Joint Program with Teaching Tolerance

  

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This free program will feature three extraordinary resources, Teaching Hard History, The Illusion of Progress, and American Panorama. Participants will receive hands-on experience in using them, consider strategies for implementing them in classes, and address obstacles to such implementation. The program is a follow-up to the one we offered in 2018 and is open both to those who were not at that earlier program and those who were.

  • Maureen Costello and Monita Bell of Teaching Tolerance will present new elements of the Teaching Hard History resources and accompanying framework.
  • Renowned historian Edward Ayers will present related elements of the stunning mapping analysis program American Panorama.
  • James Perla and Lisa Woolfork of the University of Virginia will present some pedagogical applications for the Carter Woodson Institute’s remarkable The Illusion of Progress: Charlottesville’s Roots in White Supremacy, a hyper-local interactive site. 

These initial sessions will thus move from the national to the local. They will be followed, after a free lunch buffet provided to all participants, by:

  • break-out sessions for teachers by grade level, focused on specific classroom uses of the resources presented in the morning sessions;
  • the day will conclude with candid discussion of barriers and assets that affect implementation.

Participants will receive certificates of attendances and teaching materials associated with the resources. Registration open now at www.virginia.edu/cla

Agenda

  • 8:15-8:45 Registration, coffee, pastries (free parking)
  • 8:45-9: Introductions, context, and charge: Patrice Grimes, Curry School of Education, UVA
  • 9-10:45: Teaching Hard History—new resources: Monita Bell and Maureen Costello, Teaching Tolerance
  • 10:45-11: break
  • 11-11:45: American Panorama: Edward Ayers, University of Richmond
  • 11:45-12:30 The Illusion of Progress: James Perla, Carter Woodson Institute; Lisa Woolfork, UVA Department of English
  • 12:30-1:30: Lunch
  • 1:30-2:45: Breakout groups, classroom implementation, development of classroom resources
  • 2:45-3: break
  • 3-4: Teaching hard history in and about Richmond, Charlottesville, Virginia, and the United States, moderated by Patrice Grimes

Offered by the University of Virginia’s Center for Liberal Arts, in cooperation with the VA General Assembly African American Cultural Resources task force, and funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, this program features participants from the Carter G. Woodson Institute, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance Project, the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, the University of Virginia English Department, and the Curry School of Education.

When
Where
University of Richmond Alice Haynes Room Tyler Haynes Commons