Tentative Agenda (subject to change)
9:00 - 9:15
Registration --Zoom opens, Participants enter. Add name/grade level/location in the chat (optional)
9:15 - 9:30
Opening Remarks
9:30 - 9:45
Q&A Session: Questions, establish where we are as a group.
9:45 -10:30
Teaching Through - and With - Historical Tensions.
Ed Ayers
Executive Director, New American History and
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities, University of Richmond
Annie Evans
Director of Education and Outreach, New American History, University of Richmond.
10:30-10:45
Break/Q&A Session
10:45 - 11:30
Advocating for the Teaching of Honest History: What Teachers Can Do.
Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn
Assoc. Director, Learning in Schools, Learning for Justice, Southern Poverty Law Center.
11:30 - 11:45
Break/Q&A Session
11:45 - 12:30
Teaching Social Studies in Anxious Times.
Maureen Costello
Exec. Director, Center for Anti-Racist Education, Stand for Children Leadership Center.
12:30 - 12:45
Break/Q&A Session
12:45 - 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 - 1:45
Welcome Address
Sally Hudson
Delegate (District 57), Virginia General Assembly. Asst. Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia
1:45 - 2:30
Honesty in Education: Protecting the Truth
Taisha C. Steele, Ed.S.
Director of Human and Civil Rights, Virginia Education Association
2:30 - 3:30
Student Panel Discussion
Alexis Mason
Instructional Coach, Charlottesville High School.
Yahusef Medina
Associate Director of Community Initiatives, Virginia Humanities.
3:30 - 4:00
Teacher Sharing/Resource Review
4:00 - 4:15
Closing Remarks
*preliminary agenda, subject to change