2020 SOURCES Conference Program
8:30 – 9:00 am - Registration and Light Breakfast
(In Teaching Academy Lobby)
9:00- 10:00 am - Welcome and General Session
The Way It's Viewed is How It's Pursued: Exploring Perspective and Point of View with Primary Sources from The Library of Congress
Sherry Levitt and Cynthia Szwajkowski - Teaching with Primary Sources – Virginia
The focus of this general session will be on approaches for analyzing primary sources for point of view and how they can provide historical and cultural context. Methods for engaging students in active exploration of real world challenges and problems will be modeled.
10:10- 11:00 am - Session I Presentations
Gravestones as a Primary Source
Hailee Martin - Lunenburg Middle-High School
Graves teach students a lot about a given time in history. They can show religious trends, illnesses, war, and much more! The presenter will demonstrate this and how graves can also highlight the importance of historic preservation and respectfulness of history.
Women's Education in the Early Republic: Contextualizing Socio-Cultural Barriers
Kacie Nadeau - Sarasota County Schools
Women's education in the 18th century situates the socio-cultural norms in a new democracy. Examining primary and secondary sources extends the traditional narrative of the plight for women's rights.
A Proud Daughter's Words: Teaching Young Children to Analyze Primary Sources from the Library of Congress Rosa Parks Collection
Ilene Berson, Michael Berson, and Bert Snow - University of South Florida and Snow & Co
The presenters will demonstrate how to use visual images and text from the Library of Congress Rosa Parks Collection to foster critical literacy skills among young learners. Strategies for engaging early elementary grade children with a new KidCitizen episode will be explored.
AI (Arab-Israeli): There's Nothing Artificial About This Conflict
Dori Gerber - Institute for Curriculum Services
The Arab-Israeli conflict is in the news every day and understanding it is critical to being a global citizen. With an emphasis on primary sources, this session addresses the historical foundation of the conflict.
C-Span in the Classroom
Arren Swift - Sam Houston State University
Learn how to use C-SPAN educational resources in your classroom and develop your own content.
11:10 - Noon - Session II Presentations
The Power of Agentic Women and SOURCES
Tammara Purdin and Carol LaVallee - Florida Council for History Education
The participants will learn how to use the SOURCES Framework for Teaching with Primary and Secondary Sources to engage students in historical thinking, with the focus of the session being on contextualizing and sourcing. The presenters will demonstrate how to navigate the Library of Congress website and how best to utilize the various resources offered there.
The Power of Text Sets: Helping Students Question History
Jennifer Cooley and Stefanie Wager - State Historical Society of Iowa and Iowa Department of Education
Participants will learn about text sets that use compelling, supporting, and text dependent questions to emphasize multiple perspectives and how to develop their own text sets.
The Power of the Poster: Connecting Lessons to WPA Posters from the Library of Congress Collection
Erin Elman and Stormy Vogel - The University of the Arts
Through the use of the Library of Congress digitized images of WPA posters, teachers can learn how to analyze and understand the meaning behind the prints and their significance in U.S. history.
Was the Boston Massacre Fake News? Examining multiple perspectives
Jamie Colver and Alivia Colver - Joseph L. Carwise Middle School and R. Bruce Wagner Elementary School
Attendees will carefully analyze the famous Boston Massacre engraving by Paul Revere as well as a variety of additional sources to recognize the value of looking at multiple perspectives of a Historical event.
The Longest Hatred: A Look at the History of Anti-Semitism
Dori Gerber - Institute for Curriculum Services
Where does anti-Semitism come from? This is a question that students often ask when learning about the Holocaust. This session utilizes primary sources to explain how anti-Semitism, "the longest hatred", has developed and shifted over time.
Civics and the Census: Why Everybody Counts
Elizabeth Osborn - Indiana University
CENSUS 2020 is quickly approaching! EVERYONE needs to be counted for Congressional representation, local districts, and because these figures are used to distribute a huge quantity of federal dollars and resources to your community. The presenter of this session will introduce digitized primary sources including historic documents, pictures, legislation, infographics, charts, and more!
Noon – 1:30 pm - LUNCH – On Your Own
1:30- 2:20 pm - Session III Presentations
The Power of Images: How Using Historical Photographs Can Help Teachers to Connect with Students' Culture and Heritage
Karen Burgard, Michael Boucher, Jr., and Caroline O'Quinn - Texas A&M University – San Antonio
Session participants will learn to use historical photographs and other primary sources from Library of Congress resources that reflect their students' culture and heritage, working to create culturally relevant classrooms.
Confronting Stereotypes and Erasure through Indigenous Voices
Ken Carano - Western Oregon University
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to create inquiry activities and lessons that incorporate contemporary indigenous voices and primary sources into the curriculum. The ability to identify indigenous literature and resources to use in the curriculum will also be covered.
Teaching English Learners Using Primary Sources
Rich Cairn - Collaborative for Educational Services
Social studies vocabulary and complex documents can be a challenge for English Learners. See ways that educators can use primary sources to help ELs gain the literacy skills for success!
Breaking Down Political Cartoons - TACOS
Matthew DeLorenzo - Osceola High School
The presenter will show how to utilize the TACOS framework (T = Title; A = Actions; C= Captions; O = Objects; S = Symbolism) in order to develop a deeper understanding of political cartoons in Social Studies. Participants will be given an opportunity to TACO a political cartoon.
First Amendment Project: Civic Literacy through Civil Dialogue
Mike Adams - National Constitution Center
Join the National Constitution Center to discover primary and secondary source teaching resources to help students build and discuss understandings of the origins and changing interpretations of the First Amendment.
2:30- 3:20 pm - Session IV Presentations
The La Florida Digital History Initiative: Bringing New Content to Florida Teachers
Rachel Sanderson, Jennifer Jaso, and Morgan Greig - University of South Florida St Petersburg and Sarasota County Schools
At laflorida.org, digital exhibits incorporate technologically advanced learning materials developed to make primary sources, including include a rich body of colonial-era maps that show Florida, accessible for a broad audience.
Hands on Ways to Use Visual Sources
Arren Swift - Sam Houston State University
Participants will explore six active learning strategies to explore visual images. The methods presented are designed to allow students to effectively and critically examine images in a variety of ways.
Shifting Our Focus: Using the Standpoints of Women, Culture, & Institutional Racism in Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
Daniella Cook and Karen Gavigan - University of South Carolina
As educators committed to a racially just, anti-racist democratic society, how might we understand and teach history more critically and help our students do the same? In this interactive session, educators will explore how to use the wealth of primary sources available through the Library of Congress to teach students about the ongoing struggle for Civil Rights and the contributions of African Americans to our democracy as a means to combat racial bigotry and white supremacy.
Zooming in to Primary Sources
Jacie Meyers - Ocean Springs Middle School
The presenter will discuss and demonstrate how to use Zoom-in and Visual Discovery as a unit hook. There will also be examples of ways of using primary sources in centers at the secondary level.
Talking About History: Strategies for Sparking Academic Discourse
Rachel Smith - Edgewater High School
Participants will explore research-based strategies, including the Harvard Case Study Method and Socratic seminars, for facilitating academic discourse.
Confronting "Hard" History using Primary Sources
Kara Knight - Minnesota Historical Society
There are many moments in history that inspire strong emotions. This session digs into how primary sources and culturally relevant pedagogy can help students investigate emotional stories from our past.
3:20 - 3:40 pm - Refreshment Break- TA 130
3:40 - 4:30 pm - Session V Presentations
Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources
Rich Cairn - Collaborative for Educational Services
Explore key strategies and practical tools to help students with disabilities (Special Education and others) learn and apply critical thinking skills. Tap free online resources to support instruction.
Seeking the Seminole Indians: Message Reserved in Photographs
Laurie Boulden - Warner University
A photograph may or may not reveal something about the subject. How can we know?
The Journey Box: Encouraging Activism Through Project-Based Learning
Tameka Parenti - University of South Florida
Participants will be given an opportunity to explore multicultural critical literacy skills through the analysis of minority groups during the Holocaust using background knowledge and primary and secondary sources to relate to minority groups to find activism against discrimination in today's society.
Using Primary Sources in an American History Class to Close the Achievement Gap of the Lower Quartile
Deborah Kaiser - Sarasota Middle School
The presenter will demonstrate how educators can increase the learning gains for the lower quartile student by using historical thinking skills, disciplinary literacy strategies, and primary sources to foster student engagement in history.
Women and the American Story: Confidence & Crises (1920-1948)
Marianne De Padua - New York Historical Society
Explore dynamic sources, traditionally-overlooked stories, and classroom-ready strategies about women’s roles in defining what it meant to be an American in 1920-1948, an era of economic, political, and social extremes.
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