• 2/19/18: Modern Social Movements in American (High School) PD (register)
• 2/21/18: TAH Webinar - FDR's Commonwealth Club Address
• 3/1/18: Russian Liberalism; Dr. Thomas Porter (register)
• 3/1/18: The Lowell Experience Applications due
• 3/3/18: TAH Webinar - Bloody Sunday in Selma
• 3/8/18: Pedagogical Approach to the Holocaust (register)
• 3/20/18: Native American, Spanish, and African Interactions in the New World (& NC), Dr. Omar Ali (register)
• 3/20/18 - 3/21/18: World View, Building Better Bridges: Equity in the Classroom Seminar (info below)
• 3/21/18 - 3/22/18: World View, Far East Asia Seminar (info below)

• Date: 3/1/18
  
• Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm
  
• Location: Washington Street Annex, 501 W. Washington Street, GSO. Rm. 223

Dr. Thomas Porter, Professor of Russian and Modern European History at N.C. A&T University, will present a talk on his 2017 book Prince George E. L’vov: The Zemstvo, Civil Society, and Liberalism in Late Imperial Russia at the Washington Street Annex. This book is a political biography of L’vov as well as a history of the zemstvo, the local government bodies established in Russia in the late nineteenth century. Dr. Porter will discuss the book as well as Russian liberalism and its relevance to the modern world. GCS teachers who register and attend will receive 0.2 CEUs. We hope you can join us for this professional development opportunity! Registere here!

• Date: 3/20/18
• Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm
• Location: Washington Street Annex, 501 W. Washington Street, GSO. Rm. 223

Dr. Omar Ali will present a talk on interactions between Native, African, and Spanish peoples in the late 16th century at Fort San Juan (near the site of modern-day Morganton, NC). Professor Ali is Dean of the Lloyd International Honors College and Professor of Global and Comparative African Diaspora History at UNCG. His research specializes in the African Diaspora throughout the Atlantic World. He has worked with GCS teachers, along with many other local organizations in the past, and has also shared his expertise on this subject and others on CSPAN, CNN, PBS, and through TEDx talks. GCS teachers who register and attend will receive 0.2 CEUs. We hope you can join us for this opportunity. Register here!

• March 20 - 21, 2018
  
• Location: The Friday Conference Center, Chapel Hill

Through plenary talks and small group breakout sessions, K-12 and community college educators at World View’s spring seminar will explore issues of cultural respect and equity, learning what barriers need to be removed and what strategies can be implemented to recognize the potential for all learners. Participants will have the opportunity to consider their backgrounds, how their individual experiences have forged their beliefs and how these beliefs transpire into their everyday world, specifically the classroom or learning environment. Teachers can receive 1.5 CEUs for attending and completing a "study guide." More info, include sessions, here.

• March 21 - 22, 2018
  
• Location: The Friday Conference Center, Chapel Hill
  

East Asia is extraordinarily diverse and complex: culturally, ethnically, geographically, economically. In spite of rapid transitions due to globalization and geopolitical forces, East Asia maintains some of the world’s oldest cultural traditions. East Asia’s complexity, diversity and shifting role in global affairs present numerous opportunities for learning. Through plenary talks and small group sessions, K-12 and community college educators will explore East Asia’s history, culture, diversity, contemporary affairs and changing role in the world. Participants will discover and experience strategies and resources for integrating these issues and topics into the classroom or learning environment. Teachers can receive 1.5 CEUs for attending and completing a "study guide." More info, including break-out sessions, here.

Each newsletter will feature a Social Studies book recommendation from our department or teachers in the district. This week's featured book is The Blood of Emmett Till by Tim Tyson of Duke University. This gritty but highly accessible 2017 book looks at the murder of 14-year old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi in 1955, emphasizing the ways that its cruelty and brutality made it a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement. The book features extensive archival research, but is most significant for Tyson's revelatory and exclusive interviews with participants in the event, particularly Caroline Bryant Donham, whose accusations that Till assaulted her led to his lynching. Tyson's books Radio Free Dixie (1999) and Blood Done Sign My Name (2004) as well as his work on the Wilmington Riots of 1898 have established him as a leading historian of Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement. With The Blood of Emmett Till, he has produced another moving and important addition to our understanding of this turbulent period.

Got a book recommendation yourself? Send it our way!

We are currently compiling primary source resource packets for grade levels from elementary to high school. We know that many of you use primary sources in your teaching, and would love to include what you're using in our packet. This is a way to make sure that what we're doing is useful to everyone. If you're interested in contributing to this ongoing project, please send an email with the text of the document (or document excerpt) attached, along with a brief description of how you use it, to stroudj2@gcsnc.com. Non-print resources (paintings, photographs, music, etc) are not only welcome, but encouraged!