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Posted by: Danna Bell
What's one thing that stands out about your Institute experience? The quality of the professional development. In fifteen years in public education, I have sat through a lot of professional development. I left the institute with activities and ideas I could implement from day one.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
I wanted to spend a week at the Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute learning why and how to incorporate primary sources into my biology classroom instruction. I attended the Institute last summer and my high expectations were surpassed! Spending a week learning about the use of primary sources with teachers of all grades from around our nation was invigorating, academically stimulating, and quite fun!
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
Many people are familiar with the "Ain't I a Woman" speech given by Sojourner Truth, but fewer know the story behind the speech--or the different accounts of the speech and its delivery.
Posted in: African American History, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Fewer know about another way that African Americans could access the news of the day in the 1940s and 1950s; the All-American News, newsreels similar to the Movietone newsreels that were shown before feature films, were produced for African American audiences.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present)