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Debra Gottsleben

Zinn Education Project - 0 views

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    "The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn's A People's History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people's choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter."
Debra Gottsleben

The findingDulcinea Blog: 21st Century Activities for Women's History Month - 0 views

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    Very good post with lots of ideas for celebrating women's history month
scott klepesch

Inside My Global Classroom | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

  • When Hiram Cuevas from Virginia wanted his students to understand the Black Saturday bushfire tragedy that had befallen Victoria in 2009, our students arrived at school before the start of the school day, and his stayed late, so that we could establish a meaningful discussion around the events. Our students and staff were so touched that kids and teachers in a school as far away as Virginia were interested and concerned about events in our part of the world.
  • Probably most important: establish good connections with the teachers you will be working with. Remain in constant contact, double check your time zones (including quirks like daylight savings time policies in each community), and test your connections before starting time.
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    "Over the last two years, students from my school have been fundraising to support Daraja Academy, a school in Kenya that is providing free education for impoverished girls who would be lost to education without such support. I found out about Daraja through Jabiz Raisdana, a teacher I met at a conference in Shanghai and who is in my Twitter network. Jabiz put me onto Mark Lukach, a teacher from San Francisco who is an advocate for Daraja, and acts as a bridge helping people understand the cause. Mark and I remain in contact through email and Twitter, and he has Skyped into our school on several occasions, enthusiastically conveying to our students the need to support girl education in places like Africa where women are so vital to the functioning of society."
scott klepesch

Unfit for Democracy? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • I don’t think so. Moreover, this line of thinking seems to me insulting to the unfree world. In Egypt and Bahrain in recent weeks, I’ve been humbled by the lionhearted men and women I’ve seen defying tear gas or bullets for freedom that we take for granted. How can we say that these people are unready for a democracy that they are prepared to die for?
  • The common thread of this year’s democracy movement from Tunisia to Iran, from Yemen to Libya, has been undaunted courage.
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    Scott I totally agree with you. What has been going on in these countries is nothing short of inspiring.
Debra Gottsleben

Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry: Oklahoma Women and the Dust Bowl - OSU Library Speci... - 0 views

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    great resources on the dust bowl including many primary sources
Debra Gottsleben

Looking Back At The WAVES: - 0 views

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    Website created by local author and former MSD teacher, Nancy Castellano. A first hand account of what it was like to be in the WAVES.
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    This was created by a former MSD teacher. There is a companion book to this site which we have in our MHS library. Nancy would also speak to classes.
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