RESOURCES FOR TEACHING BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Black History Month Lessons & Resources (collected by the NEA) Learning For Justice’s Do’s and Don’ts of Teaching Black History The Poet’s Voice: Langston Hughes and You Students in grades 6-8 investigate “voice” in Hughes’s poetry, develop their own distinctive voices in journal entries, and write an original poem or critical essay on an aspect of Hughes’s Read More…

Black History Month 2023

  The Black History Month 2023 theme, “Black Resistance,” explores how “African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms and police killings,” since the nation’s earliest days. The first national Negro History Week was organized by Carter G. Woodson in February 1926 to coincide Read More…

Sync – Free Audiobooks for Teens

SYNC returns April 28, 2022 SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+. Returning Spring 2022, SYNC gives participants two thematically paired audiobooks each week. Titles are all available worldwide and change every Thursday at midnight Eastern Time during the season. Featured titles include: The Black Panther : Tales of Wakanda Four Short Read More…

RESOURCES FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

Webinars: Indigenous Peoples’ History–Cohosted by experts from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, this webinar will delve into the ways American history instruction often fails to acknowledge—and contributes to—the erasure of Indigenous stories and perspectives. Join us and you’ll learn about critical historical events, as well as cultural and societal contributions of Indigenous peoples past and present. You will Read More…

Banned Book Week

What is Banned Books Week? Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types Read More…