Teaching History while Living History
Cultural Organizations Dedicated to Educators (C.O.D.E.) offered the following four workshops for teachers during the winter of 2021. Session Materials and recordings available below.
Teaching History While Living History: A Professional Development series for K12 educators
Series Dates: January 26 to March 10, 2021
Brought to you by CODE (Cultural Organizations Dedicated to Educators!)
This year, teaching history will be like no other. Join educators from 14 institutions from around the country to explore topics and teaching strategies that illuminate connections between our past and present for your classroom. Session topics include Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, Media and Visual Culture, Racism, and Public Memory. Each session includes historical content and transferable pedagogy strategies for classrooms.
Session #1: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship (Zoom)
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021 from 6:00-7:00 p.m. (EST)
This session explores the role of individuals within a healthy democracy. Participants will receive access to key resources, a richer understanding of specific moments in history, and steps for facilitating student-led, teacher-directed civic engagement projects.
Presented by the National WWII Museum, Tsongas Industrial History Center, the White House Historical Association, and the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Reception Rooms.
Session #2: Revising the Record on Race: Three Moments from the Civil War in Public Memory (Zoom)
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021 from 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (EST)
This session explores how people who lived through the Civil War revised and reshaped that event’s legacy—particularly on race. Participants will learn how their revisions influence our current understandings and reflect on best practices for teaching the history of events in our own living memory.
Presented by The Mark Twain House & Museum, President Lincoln’s Cottage, and Ford’s Theatre.
Session #3: Whose Legacy? Inquiries into the Voices of the Founding Era (platform TBD)
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 from 5:00 pm - 6:00 p.m. (EST)
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This session explores the contradictions in the legacies of the ‘founding fathers’ between their fight for freedom and their benefit from slavery and the effect of race and slavery on the new nation. Participants will discuss how educators can help students ask better questions as they consider and discuss broader perspectives on how new Americans saw their country.
Presented by George Washington’s Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.
Session #4: Media and Visual Culture: Politics, Influence, and Technology (platform TBD)
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. (EST)
This session explores the importance of visual and material culture and what role technology has played in the distribution of that culture. Participants will examine primary sources covering 200 years, from the American Revolution through the twentieth century, and discuss how to use them in a digital learning environment .
Presented by the American Antiquarian Society, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, and the National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institutions.
Please expect a confirmation email one week before the event and on the day-of with the video conference session link.