February 2019
Topics:
Content:
Topics:
- Historical Asheville Cartoons
- Boys and Reading Workshop
- MS/HS Vertical PLCs
- Black History Month Resources
- 7th Textbook through Clever
- Book Study: Just Mercy (with update - in italics)
- Orienteering Geography
- NCCSS Social Studies Conference
- 42nd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference
- History Day Call For Judges
- Calendar
Content:
- Historical Asheville Cartoons
- Former AB Tech history instructor David Dry, create this very cool website, Ashevillecartoonist, “cataloging Asheville newspaper cartoons from 1907-1928 by cartoonist Billy Borne…. lots of cartoons on presidential elections, prohibition, women's suffrage, WWI, etc. and all from a local perspective.”
- Boys and Reading Workshop
- Are your male students struggling to engage and access text? Are some of them disinterested or even disruptive? Kenny McKee and I have planned an online PD to help with this. In this online course, participants will read and discuss research - including excerpts from Reading Don't Fix No Chevys, engage in digital discussions with colleagues, and develop a plan of action.
- The PD will run from 3/4 - 5/6 and will provide 1.0 Literacy CEU. Each week we will explore a text or two and discuss how this applies to our classroom practices; participants should expect to spend approximately one hour each week on this course. Please indicate your interest here: Improving Adolescent Male Reading.
- MS/HS Vertical PLCs
- Please let me know if you would like to do a vertical PLC between middle and high school teachers on an upcoming Early Release Day (ERD). Two potential dates are 3/27 (an unattached ERD) or 4/30 (PLC ERD). This is totally optional and we would need permission from admins of both schools before dedicating a PLC ERD to this. I would support this through helping schools set norms, purposes, and, if need be, discussion topics.
- Black History Month Resources
- UNCA Professor Darin Waters Presents “Whose Story? Democratizing America’s Collective Memory” at Lenoir Rhyne University, Asheville on 2/28/19 at 6:30 pm.
- Bill of Rights: African Americans in the Gilded Age
- Everfi offers excellent resources for Black History Month: 306 - African-American History
- Freedom on the Move provides primary source documents in an attempt to compile “thousands of stories of [slave] resistance that have never been accessible in one place.”
- Two of the Center for Diversity Education Exhibits, Unmarked Trail and With All Deliberate Speed, focus on African American History in WNC. Contact me if interested.
- 7th Text through Clever
- Teachers and students should be able to access the 7th grade Contemporary Cultures textbook through Clever now. Classes should be automatically rostered for you. Please let me know if you hit any snags.
- Book Study: Just Mercy (with update - in italics)
- “In 2014, Bryan Stevenson’s book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption brought to the world a powerful story of the flagrant inequities in the American criminal justice system and the ways those inequities impact the lives of our society’s most vulnerable members.” - Dr. Patrick Bahls, UNCA. Stevenson will be speaking at UNCA on Thursday, 4/25. In preparation for that event, I am partnering with UNCA and the Center for Diversity Education to coordinate a book study of the text. The book study will involve two face-to-face to meetings prior to the 4/25 event as well as opportunities for virtual dialogue. UNCA will cover the cost of the book. The first meeting date will be announced as soon as I know when we will have books from UNCA. Participation in the Book Club and event will earn 1.5 Content CEUs. Please indicate your interest in this here: Book Study: Just Mercy.
- Orienteering Geography
- I am working on a method for teaching Geography called Orienteering and I would be interested in working with a class. Orienteering includes A. Identifying where the new location exists in relation to one's current location B. Analyzing how the physical geography would make life for people there similar and different from one's life in current location C. Analyzing how the human geography of that location would make life similar and different from life in current location. With students, the more personal the better - analyzing how the life of a 13 year old would be similar and different, for example. This practice creates proximity and relevance for students as they then begin to study history tied to that location. Please let me know if you would like for me to teach this with one of your classes.
- NCCSS Social Studies Conference
- The 49th Annual Social Studies Conference will be taking place on Thursday, February 28th thru Friday, March 1st in Greensboro at the Koury Convention Center. The Theme for the conference is "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Building the Future of Social Studies”. Register to attend the 2019 NCCSS conference
- I will sub for one teacher if you want to go and explore finding sub coverage for others, though due to budget cuts conference registration fees, and travel expenses would need to be covered by you or your school. Please let me know if you can and would like to attend.
- 42nd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference
- This will be at UNCA from 3/14 - 3/17. I will explore finding sub coverage if you want to attend. Click here for details: 42nd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference. Please let me know if you can and would like to attend.
- History Day Call For Judges
- Interested in judging the Western Region History Day Competition? Find out more here: History Day Call For Judges
- Calendar
- 2/18/19 3:30 - 5:00 Central Office- PLC Leadership Team
- 2/25/19 Early Release Day
- 2/28/19 6:30 PM Darin Waters: “Whose Story? Democratizing America’s Collective Memory” at Lenoir Rhyne University, Asheville
- 3/8/19 PLC Early Release Day
- 3/11/19 Optional Teacher Workday
- 3/14 - 3/17/19 42nd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference at UNCA