symposium that focuses on Central California’s fire history, prescribed burning, and Indigenous fire stewardship.Register hereto attend this event from 3:00-4:30. Spots are limited so register now! Immediately following this event, we will meet to discuss what we learned and consider how we can bring these topics into our classrooms from 4:30-5:15. Register herefor this follow-up discussion.
Discord & Crisis: The 2020 Election
November 10, 2020 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Join us for the third session in this free webinar series designed to help teachers empower their students to navigate this year’s election. All sessions will be held via Zoom from 4 – 5:30 pm.
What’s Next? (November 10). For our post-election day session, we’ll discuss what happened during and after November 3rd, and talk about what happens next, and how we (and our students) can respond.
Prior Sessions
- Struggles Over Suffrage: Who Gets to Vote? (October 7). The first session will explore ongoing contestation over participation in the political process.
- Threats to the Electoral Process – Will the People’s Choice Prevail? (October 21). The second session will help teachers make sense of the legal, constitutional and ideological perspectives surrounding the presidential election and prepare for the potential of a post-election dispute over results.
What’s Next?
November 10, 2020 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
This workshop in collaboration with the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project and the History Project at UC Davis is designed to help teachers empower their students to navigate this year’s election. For our post-election day session, we’ll discuss what happened during and after November 3rd, talk about what happens next, and how we (and our students) can respond. Register here for the entire series. Find more information here.
Amah Mutsun Speaker Series, Critical Mission Studies Research: Telling the Truth
November 7, 2020 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
The Amah Mutsun Speaker Series began in 2009 by the then American Indian Resource Center Director, Dr. Dennis Tibbetts, and Chairman Valentin Lopez of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. The purpose of the Amah Mutsun Speaker Series is to raise awareness about the issues that impact Native Americans and California Natives in particular. The speaker series board is composed of Amah Mutsun Tribal Band members, AIRC staff, and UCSC faculty. One goal of the Amah Mutsun Speaker Series is to continue efforts to include the Indigenous peoples of the land as partners. The Amah Mutsun Speaker Series occurs in the Fall quarter and again in the Spring quarter every school year.
If you would like to learn more about the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, please click hereto be directed to their official website.
This year’s Amah Mutsun Speaker Series will be held virtually via Zoom. Registration is required for guests to receive the Zoom meeting information.
Please use this link to register → bit.ly/AMSS20
Integrating Disciplinary Inquiry in Grades 7 and 8 with Franklin McKinley Teachers
October 28, 2020 | 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
This workshop facilitated by our Director Daisy Martin will focus on supporting teachers in integrating disciplinary inquiry into the Grade 7 and Grade 8 history classroom. Activities will include learning more about the new demands and focus of the Framework, model lesson structures and ways to engage and interest students in thinking, talking, reading and writing historically using virtual instruction.
Threats to the Electoral Process – Will the People’s Choice Prevail?
October 21, 2020 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Join us in collaboration with the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project and the History Project at UC Davis for this free webinar series designed to help teachers empower their students to navigate this year’s election. This second session will help teachers makes sense of the legal, constitutional and ideological perspectives surrounding the presidential election and prepare for the potential of a post-election dispute over results. Register here for the entire series.
Visit here for more information.
Building Students’ Media Literacy for Civic Engagement
- September 17, 2020 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
- October 1st, 2020 | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- October 15th, 2020 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
We are excited to partner with The History Project at UC Irvine to produce this free workshop!
Register now and reserve your spot to explore teaching strategies and also design or adapt a lesson that develops students’ media literacy skills and dispositions for civic engagement.
Why media literacy? Students need strategies and practices to navigate a media landscape flooded with competing, conflicting, and contradictory information. Teaching and practicing those strategies will help build critical and independent thinkers and agents in an increasingly complicated digital world.
There are three sessions: September 17th (4-5:30pm PST), October 1st (4-6pm PST), and October 15th (4-5:30pm PST). Each session will consist of speakers, group and breakout work, Q & A, and discussion about how media literacy instruction will look in your classroom.
Workshop presenters include teacher-leaders who have successfully integrated media literacy lessons into their curricula and a talk from Allison Perlman, Assistant Professor of History and Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine.
Teaching Voting Rights
September 10, 2020 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
This workshop facilitated by our Director Daisy Martin is one of the CLIC Region 5presentations this year. Part of the series that focuses on civic engagement and empowerment, this session focus on the 15th Amendment to the Constitution and its enactment over time, and also explore using state-authored texts to teach voting rights and responsibilities.
Register here for the entire series. Look for a single session registration link coming soon.
Equity in Civics & the State Seal of Civic Engagement
September 3, 2020 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
This workshop facilitated by Mark Gomez, Salinas Unified’s History/Social Science Curriculum Specialist, is one of the CLIC Region 5 presentations this year. This session is part of the series that focuses on civic engagement and empowerment. Register here for the entire series.
Redding, CA: California History Social Science Framework Conference- Postponed
September 2, 2020 | 8:00 am – 3:30 pm
One of a series of conferences across California, focused on Framework implementation. Choose from more than 20 different Framework-related topics, including the FAIR Act, world history, Native Californians, and special sessions designed specifically for elementary teachers and school administrators. Click here to see the full list of sessions and scheduled presenters.
Location: Shasta County Office of Education
Registration: Registration costs $225, and is payable via credit card or school purchase order. If you are interested in attending, reserve your spot today, as our last round of conferences sold out quickly. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and parking. Register here.
Keynote: Professor Heather Cox Richardson
July 29, 2020 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Join us for a Keynote talk with Professor Heather Cox Richardson, author of several books, including the recently published book How the South Won the Civil Warand daily newsletter, Letters from an American.
Wednesday morning, July 29th on Zoom.
Reserve your spot here, as space is limited. This event will take place midmorning on July 29th. Exact times and zoom links will be emailed to you.
What Makes a Democracy? A Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop
Date: July 28 – 30, 2020
Join us this July for our modified virtual workshop sponsored by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. Reserve your spot now for this free workshop where you will work to develop a lesson using sources from the Library of Congress to engage your students in investigating a topic related to democracy.
Summer virtual sessions will be July 28, July 29, and July 30. Expect to spend no more than three hours with us each day in a virtual session that will include speakers, small group work, and breaks, and at least one hour working independently each of those days. We will also have 2 follow-up sessions in Fall 2020.
A highlight of our work together will be a Keynote talk with Professor Heather Cox Richardson.
There will be stipends available for participating educators and we anticipate offering fee-based professional learning credits. More details about the program available soon, but register now to reserve your spot! (Spots for the entire workshop are limited.)
Register here.
Get Ready for Election 2020 with KQED
July 24, 2020 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join KQED and the Bay Area Writing Project for a free two-workshop series designed to help students analyze election issues, then create media to share their views and connect with peers across the nation.
Location: Zoom!.
Register: Here.
Audience: 6-12 grade Teachers.
This workshop series is offered through the Santa Clara County Office of Education, the Monterey County Office of Education and the San Mateo County Office of Education.
Get Ready for Election 2020 with KQED
July 22, 2020 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join KQED and the Bay Area Writing Project for a free two-workshop series designed to help students analyze election issues, then create media to share their views and connect with peers across the nation.
Location: Zoom!.
Register: Here.
Audience: 6-12 grade Teachers.
This workshop series is offered through the Santa Clara County Office of Education, the Monterey County Office of Education and the San Mateo County Office of Education.
Toppling Mission Monuments and Mythologies Conference
July 15, 2020 | 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
California Indian Scholars and Allies Respond. A Conference sponsored by Critical Missions Studies, a project of the University of California. Register Here
Get Ready for Election 2020 with KQED
June 16, 2020 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Join KQED for a free two-workshop series designed to help students analyze election issues, then create media to share their views and connect with peers across the nation.
Location: Santa Clara County Office of Education, 1290 Ridder Park Drive San Jose, CA 95131-2304.
Register: Here.
Audience: 6-12 Grade Teachers.
Santa Maria, CA: Implementing the CA History-Social Science Framework
May 21, 2020 | 8:30 am – 3:15 pm
Facilitated by The History and Civics Project at UCSC, this year-long series of professional development days in the Santa Maria Joint Union High School district will focus on classroom tools and approaches to incorporate multiple opportunities for students to learn core, standards-aligned, disciplinary processes and content.
Watsonville High School: Excellence in History/Social Science Teaching & Learning
May 20, 2020 | 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
Implementing the HSS Framework.
Facilitated by the History and Civics Project at UCSC, this meeting will focus on the application of vision to practice in designing inquiry-based lessons for the academic year. This meeting will focus on teachers purposefully analyzing student work that was produced in response to their inquiry-based lessons. Teachers will consider what they can learn from that work regarding student understanding and growth as well as lesson design.
Carson, CA: California History Social Science Framework Conference-Postponed
May 19, 2020 | 8:00 am – 3:30 pm
One of a series of conferences across California, focused on Framework implementation. Choose from more than 20 different Framework-related topics, including the FAIR Act, world history, Native Californians, and special sessions designed specifically for elementary teachers and school administrators. Click here to see the full list of sessions and scheduled presenters.
Location: CSU Dominguez Hills
Registration: Registration costs $225, and is payable via credit card or school purchase order. If you are interested in attending, reserve your spot today, as our last round of conferences sold out quickly. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and parking. Register here.
Lesson Planning & Assessments in Distance Learning
May 15, 2020 | 12:00 am – 8:00 am
Two online sessions to support Santa Cruz City School History/Social Science secondary teachers in the emergency transition to online and home learning. May 7: Lesson Planning in Distance Learning May 15: Assessments in Distance Learning
Lesson Planning & Assessments in Distance Learning
May 7, 2020 | 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Two online sessions to support Santa Cruz City School History/Social Science secondary teachers in the emergency transition to online and home learning. May 7: Lesson Planning in Distance Learning May 15: Assessments in Distance Learning
Implementing the Framework: Region 5 Community of Practice CLIC Events-Postponed
April 24, 2020 | 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
This third day of a series of three over the academic year will focus on implementing the Framework and its emphasis on content, literacy, inquiry, and citizenship, or CLIC. The day will include a focus on integrating environmental literacy into the History-Social Science curriculum. Learn more and register herefor this free event focused on engaging students in content and literacy-rich history and social science investigations!
Location: Monterey County Office of Education, 901 Blanco Cir, Salinas, CA 93901.
Audience: K-12 Teachers, Administrators and Paraprofessionals
Cost: Free
Dates: April 24, 2020
Flyer:CLIC Project Region 5 HSS 2019-2020
Watsonville High School: Excellence in History/Social Science Teaching & Learning
April 22, 2020 | 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
This meeting is one of a series facilitated by the History and Civics Project at UCSC that is focused on implementing the History/Social Science Framework. This meeting will focus on the collaborative process of teachers designing inquiry-based lessons and purposefully analyzing student work.
LGBTQ History Symposium-Postponed
March 27, 2020 | 7:30 am – 3:30 pm
A day of model teaching featuring Salinas Union High School District teachers. Observe middle school and high school teachers teaching LGBTQ history lessons, learn about the elements that cause classrooms to be more inclusive to LGBTQ students and families, as well as obtain school culture/climate and teaching strategies from educators. $100 includes meals, materials, and transportation to school sites.
Location: Monterey County Office of Education, 901 Blanco Circle Salinas, CA 93912-0851.
Register: Here,$100/person (includes meals, materials, and transportation to school sites).
Audience: K-12 Teachers, Administrators, TOSAs and Instructional Coaches.
Teaching the U.S.-Mexican War-Postponed
March 19, 2020 | 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm
Join us to learn more about the U.S.-Mexican War, think about it from multiple perspectives, and discuss ways to bring it into your classroom. Professor Matt O’Hara, an award-winning UC Santa Cruz historian of Mexico, will briefly present an overview of the Mexican past, and then discuss the U.S.- Mexican War. We will also discuss and explore practical ideas and materials for engaging with these topics in the elementary and secondary classroom. This workshop is most appropriate for educators teaching history and the social sciences in grades 4-12, but all are welcome!
Location: Cabrillo College Room 1606, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003.
Register: Herefor this no-cost event.
Audience: 4-12 Grade Teachers
Watsonville High School: Excellence in History/Social Science Teaching & Learning
March 11, 2020 | 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
This meeting is one of a series facilitated by the History and Civics Project at UCSC that is focused on implementing the History/Social Science Framework. This meeting will focus on the collaborative process of teachers designing lessons and purposefully analyzing student work.
California Council for Social Studies, 59th annual conference
Date: February 28 – March 1, 2020
This year’s conference, A 2020 Vision for Social Studies: Preparing Today’s Students for College, Career, and Civic Life, will continue CCSS’s traditional devotion to providing quality professional development focused on new scholarship, research-based strategies, and networking — all designed to improve the teaching and learning of history/social studies across the state.
Location: Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa
Audience: Serving K-16 Educators Statewide
Registration: California Council for Social Studies
Santa Maria, CA: Implementing the CA History-Social Science Framework
February 25, 2020 | 8:30 am – 3:15 pm
Facilitated by The History and Civics Project at UCSC, this year-long series of professional development days in the Santa Maria Joint Union High School district will focus on classroom tools and approaches to incorporate multiple opportunities for students to learn core, standards-aligned, disciplinary processes and content.
Integrating Civics: A Pilot Program with Salinas Teacher Leaders
February 19, 2020
This is the third meeting of a year-long collaborative project between the History and Civics Project at UCSC and the Salinas Unified staff and teacher leaders focusing on implementing civics education across grades 7-12.
Location: Salinas Unified School District, Salinas CA
Date: Feb. 9th, 2020
Watsonville High School: Excellence in History/Social Science Teaching & Learning
February 12, 2020 | 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
This meeting is one of a series facilitated by the History and Civics Project at UCSC that is focused on implementing the History/Social Science Framework. This meeting will focus on the collaborative process of teachers designing lessons and purposefully analyzing student work.
Meet-up: Civic Online Reasoning Resources
February 6, 2020 | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
How do we teach media literacy? How can we prepare our students to navigate online information and sources so they can discern accurate information from falsehoods? This newly released curriculum (COR) is too good to miss. During our 90 minutes together, we will introduce the curriculum, include some ideas and testimonials about using it in the classroom, and then have collaborative and study time to think about integrating these resources into your curriculum. This is the first in a series of events focused on providing resources, time and support for integrating media literacy into the K-16 curriculum. More details about these media literacy events coming late Winter.
Please register here: COR Meet-up Registration Form
This is the second of a series of “meet-ups” that will address current topics in teaching history and social science. These meet-ups are designed to provide both physical space and temporal space to pause and think together about implications of late-breaking news or resources for the classroom. Participants will choose the best way to spend the bulk of their time for these meet-ups, working together in large or small groups or individually with support. Join us!
Riverside, CA: California History Social Science Framework Conference
February 5, 2020 | 8:00 am – 3:30 pm
One of a series of conferences across California, focused on Framework implementation. Choose from more than 20 different Framework-related topics, including the FAIR Act, world history, Native Californians, and special sessions designed specifically for elementary teachers and school administrators. Click here to see the full list of sessions and scheduled presenters.
Location: Riverside Convention Center
Registration: Registration costs $225, and is payable via credit card or school purchase order. If you are interested in attending, reserve your spot today, as our last round of conferences sold out quickly. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and parking. Register here.
Implementing the Framework: Region 5 Community of Practice CLIC Events
January 24, 2020 | 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
This series of three days over the academic year will focus on implementing the Framework and its emphasis on content, literacy, inquiry, and citizenship, or CLIC. Learn more and register herefor this free series of events focused on engaging students in content and literacy-rich history and social science investigations!
Location: Monterey County Office of Education
Audience: K-12 Teachers, Administrators and Paraprofessionals
Cost: Free
Dates: January 24, 2020
Flyer:CLIC Project Region 5 HSS 2019-2020
Watsonville High School: Excellence in History/Social Science Teaching & Learning
January 22, 2020 | 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
This meeting is one of a series focused on implementing the History/Social Science Framework. It will focus on building teachers’ shared understandings of disciplinary inquiry, thinking, and practices, and what teaching those looks like in the classroom. Subsequent meetings will focus on teachers designing lessons and purposefully analyzing student work together.
Hayward, CA: California History Social Science Framework Conference
December 16, 2019 | 8:00 am – 3:30 pm
One of a series of conferences across California, focused on Framework implementation. Choose from more than 20 different Framework-related topics, including the FAIR Act, world history, Native Californians, and special sessions designed specifically for elementary teachers and school administrators. Click here to preview the draft agenda.
Location: CSU East Bay
Registration: Registration costs $225, and is payable via credit card or school purchase order. If you are interested in attending, reserve your spot today, as our last round of conferences sold out quickly. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and parking. Register here.
Watsonville High School: Excellence in History/Social Science Teaching & Learning
December 11, 2019 | 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
Implementing the HSS Framework.
Facilitated by the History and Civics Project at UCSC, this meeting will focus on the application of vision to practice in designing inquiry-based lessons for the academic year. Subsequent meetings will focus on teachers designing lessons and purposefully analyzing student work.
Teaching History Conference at UCLA
Culturally Responsive Teaching in the History Classroom
Registration is now open for the 2019 TeachingHistoryConference!
The Conference invites history educators from across the K-16 continuum to sign up and join them on May 3rd and 4th at UCLA. Keynote speakers include Professors Kelly Lytle Hernandez, author of City of Inmates, and H. Samy Alim, co-editor of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies. Please see here for more information.
Teaching History Conference 2019 Flyer
Conference: California Council for the Social Studies
Attend the annual conference of the California Council for the Social Studies. Held in San Jose this year, find additional information here.
Landscapes in History
A free summer workshop sponsored by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program and the California Environmental Literacy Initiative. Teacher participants in this four-day institute will explore ways to effectively integrate environmental literacy and primary sources into their history social-science curriculum. Place-based historic inquiry will be a focus and the workshop will include opportunities to learn from historians and colleagues and develop materials for your own classroom. Event will be held from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. daily at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, 400 Encinal Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.
Click here to register. Spots are limited, so register early! Please email thehistoryandcivicsproject@ucsc.edu with questions or call (831) 502-7390. (Registration link is https://bit.ly/2019TPSUCSC)
View flyer here.
The Workshop will include:
- Activities aligned with the new California History-Social Science Framework;
- A $150 stipend for full participation;
- Spanish language resources;
- Key concepts for integrating environmental literacy into your classroom; and
- A 1-day follow-up meeting during the academic year.
CA H-SS Network Conversation
California’s History-Social Science Project leaders and staff meet with Professors Monte-Sano and Schleppegrell from the University of Michigan to talk about the teaching of writing and learn about their recent work.
LGBTQ History & School Climate Institute
Two-day free event that you will want to attend!
Day 1 is about building a safer and more inclusive school climate and designed for administrators, teachers and club advisors. The second day is designed for grade 8 and 11 history teachers and focuses on teaching LGBTQ history aligned with the new CA History-Social Science Framework. Sponsored by the CLIC Region 5 Community of Practice.
Presenter: Dr. Rob Darrow
Location: Monterey County Office of Education
Register here. See here for flyer.
History-Social Science-Civics Jam:
The gift of time, collaboration, and $500 stipend, meals and materials!
The Monterey County Office of Education invites Region V K-12 Teachers in Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties to the History-Social Science-Civics Summer Jam to collaborate and develop California Standards and Frameworks aligned units of study with a focus on the Constitution and other primary source documents.
Responsive and inclusive pedagogies and strategies (ELD and UDL) will integrated, as well as the C3 Framework Inquiry Arc Dimensions, resulting in students’ communicating conclusions and taking informed civic action.
Register Here!
Hollister School District: Writing Historical Arguments in Middle School:Aug. 8, 2018
Workshop for Hollister teachers.
Ethnic Studies Conversation:Aug. 22-23, 2018
California History-Social Science Network leaders discuss Ethnic Studies courses, visions, and curricula.
Teaching California: Planning in Collaboration: Aug. 29, 2018
State’s Project Directors collaboratively plan with the California Historical Society for Year 2 of the Teaching California project.
Implementing the Framework in High School Classrooms: Oct 18, 2018
The first of two all day professional development sessions for Nipomo and Arroyo Grande High School teachers.MA/Credential Alumni Event:Jan 31, 2019
An Introduction to the History & Civics Project for UC Santa Cruz Credential Program alumni. Reception in McHenry Library breezeway followed by conversations in teaching lab. Contact Deana Tanguay, Program Manager, for more information at dtanguay@ucsc.edu.
Civics, Language, & Literacy: Feb. 11, 2019
An all-day workshop designed for elementary teachers, designed by Dr. Daisy Martin and Professor George Bunch. Location: Monterey County Office of Education. See here for more information and for free registration.
Civics, Language, & Literacy: Feb. 19, 2019
An all-day workshop designed for elementary teachers, designed by Dr. Daisy Martin and Professor George Bunch. Location: Monterey County Office of Education. See here for more information and for free registration
History-Social Science Community of Practice Workshop:April 8, 2019
Region 5 Professional Development Day for elementary and secondary teachers, and administrators and paraprofessionals. Part of the Phase 2: Implementing the Framework series. Mark your calendars, more information available soon.
Civic Engagement Expo:May 17, 2019
Join this celebration of teaching civics and civic engagement! This event will include a keynote address by James Loewen, Educator displays, dinner, and a performance by Teatro Campesino. Location: Santa Clara County Office of Education, 1290 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA, 95131. See attached flyer for more information. Register here.
CLIC History-Social Science Community of Practice Workshops:May 31, 2019
Region 5 Professional Development Day for elementary and secondary teachers, and administrators and paraprofessionals. Part of the Phase 2: Implementing the Framework series. Workshops offered at the Monterey County Office of Education. Dates are April 8, 2019 and May 31, 2019. Workshops run from 8:30 am -2:30 pm.
Click here to register.
LGBTQ Curriculum Development:Jun. 10, 2019
Join colleagues in exploring the FAIR Act and its implications for curriculum planning!
Join other Bay Area teachers in this workshop sponsored by the Santa Clara County Office of Education in partnership with the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project. The session will help teachers explore and start implementing the FAIR Act, with an emphasis on the Framework’s encouragement of inquiry and student engagement.
The FAIR Education Act requires that California K-12 schools provide Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful representations of people with disabilities and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in history and social studies curriculum. Aided by Professor Rouse from the Social-Science Education Program at San Jose State University, this session will explore the FAIR Act and present sample FAIR Act units and lessons. Work time is built into the session and teachers will be supported while explore these and other FAIR Act resources and lesson plans.
Location: Santa Clara County Office of Education
Landscapes in History:Jun. 24, 2019
A free summer workshop sponsored by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program and the California Environmental Literacy Initiative. Teacher participants in this four-day institute will explore ways to effectively integrate environmental literacy and primary sources into their history social-science curriculum. Place-based historic inquiry will be a focus and the workshop will include opportunities to learn from historians and colleagues and develop materials for your own classroom. Event will be held from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. daily at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, 400 Encinal Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.
Click here to register. Spots are limited, so register early! Please email thehistoryandcivicsproject@ucsc.edu with questions or call (831) 502-7390. (Registration link is https://bit.ly/2019TPSUCSC)
View flyer here.
The Workshop will include:
- Activities aligned with the new California History-Social Science Framework;
- A $150 stipend for full participation;
- Spanish language resources;
- Key concepts for integrating environmental literacy into your classroom; and
- A 1-day follow-up meeting during the academic year.
Integrating Civics: A Pilot Program with Salinas Teacher Leaders:Sept. 5, 2019
This initial day starts a year-long collaborative project with Salinas Unified staff and teacher leaders in implementing civics education across grades 7-12.
Location: Salinas Unified School District, Salinas CA
Irvine, CA: California History Social Science Framework Conference:Sept. 10, 2019
One of a series of conferences across California, focused on Framework implementation. Choose from more than 20 different Framework-related topics, including the FAIR Act, world history, Native Californians, and special sessions designed specifically for elementary teachers and school administrators. Click here to see the full list of sessions and scheduled presenters.
Dates: September 10, 2019
Location:UC Irvine
Time: 8:00 am – 3:30 pm
Registration: Registration costs $225 and is payable via credit card or school purchase order. If you are interested in attending, reserve your spot today, as our last round of conferences sold out quickly. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and parking. Register here.
XITO Institute: Ethnic Studies and Community Education:Sept. 20-21, 2019
Educators and community members alike are invited to join this conference to learn about Ethnic Studies and social justice-centered pedagogy. The Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing (XITO)Institute will provide professional development training for educators and organizers on September 20 & 21, 2019, at the Hartnell East Campus. The XITO team of experts has decades of experience designing, and teaching, innovative, state standards-based curriculum that is specifically rooted for the communities that we serve today.
Sign up now! Scholarships are available. Contact Phillip Tabera at ptabera@hartnell.edu with questions.
XITO Institute Scholarship Application 2019
Meet-up, 1619 Project:Oct. 2, 2019
What is the 1619 Project? What associated resources exist for K-12 teachers? How might you use it in your classroom? Join us in informal conversation and collaboration about this New York Times produced Project commemorating the arrival of the first non-free Africans on the East Coast 400 years ago. We will introduce the Project and then have collaborative and study time to think about integrating these resources into your curriculum. Register here for this no-cost event so we can provide parking permits and snacks. McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz.
This is the first of a series of “meet-ups” that will address current topics in teaching history and social science. These meet-ups are designed to provide both physical space and temporal space to pause and think together about implications of late-breaking news or resources for the classroom. Participants will choose the best way to spend the bulk of their time for these meet-ups, working together in large or small groups or individually with support. Join us!
Implementing the Framework: Region 5 Community of Practice CLIC Events:Oct. 11, 2019
Open Registration.
This series of three days over the academic year will focus on implementing the Framework and its emphasis on content, literacy, inquiry, and citizenship, or CLIC. Learn more and register herefor this free series of events focused on engaging students in content and literacy-rich history and social science investigations!
Location:Monterey County Office of Education
Audience:K-12 Teachers, Administrators and Paraprofessionals
Cost:Free
Dates:October 11, 2019
Flyer:CLIC Project Region 5 HSS 2019-2020
Visalia, CA: California History Social Science Framework Conference:Oct. 17, 2019
We’re proud to announce a new series of conferences across California, focused on Framework implementation.
Choose from more than 20 different Framework-related topics, including the FAIR Act, world history, Native Californians, and special sessions designed specifically for elementary teachers and school administrators.
Draft agenda with session information for the conference.
Date:October 17, 2019
Location:Tulare County Office of Education, Visalia, CA.
Time: 8:00 am – 3:30 pm
Registration:Registration costs $225 and is payable via credit card or school purchase order. If you are interested in attending, reserve your spot today, as our last round of conferences sold out quickly. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and parking. Register here.
Landscapes in History: Follow-Up Meeting:Oct. 19, 2019
McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz
No Registration Required.
October 19, 2019, 9:30-12:30
This is a follow-up meeting for the summer workshop sponsored by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program and the California Environmental Literacy Initiative.
Watsonville High School: Excellence in History/Social Science Teaching & Learning:Oct. 30, 2019
Implementing the HSS Framework.
Facilitated by the History and Civics Project at UCSC, this meeting will focus on the application of vision to practice in designing inquiry-based lessons for the academic year. Subsequent meetings will focus on teachers designing lessons and purposefully analyzing student work.
History-Social Science Community of Practice: Region 5 Kick-off: Oct. 22, 2019
Launch event for the CLIC (Content, Literacy, Inquiry and Citizenship) Project focusing on History-Social Science Framework implementation. Region 5 includes Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. See herefor more information and to register for this event.
Integrating Civics: A Pilot Program with Salinas Teacher Leaders: Nov. 7, 2019
The second meeting of a year-long collaborative project between the UCSC History and Civics Project and the Salinas Unified staff and teacher leaders focusing on implementing civics education across grades 7-12.
Location: Salinas Unified School District, Salinas CA
Date: Nov. 7, 2019
Timeline
Teaching History Conference at UCLA
History-Social Science Community of Practice Workshop
Conference: California Council for the Social Studies
Civics, Language & Literacy
MA/Credential Alumni Event
Implementing the Framework in High School Classrooms
CA H-SS Network Conversation
National Voter Registration Day
High School Voter Education Weeks
Constitution Day
