This year, the Los Angeles office of Facing History and Ourselves partnered with Los Angeles and Ventura County Offices of Education and the CLIC Project to bring a series of workshops to help social studies teachers integrate the FAIR Education Act into their teaching. This law requires teachers to give attention to inclusivity in classrooms and in the curricula, with specific visibility to the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and LGBTQ+ people.
This spring, we converted the workshops to do a two-part webinar series. For those who were unable to join the webinars live, here are the recordings and resources shared.
Here are the links shared during our webinar:
- Video: John Amaechi Discusses Identity
- Blog: “I am Disabled: On Identity-First Versus People-First Language”
- Blog: “How ‘Differently Abled’ Marginalizes Disabled People”
- Disability Language Style Guide from the National Center on Disability and Journalism
- Curriculum Guide for “Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights” from the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability
Going deeper with Facing History
In sharing Facing History's case study on the Eugenics Movement, we drew primarily from our resource book, Race and Membership in American History: the Eugenics Movement. You can download the entire resource book free on our website.
Making Gay History Podcast
- Primary website: https://makinggayhistory.com
- On-Demand Webinar: Bringing LGBTQ Upstanders into your Classroom, A Conversation with Eric Marcus
- Adult Learning Series connecting Facing History strategies and Making Gay History podcast episodes on our blog site, Learn+Teach+Share (while there, subscrirbe to our blog!)
Some Facing History resources which may be helpful in establishing an inclusive classroom environment:
- Identity Charts and related lesson
- 8 components of a Safe and Reflective Classroom
- Fostering Civil Discourse guide
- Contracting strategy
Additional resources:
- Video: The Lavender Scare
- Video: Brother Outsider (Bayard Rustin)
- Blog: Remembering Bayard Rustin
- On-Demand Webinar, Brother Outsider
- Unit: Eyes on the Prize
- Lesson: the Philosophy of Nonviolence
- One Archives lesson on Bayard Rustin by Facing History Teacher Leader, Sasha Guzman
- Choosing to Participate Toolkit, which includes short reading on Bayard Rustin read during the webinar
The slides for both of these webinars are available on Slideshare:
