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Teaching Black History: More Than Oppression
May 6, 2024 - May 8, 2024
The Lost Souls Project Educators Institute is thrilled to announce Professional Development Workshops designed to empower K-12 educators to center Black life and culture as mechanisms for survival and resistance amid the institution of slavery in New Jersey.
Coupled with an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the African American experience in history and Black people’s representation in the K-12 curriculum, these workshops, facilitated by historians, archivists, and teacher educators, will provide practical strategies for analyzing and using primary sources differently. They are designed to enhance the teaching of Black history by emphasizing the humanity of freed and enslaved people during the antebellum period. By equipping educators with these practical tools, we aim to empower educators to incorporate local Black history confidently into their classroom instruction.
All participants have the opportunity to earn professional development credit. For participants who attend all three events, they will receive a certificate of completion, supplemental resources to the Lost Souls curriculum and a tote bag filled with valuable personal and classroom resources.