The Misinfo Day California Media Literacy Event is for high school students to learn how to distinguish between fact and propaganda, build critical thinking skills, and become civically engaged. View and download the flyer here….Continue Reading Misinfo Day California 2025
Please join us at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History for food, information about using the Library of Congress teaching resources, and most importantly time and space for you to learn what other regional educators are doing in their classrooms and communities. This event is part of our “Contextualizing and Extending Source Based Lessons in the Monterey Bay Region”–a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program….Continue Reading Supper, Sources, and Sharing
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 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 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)
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