ESC Region 17 Social Studies
Volume 5 Issue #5
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
JANUARY HAPPENINGS-Check Out the New Events Happening Soon at Region 17 and Virtual!
This Week!!!!
Tuesday-Explore Digital Education Resources At the LBJ Library
Wednesday-The Presidents: The Lives Behind the Legends-Six Part Series
January 12: John A. Farrell speaking on Richard Nixon
January 19: Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf speaking on Thomas Jefferson
January 26: Amity Shlaes speaking on Calvin Coolidge
February 2: Fredrik Logevall speaking on JFK
February 9: Christopher Leahy speaking on John Tyler
February 16: Alexis Coe speaking on George WashingtonThursday-8th Grade U Topics: Reform and Sectionalism
Topics: Age of Reform and Sectionalism
Rest of January!!!!
Medal of Honor Webinar
Free Humanities Texas Professional Development Webinars
Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
Tuesdays • January 25 and February 1, 2021 • 5:15–6:30 pm CT
These webinars will offer a nuanced understanding of the civil rights movement, incorporating significant primary documents from a number of the movement’s major figures. The first webinar will consider the traditional historical understanding of the movement, providing a broad overview before complicating the story. The second webinar will focus on Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet,” and Fannie Lou Hamer’s testimony before the 1964 Democratic National Convention’s credentials committee, considering each document's presentation of American democracy. Both webinars will highlight the most important takeaways for middle and high school students.
Teaching U.S. History with Primary Documents, 1963–2000
Wednesdays • January 26–March 2, 2022 • 5:00–6:15 pm CT
Each weekly webinar will cover a document that is crucial to understanding U.S. history in the final decades of the twentieth century: the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Pentagon Papers, the House Articles of Impeachment for Nixon, a document relating to the 1977 National Women’s Conference, and Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech. Each webinar will focus on one of these documents, addressing both its context (how it came to be and its impact/significance) and its actual contents (the most important things for teachers to know and share with their students).
Teaching the Transformation of Texas, 1930–1945
Mondays • January 31–February 28, 2022 • 5:00–6:30 pm CT
This webinar series will offer teachers insight into the profound changes that remade Texas during the 1930s–1940s as the Great Depression, New Deal, and World War II collectively transformed it from a region of rural farmers into a modern, urbanized state. Team-taught by a historian and two master teachers, the sessions will provide a collection of curriculum materials geared toward bringing innovative perspectives into the classroom.
TxDot Roadside Chat Webinar Series
Kick off 2022 by stepping into the past! This webinar will explore the first century of the Texas Highway Department, today known as TxDOT. Join the authors of Miles and Miles of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas Highway Department and TxDOT's photo librarian as they share the stories and images they discovered while researching the book. With thousands of miles of Texas roadways built over the decades, there's sure to be something interesting learned along the way! Curious about a highway's history? You'll also learn what research resources are available at TxDOT.
FEBRUARY HAPPENINGS
MARCH HAPPENINGS
Law-Related Education is Making the Trip Back to West Texas this Spring!
Ready, Set, Go-Reaching for the STAARS (8th Grade) STAAR Review LRE-Style
March 2, 2021-This 6 hour institute for 8th Grade teachers includes a session designed to address TEKS for teaching the Civil War and a session on resources and strategies to teach and review for the state assessment.Ready, Set, Go-Reaching for the STAARS (U.S. History) EOC Review LRE-Style
March 3, 2021-This 6 hour institute for U.S. History teachers includes a session designed to address TEKS for teaching the 1970’s to the present and a session on resources and strategies to teach and review for the state assessment.
APRIL HAPPENINGS
Social Studies TEKS Review Process Update from TEA
Updated Information from TSSSA/TCSS Meetings
New Preliminary Blueprints for 8th/EOC
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Sabrina S. Blankenship
Email: sblankenship@esc17.net
Website: https://www.esc17.net/page/ci.socialstudies
Location: 1111 West Loop 289, Lubbock, TX, USA
Phone: 806-281-5884