Wayne County Teaching Diverse History Summit

Wayne County Teaching Diverse History Summit

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7:30am EDT

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8:30am EDT

Opening Remarks Auditorium Community Resource Fair Lobby

9:00am EDT

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries Auditorium

10:15am EDT

Youth Panel Auditorium

11:15am EDT

Freedom-Seeking and Resistance in Detroit: Designing Place-Based Case Studies for Inquiry-Based Learning Room 5Darin Stockdill Lifting Untold Stories from our Landscape Using Place-Based, EcoJustice Education Room 3Lisa Voelker • Nigora Erkaeva • Anna Blazer Migration and Religion: Two Tales from Detroit Room 2Carole Hawke-Diop Teaching Arab History with Accuracy and Empathy Room 4Rania Hammoud Teaching Social Studies in Michigan: It's a Mission AuditoriumScott Koenig True Inclusion is Revolutionary: Combating Ableism Room 6Ruth Le Zines and Democracy Room 1Angelica Esquivel

1:45pm EDT

A Community's Effort to Document its Rich and Colorful History Room 2VOCES Black Bottom Archives Room 5Marcia Black Facing Histories (Part 1) featuring Dr. Hasan Kwame Jefferies AuditoriumHasan Kwame Jefferies Native American Authors: Incoporating Native American Texts in Grades 6-12 Room 3Wendy Gilliard • Sydnie Dumas • Kendall Moser Teaching Difficult Histories: Inquiry and Museum-Based Learning at The Zekelman Holocaust Center Room 4Renea Di Bella The Backbeat Rewritten: Detroit’s Musical History and the Black American Musical Lineage Room 1Andy Jarema The Scent of Fear: Impacts of the Lavender Scare on the Federal Workforce Room 6Lauren Jasinski

3:00pm EDT

Connecting National History and DBQs to Local Stories Through Place-Based Inquiry Room 2John Farris Everything You Needed to Know about Asian Pacific Americans Room 4Richard Mui Facing Histories (Part 2) featuring Dr. Hasan Kwame Jefferies AuditoriumHasan Kwame Jefferies Leveraging Public Media Resources to Support Digital Storytelling Room 1Matt Hamilton Mapping Equity, Amplifying Voices: Exploring Redlining in Detroit Room 6Jasmine Easterly • Gabrielle Likavec Our Language Is in the Stars and in Our Bones Room 3Stacie Sheldon Chitwaadewegekwe We Are Our Own Heroes: How the Fight For Freedom Became the Foundation for Detroit's African American Community Room 5Jamon Jordan

7:30am EDT

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8:30am EDT

Community Gathering Featuring Jessica Care Moore Auditorium Community Resource Fair Lobby

10:00am EDT

Art of the Ages: The Evolution of the Portrayal of Black Americans in the Media (1910-1990) Room 5Alima Trapp • Ali Wheeler Breakout Session Featuring Jessica Care Moore Auditorium Bringing History to Life: Project-Based Learning Experiences for Teaching a People’s History of Wayne County Room 1Jill Jenkins • Jeremy Hein Food for Thought: How Our Diets Reflect Migration, Conquest, & Resilience Room 3Amy Perkins History Day®: Collaborating with Local Museums to Lift Hidden Histories Room 2David Hales • Joe Kochut Mapping US Elections: Who Votes, and How Does it Matter? Room 4Kristi Hanby Teaching Disability History: The Journey From Disability Rights to Disability Justice Room 6Seena M. Skelton

11:00am EDT

12:30pm EDT

Place-based Workshops and Excursions TBA

Wayne County Teaching Diverse History Summit

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