Program

2023 SOURCES Conference Program
Saturday, January 21, 2023
(pdf version of the program)

8:30 – 9:00 am - Registration and Light Breakfast
(In Teaching Academy Lobby)

9:00- 9:50 am - Welcome and General Session

Engaging SOURCES Graphically: Exploring the Civil Rights Movement through Library of Congress Primary Sources and Graphic Novels

Daniella Ann Cook
University of South Carolina

Civil rights education often presents a narrow, top-down approach to teaching the movement. Likewise, the biographies of ‘leaders’ most taught, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, are sanitized versions that limit an accurate understanding of the movement. In this session, participants will learn how TPS resources can be combined in culturally relevant ways with graphic novels to transform how the civil rights movement is taught to middle and high school students.

10:00- 10:50 am - Session I Presentations

Lost at Sea: Weaving a Miracle through Primary Sources
Paul Binford
Mississippi State University

This session spotlights an amazing story from World War II involving eight men lost at sea for 23 days. Participants will weave the miracle of their survival through primary sources.

There is No Revolution like the Haitian Revolution
Antoinette Rochester
Tina Heafner
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Haitian Revolution is an iconic representation of the power of resistance. Therefore, it is necessary to include meaningful, diverse primary sources to teach said revolution to encourage historical inquisition.

Colorized Sources- Bringing the Past to the Present
Nicole Lathrop
Apryl Taylor
Orange County Public Schools

Participants will learn about analyzing sources that are colorized. The resulting images bring the extraordinary scenes from the past to the present.

Visual Thinking Strategy and Primary Sources (Handout and Presentation)
Adam Klaskow
Pinellas Gulf Coast Academy

Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS) uses art and/or visual texts to teach visual literacy, critical thinking, and communication. As a high engagement strategy, VTS helps students grapple with art via structured verbal discussions. Teachers can use VTS in a variety of settings and it takes minimal planning. This highly engaging session will feature a demonstration of VTS, interesting primary sources, and practical applications.

Activities for Close Reading Primary Sources (Presentation)
Melissa Starkey
Central Baptist College

This session will include hands-on and interactive strategies to use with a variety of source types in order to engage students in learning, develop critical thinking skills, and construct knowledge.

Action Citizen: How can digital technology make inquiry more engaging and accessible?
Elizabeth Osborn
Indiana University

Build inquiry skills through digital analysis of primary sources and game-based learning. These free materials help students understand our government and prepares them for active citizenship. These resources work well with individual/group work or in person/virtual learning. Attendees can participate with or without devices.

11:00 - 11:50 - Session II Presentations

Differing Perspectives/Examining Arguments (Presentation)
Judy Lindquist
University of Central Florida

This session presenter will show how educators can help students to delve deeply into the Indian Removal Act by examining the primary documents of opposing positions.

Gloves Off, Hands On Documents
Tracy Newman
Pinellas County Schools

Kids have been online for a long time, missing out on hands-on, active learning. Let's take off our gloves of caution and get our hands dirty -- with historical documents! Come learn engaging strategies for close-reads for struggling readers.

Star Wars: A New Hope for Primary Analysis (Presentation)
Matt Stevenson
University of Tennessee

This presentation is a demonstration on the use of film in social studies classrooms as a primary source in order to provide a model for extending discussion of social and cultural issues.

Activating Enrichment Through DBQ
Amber Godwin
Sam Houston State University

DBQs are an excellent way to apply critical reading, critical thinking, social/emotional skill building, and analytical writing skills. This session will explore that instructional method as a medium for activating enrichment through this inquiry-based instructional methodology.

Unpacking Racial Violence and Place: Using Sources to Examine The Wilmington Race Massacre (Presentation)
Lisa Buchanan – Elon University
Denise Ousley
The University of North Carolina Wilmington
Donyell Roseboro
The University of North Carolina Wilmington
Cara Ward - The University of North Carolina Wilmington

This interdisciplinary session explores teaching racial violence in grades 4-12 using primary and secondary sources about the Wilmington Race Massacre and grounded in Muhammad’s historically responsive literacy and King’s Black historical consciousness framework.

Don’t Make Me Repeat Myself: Teaching Contextualization to Effect Change
Jennifer Jaso
Kacie Nadeau
Tammara Purdin
Florida Council for History Education

The presenters will use primary sources and pedagogy to inform and inspire discourse about history. Using historical thinking skills, participants will experience how to perceive the past through a contextual lens to broaden perspective and effect change.

11:50 – 1:10 pm - LUNCH – On Your Own

1:10- 2:00 pm - Session III Presentations

Using Stereographic Images and Primary Sources to Analyze the Civil War’s Atlanta Campaign (Handout and Presentation)
Emma O'Connor & Kenny Anthony
Mississippi State University

Stereographic images were the original virtual reality. In this hands-on session, presenters will provide strategies for using stereographs in the social studies classroom, with Civil War images as examples.

Almost Heaven (Resources and Presentation)
Jason Allen
Shepherd University

Using Library of Congress resources, this presentation will focus on West Virginia's easternmost counties, Berkeley & Jefferson, and how their histories can be integrated into social studies lessons.

Plainest Demands of Justice: Discourse & The African American Experience (Presentation)
Joe Schmidt
Bill of Rights Institute

Using discourse strategies and primary source analysis, the Bill of Rights Institute explores the efforts to realize the Founding principles of liberty, equality, and justice by exploring key periods in African American history.

Developing Visual Literacy (Presentation)
Melinda Staubs
Jacksonville State University

This presentation focuses on using different strategies to enhance visual literacy.  Participants will take part in various strategies designed to enhance visual literacy of primary sources.  Strategies discussed can be adapted for use in elementary through high school.

Doing Inquiries through a Sneak Peak of the NCSS – Teaching with Primary Sources Book Project (Presentation)
Ken Carano
Western Oregon University

This interactive session shares methods for including diverse lenses while analyzing primary sources, through inquiry and provides an overview of the forthcoming NCSS – Teaching with Primary Sources book.

Putting Primary Sources First
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services

Primary sources expose students to multiple perspectives on important topics and issues of the past and present and help them to develop critical inquiry skills. This interactive session will introduce teachers to a variety of source analysis tools to support their instruction.

2:10- 3:00 pm - Session IV Presentations

Engaging STEM Through Primary Source Inquiry
Laurie Boulden
Warner University

What is a natural disaster? Investigate through a 5-Step Inquiry Process connecting Social Studies and STEM. Brainstorm to develop additional primary source-based learning experiences.

Civic Action through Primary Sources in “Civics! An American Musical” (Presentation)
Peter Stidwill
FableVision - Executive Producer

Inspired by "Hamilton," players analyze primary sources and create their own historically-accurate musical production in the new learning game, "Civics! An American Musical."

Teaching the Language of Inquiry
Casey Cullen & Alison Noyes
Westborough High School & Collaborative for Educational Services

What do ELL levels mean for teaching? Learn about our initiative to create a “Rosetta Stone” document with illustrative examples for history teachers that translates ESL learning objectives into engaging history activities with primary sources.

Coming to America: The Jewish Immigration Experience (1880-1924)
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services

Learn the context for Jewish immigration to the United States between 1880-1924 through an interactive session that highlights the factors influencing this group’s entry into the country and its relation to the larger immigrant story of the U.S.

The "EFFECT" of Primary Source Analysis
Vernon Turner
Monica  J. Hacker Hadwin
Brad Brazell
University of South Carolina

Through the lens of Hattie’s meta-analysis of effect sizes on student learning, our presentation addresses how primary source analysis in the K-12 classroom supports multiple best practices for student learning.

3:00 - 3:20 pm - Refreshment Break- TA 130

3:20 - 4:10 pm - Session V Presentations

STEM and SOURCES (Presentation)
Anna Holmes
Pontotoc City Schools

Nicole Miller
Mississippi State University

Using a variety of primary sources, learn how to teach a cross curricular lesson from Natural Disasters to STEM. STEM and Sources provide the engagement, thinking skills, and inquiry needed!

A Nation Divided: Women’s Participation in the American Civil War (Handout)
Molly DePippo
New-York Historical Society

Discover primary sources and classroom-ready activities from the New-York Historical Society’s Women & the American Story curriculum that illustrate women’s integral roles in the Civil War.

Desegregation on Wheels: Busing for School Integration
Karon LeCompte
Katherine Beech
Kevin Magill
Baylor University

Vice-President Kamala Harris boarded a school bus in the fall of 1969 to attend Thousand Oaks Elementary School in an affluent part of North Berkeley. Presenters will discuss segregation through busing by sharing primary documents as we collectively reflect on a time of institutional racism through transportation.

Promoting Equity In The Humanities Classroom
Mike Williams
National Humanities Center

The session will focus on the illuminating power of the Humanities to promote equity in the K12 classroom, provide a voice to diverse experiences and advance conversations around compelling topics. Attendees will receive an overview of the Humanities In Class programming with a specific focus on the use of primary sources in annual webinar series, online course catalog, and upcoming institutes. Above all, this session will highlight meaningful professional development opportunities that encourage Florida teachers to engage with NHC scholarship as colleagues, collaborators, and partners.

Leveraging Historical Sources and Sites in Place Based Education (Presentation)
Sam Martin
Megan Malone
Ally Shibata
Eliza Witt
Lisa Buchanan
Elon University

This interactive session will explore how session participants can develop inquiry using local historical sites and related sources. Participants will receive access to our digital resources.

Building Capacity for Student Agency: How have Americans Used Sports as a Tool for Agency or Civic Engagement?
Tammara Purdin
Florida Council for History Education

This presentation will examine multiple perspectives of how Americans have used sports to show agency; and will show how to engage, empower, and encourage students to become civically engaged.

Historian as Detective - An Introduction to Historical Methodology
Michael Gavrish
Retired from Pinkerton Academy

The presenter will provide a series of 10 mini class activities with participants as students.  Topics include primary vs. secondary sources, evaluating witnesses, analyzing documents, and other approaches associated with teaching with primary sources.