Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers. Here are a few examples. Applications for all the institutes are due on March 1, 2019.
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Our "this day in history" series on social media introduces hundreds of thousands of people to the stories they did not learn in school. Here are the top 15 #tdih posts in 2018.
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We are pleased to share with you highlights from the Zinn Education Project this year. It is thanks to individual donors across the country that this work is possible.
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In 2018, teachers across the United States downloaded people’s history lessons from the Zinn Education Project website a total of 50,000 times. Here are the ten most frequently downloaded lessons. We need YOUR support so that we can reach more teachers with resources for teaching people’s history and add more lessons in 2019.
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Black Lives Matter at School is a national coalition of educators organizing for racial justice in schools. Although there are many ways educators can participate in the week of action, we hope educators will make a commitment to teach a wide variety of lessons centering Black history and literature
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We are pleased to introduce the new and improved Zinn Education Project website. Read about the new features, check out the site for yourself, and spread the word.
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Our team brought people’s history workshops and a booth full of teaching resources to the annual NCSS conference in Chicago on November 30 and December 1, 2018.
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Michael Charney received the Teaching People's History award for his vision and advocacy for the teaching of Reconstruction.
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The Zinn Education Project was thrilled to collaborate with the Durham Association of Educators (DAE) to bring our Teach Reconstruction campaign to teachers in North Carolina.
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Interview by 1A host Joshua Johnson of Howard University Professor Greg Carr and LeMoyne College Professor Doug Egerton.
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Are you familiar with the Camilla Massacre of 1868? Are your students? We want to share an opportunity to engage your students with research while also bringing to light an important piece of national history that happened in Georgia.
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October was a busy month for the Zinn Education Project in the Northwest, bringing people’s history workshops to teachers in Lincoln County Schools on the Oregon coast, to the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference in Portland, and to preservice teachers at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.
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Katie Orr joins the Zinn Education Project staff as Communications Manager.
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As part of the Durham Association of Educators' Saturday Leadership Academy, the Zinn Education Project will offer a workshop on teaching about Reconstruction. Teacher Organizer and Curriculum Writer Ursula Wolfe-Rocca will introduce two lessons.
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As you know, the Senate just confirmed a new Supreme Court Justice, hand-picked by the far-right Federalist Society. For hope and solace, activists have turned once again to the words of Howard Zinn — to remind us that in the end, it is the power of the people that leads to real change.
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Social media responses to attacks on A People's History by Sam Wineburg and Jonathan Chait.
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In 30 years of teaching, almost all my high school history students could name the fellow some say "discovered" America: Christopher Columbus. But none could name the people he supposedly discovered: the Taínos.
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High school teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca responds to the critique by Sam Wineburg of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and the teachers who use Zinn's work in their classrooms.
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You can help raise funds to bring people’s history resources to classrooms across the U.S. using Facebook.
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After attending a Zinn Education Project workshop on Reconstruction at the National Council of Social Studies annual conference in the fall of 2017, Esther Honda, a San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) librarian, was excited about the possibility of bringing a people's history workshop back to her district.
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We express our profound appreciation to Lauren Cooper for her pivotal role as founding coordinator for the Zinn Education Project.
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Although it has not received nearly enough mainstream media attention, a National Prison Strike was launched on Aug. 21 and ends on September 9. The 10 demands of the strike are a rich text for discussion in our classrooms, and raise important questions about history, citizenship, and human rights.
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On this 10th anniversary of the Zinn Education Project, we seek to hire a communications coordinator. The communications role is varied, including press, social media, conferences, materials production, website management, and internal communications.
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The world would be a better place if many more students engaged in debates of justice and retribution, radicalism and realism, equity and equality. Please help us reach our goal of signing up 100,000 teachers to bring people's history to the classroom in this new school year.
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Thanks to the generous support of a longtime Zinn Education Project (ZEP) supporter and those of you who donated to our campaign, we have hired a new teacher organizer for the 2018-2019 school year! We are excited to announce that Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, a ZEP teacher leader, will take on this position.
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