Name: Teach Disability History: We Can and We Must - An imperative for civics learning.
Start: 2023-03-08T19:00:00-0500
End: 2023-03-08T20:00:00-0500

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Massachusetts Civic Learning Week (March 6-10, 2023)!

Civic Learning Week 2023 seeks to highlight the importance of civic education in sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States.

By highlighting the civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions that provide the foundation for an informed and engaged populace, Civic Learning Week seeks to further energize the movement for renewed civic education across Massachusetts and the nation.

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Teach Disability History: We Can and We Must - An imperative for civics learning.

This event is organized by Emerging America.

Join educators and disability advocates as we share compelling stories of disability rights activists across 200 years of history and ways you can support disability history today.
The new Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum offers free, online, 23 inclusive lessons with 200+ primary sources. Topics include Moral Reformers, Disability Rights Movement, and fully inclusive Civics Projects. A unit on disabled Civil War veterans and nurses who served them features Massachusetts stories, supported by the Expand Massachusetts Stories program of Mass Humanities. Learn about the grassroots Easterseals Massachusetts #TeachDisabilityHistory campaign.
Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant.

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Speakers

Host Organization Collaborative for Educational Services - Emerging America
Topic Civic Participation, Curriculum/Pedagogy, History, Youth Voice
EAD Pedagogical Principles Principle 5: Practice of Constitutional Democracy and Student Agency
EAD Themes Theme 1: Civic Participation, Theme 3: We the People

Massachusetts Civic Learning Week 2023

Rich Cairn

Graham Warder

Desiree Forte

Ross Newton

Katherine Stevens

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