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Upcoming Conferences and Institutes for People's History Teachers in 2020
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Here is a list of 2020 conferences and institutes where you can meet fellow teachers from the Zinn Education Project.
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Conferences and Institutes
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Bring people's history to more educators by proposing and facilitating workshops at these events. Several have upcoming deadlines:
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The workshops will address a range of topics including Indigenous Perspectives and Climate Change; Climate Movement Art; The Climate Crisis and Poetry; and more. Presenters include
Rethinking Schools editors Bill Bigelow (also Zinn Education Project co-director) and Linda Christensen.
(And be sure to see our Teach Climate Justice materials at the ZEP website.)
Date: Feb. 29, 2020
Location: Surrey, British Columbia
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The
New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) conference is designed as a space for educators to "freedom dream as a way of healing ourselves, our schools, and our communities while living in a world that currently feels so broken." The NYCoRE conference is held every other year.
Date: March 21, 2020
Location: New York, NY
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Organization of American Historians (OAH) Conference
The Zinn Education Project will have a booth at the conference and Teaching for Change will offer a teacher workshop.
Date: April 2-5, 2020
Location: Washington, D.C.
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SNCC Legacy Project 60th Anniversary Conference
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Legacy Project
is
hosting a conference to bring together SNCC veterans and contemporary youth activists with a focus on organizing and voting rights.
Dates: April 16 -19, 2020
Location: Washington, D.C.
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The
Civil Rights Movement institute is co-led by the SNCC Legacy Project, Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, and Teaching for Change. The goal is to convene 30 experienced people's history teachers who can learn together from veterans and scholars of the Southern Freedom Movement and write curriculum.
Dates: July 6-24, 2020
Location: Durham, NC
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3rd Annual Teaching Black History ("Herstories") Conference
Workshops will focus on the conference's theme, Teaching Black Herstories.
Deadline to Propose a Session: Feb. 29, 2020
Dates: July 24-25, 2020
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Northwest Teachers for Social Justice Conference
NWTSJ hosts and organizes
an annual conference for teachers, teacher educators, and interested community members in the Northwest.
Deadline to Propose a Session: Conference organizers will start accepting workshop proposals in
April 2020.
Date: Oct. 17, 2020
Location: Portland, OR
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National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
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NCSS Annual Conference is the largest annual gathering of K-12 social studies classroom teachers, teacher educators, district and state social studies supervisors, and more.
The Zinn Education Project will have a booth at the conference and offer people's history workshops.
Deadline to Propose a Session: Feb. 10, 2020
Dates: Dec. 4-6, 2020
Location: Washington, D.C.
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Winter 2020 Issue of
Rethinking Schools
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Teach the Vietnam War and Receive 10 Copies of
The Whistleblower's Handbook
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The Zinn Education Project will send a box of 10 copies of The New Whistleblower's Handbook to every teacher who shares a classroom story about how you use any or all of the lessons from the free guide Teaching the Vietnam War: Beyond the Headlines.
This teaching guide contains eight lessons about the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers, and whistleblowing.
We welcome your classroom story about any one or more of these lessons, in detail.
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PO BOX 73038, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20056
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