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Professional Development for US History

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Last Modified March 10, 2025
Description Explore a wide variety of professional learning experiences that support making the most of our US History Curriculum Collection.
Professional Learning

Teaching the US Founding: An Inquiry-Based Approach

This webinar explores our C3-aligned inquiry in which students consider the complexities and contradictions in the history of the founding of the US.

Outside of the classroom view of students and teacher.
Professional Learning

Borders and Belonging in U.S. History: The Angel Island Immigration Station

In this webinar, Dr. Erika Lee & Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation staff explored the history of Asian exclusion and our new C-3 style inquiry on Angel Island.

Immigrants arriving at Angel Island.
Professional Learning

Teaching Reconstruction: A Conversation with Dr. Kidada Williams

Join us for this recorded conversation with writer and historian, Dr. Kidada Williams, as we discuss her research on African Americans’ fight for liberty and equality during and after the Civil War and Reconstruction era. 

Picture of Dr. Kidada Williams.
Professional Learning

Reexamining Reconstruction: A Conversation with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Examine how the Reconstruction Era is remembered and the impact of its legacy on contemporary society with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University and scholar of African American history and contemporary Black politics.

A teacher speaking to a table of four students
Professional Learning

Unsung Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Examine the impact of Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Constance Baker Motley, and other women whose contributions to the Civil Rights Movement have not always been recognized.

Fannie Lou Hamer black & white photo
Professional Learning

Teaching Japanese American Incarceration in WWII: An Inquiry-Based Approach

During this webinar, we explored our C3-aligned inquiry focusing on Japanese American Incarceration in WWII.

Manzanar, California. Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration.
Professional Learning

Choices in Little Rock Workshop: An Approach to Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

This self-paced online workshop will introduce you to the Choices in Little Rock unit and help prepare you to teach this unit in your classroom.

Teacher and students in conversation group