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Eastern Region Update
April 2019
Call to Action

  • TPS Eastern Region Conference - Make sure your project is represented. See details below.
  • Ideas, Activities, and Plans TPS Eastern Region just released an online collection with over 300 TPS Lesson Plans, Units, PD Plans, Activities, and Book Backdrops to engage and empower students. This vetted searchable database of teacher-created resources is your source of inspiration for primary-source-driven teaching across the curriculum. Check it out!
Welcome New Grantees


Connecting Students with Local History through the Library of Congress  provides comprehensive professional development. Participants do a deep dive into the extensive holdings in the Library’s collections and design an inquiry unit that includes multiple primary sources from the Library of Congress.
Upcoming Events
2019 Eastern Region Conference
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 18 and 19
Pittsburgh, PA
  • 1 representative per project
  • Register now to ensure your project is represented.
Saturday, May 11, 2019 9AM to 4PM
Bard MAT Offices (Bard Alumni/ae Center, 4604 NY-9G, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504)

The poet’s public image will be the frame of reference for reconsidering well-known poems by these two Jazz Age writers, Edna Millay and Langston Hughes. We will examine photographs and listen to recordings held in the Library of Congress digital archives and begin to develop new lesson ideas with TPS classroom materials. Please bring a laptop or tablet. 

Cost: Free! Includes coffee and light snacks.
Deadline to sign up: Friday, May 3
To Register: Contact Laura Gust with the subject line "Millay and Hughes Registration"
Include: your name, preferred email, school affiliation and mailing address, phone number, and event confirmation.
In Other News

In case you missed it, the webinar recordings, See, Think, and Wonder by KidCitizen and Placing Primary Sources by the Virginia Geographic Alliance, are available on the TPS Eastern Region website.

Dr. O'Malley was recognized in the NCSS Member Spotlight for the NCSS Newsletter: Advocacy Edition. Read the article here.

Participatory Methodologies to Elevate Children's Voice and Agency is a volume of the Research in Global Child Advocacy Series which explores participatory methodologies and tools that involve children in research. Perspectives on the role of children have transitioned from viewing children as objects of research, to children as subjects of research, to acknowledgement of children as competent contributors and agents throughout the inquiry process. The book launched at the 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada.

Crowdsourcing the Social Studies was featured in the NCSS Social Education March/April newsletter. The article discusses the benefits of crowdsourcing social studies projects and their importance in transforming and democratizing access to historical records.

What's New about Fake News? Integrating Digital History for Media Literacy was featured in the NCSS Social Education March/April newsletter. The article discusses how examining selected digital historical records can be a highlight for students and how their emphases, distortions, or omissions can influence perceptions of events.

Dr. Rich Cairn and Alison Noyes presented "Teaching Controversy in the Classroom:
Immigration in 2019" at the Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies (NERC). The presentation is grounded in part on the November/December 2018 issue of Social Education from the National Council for the Social Studies. Presentation resources at https://goo.gl/vBqcMg.

On April 30 the focus will be on Innovation and the U.S. Patent System-- To Promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts. The May 2 webinar will be Challenging the Sun: The Invention and Adoption of Electric Lighting. Both are offered at 7 PM Eastern, and provide teachers with a letter for continuing education credit. Register here. Contact Laura Wakefield
Title: [Flowers]
Source Collection: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
Created/Published:[between 1898 and 1946]
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