In partnership, the National Council for History Education and the National Council for the Social Studies present “In Pursuit of Equity.” The purpose of this Equity Summit is to engage multiple communities in deliberative discussions about opportunities for and challenges to equity in the United States’ past, present, and future. Drawing upon the complex history of race, ethnicity, enslavement, poverty, and immigration in the American experience, sessions will emphasize opportunities, activism, and student empowerment. This Equity Summit fosters actively engaged and informed…

Re-imagine social studies to be inclusive of underrepresented groups who are long-overdue to become normalized in "standard" social studies courses. By exploring the racial perceptions of current educators and how they experienced learning about race, we can investigate how racial optics may or may not influence our own curricular choices. Speaker: Julie Muhlenfeld-Johnson, New Market, Alabama

Join us for an interactive session to inspire and equip you to teach the history of public school integration in America, and the lasting effects of integration efforts on students, schools, and communities. In this webinar, we'll show you how to use resources from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE films, The Busing Battleground and The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi’s Schools along with support materials created by GBH Education. Teachers and their students can view film clips and use the support materials to answer essential questions such as "How were the combined efforts of everyday citizens,…