Scholarly Presentations

Recorded Presentations:

• Reuben Henriques, Using DESE’s “Guiding Principle 2” for teaching social studies with a critical, inclusive, and responsive focus. USE PASSCODE: fLca=w$3 (15 minutes)

• Llana Barber, History of Latino Immigration in Lawrence, MA (58minutes)

• Robert Forrant, Overview of Immigration History in Essex County, 1840-present (38 minutes)

• Brian Sheehy, History of Irish immigration in Lawrence, MA (39 minutes)

• Glennys Sanchez, Techniques for Creating a Safe/Brave Space for Difficult Classroom Conversations. USE PASSCODE: bi=Y%B21 (12 minutes)

• Brian Sheehy and North Andover High Students Putting it into Practice (16 minutes)

Click here for information on the facillitators and speakers.

We have included many primary sources related to our theme on this website and we will be looking at some of these more in-depth at the workshop. In addition to the typical ways we might interrogate a source with students (identifying author, purpose, time/context) you may want to start to think about how might we use these sources to help us become more inclusive, responsive and critical (as outlined in DESE’s guiding principle 2) as we approach our teaching of immigration.

Additional Reading

This article by Llana Barber which outlines some of the important take-aways from her larger work, Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000