Foothills American History Institute @ Hudson Falls

An Interactive Workshop for History Teachers

based on Authentic Professional Development

In collaboration with the Distinguished Lecturer Program

of the Organization of American Historians

Title: The Legacy of the Struggles to Overcome Jim Crow

and the Civil Rights Movement

Location: Hudson Falls High School, Hudson Falls, NY

East LaBarge Street

Main Auditorium

Date: 5/7/12, Monday

Time: 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Are present-day changes being implemented by state and federal governments creating a return to Jim Crow society? For decades, African Americans struggled under the realm of Jim Crow laws and segregation until momentum catapulted the struggle for equality into a Civil Rights Movement.  Today voting rights laws, economic recession, and incarceration are but a few of the measures having placing African Americans in a subordinate position in society.  Join this gathering of History teachers and students from regional schools to learn from a distinguished historian as well as share and create interactive lessons that will have immediate applicability.  This is the goal of the 2^nd annual Foothills American History Institute @ Hudson Falls.  During this authentic professional development, teachers will have the opportunity to learn about a topic that is driving the politics of today, and the lasting impact of the struggle for equality personified by the Civil Rights Movement, from a leading scholar. 

Educated at Yale University, Jonathan Holloway teaches African American Studies and United States history at Yale University.  He is the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002), the editor of Ralph Bunche's A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership (2005), and the co-editor of the anthology, Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the 20th Century (2007). He is presently working on his next monograph, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1941. He specializes in post-emancipation United States history with a focus on cultural and intellectual history. A recipient of the William Clyde DeVane Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College, he is currently an external fellow of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and a member of the 2011 cohort of Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellows. He is the master of Calhoun College, one of Yale’s twelve residential colleges and is currently also a Gilder Lehrman Institute Faculty-Instructor.

 Professor Holloway has planned an interactive forum that will encourage teacher participation as they gain an understanding of the struggles faced during the Jim Crow period and Civil Rights Movement, while providing materials for classroom use.  After participating in the lectures, to emphasize the power of direct modeling by classroom teachers as the key to high-impact professional learning, teachers will work with their peers to create lessons based on brain-based, differentiated instruction.   Teachers will leave with a portfolio of ready-to-use materials and ideas, including Power Point presentations, video clips, bell ringers, brainstorms, worksheets, vocabulary charts, classification matrices, etc. 

 

The Organization of American Historians promotes excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and encourages wide discussion of historical questions and equitable treatment of all practitioners of history.

Agenda

Lecture Series (Auditorium)

7:30 AM     - Registration

8:00            - Introduction

8:15            - Keynote Speaker – Professor Jonathan Holloway –

“Living Under Jim Crow”

9:15            - Q & A

9:30            - Break

9:45            - Continue with Keynote Speaker – “The Civil Rights Movement”

10:45                   - Q & A

11:00                   - Student Research Paper Q & A

Lecture Series ends at 11:30 AM

11:30-12:30                  Lunch (On Your Own)

Professional Development Workshop (Library)

12:45         - Teachers work to share lesson materials and create activities for use in a lesson plan

- Keynote speaker available for assistance throughout workshop

- Teachers use available technologies to compile the resources for their lesson plans

3:00            - Groups present a copy of materials created so that a digital copy may be created and shared post-workshop.

3:15            - Vote on Next Year’s topic choices (3)

Parting Gifts - copies of lessons and materials for all!!!

3:30            - The End…

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