February 6, 2012
Darkness into Life: Alabama Holocaust Survivors Through Photography and Art
Birmingham Southern College
- “Darkness into Life” – Durbin Gallery
- “Courage to Remember” – Rush Learning Center / N.E. Miles Library
- “Children of the Holocaust” – Rush Learning Center / N.E. Miles Library
Lecture by the Artists
- Thursday, February 9, 11:00 am, Norton Theater
Dr. Jeffrey Veidlinger, Indiana University
- Monday, February 20, 7 pm, Munger Auditorium
“The Shoah in a Soviet Shtetl”
- Tuesday, February 21, 11 am, Norton Theater
“Eastern European Jewish Life”
Max Steinmetz, Holocaust Survivor
- Thursday, February 23, 11 am, Norton Theater
Jennifer Lindsay, Faulkner State Community College
- Thursday, March 8, 11 am, Norton Theater
“Bystanders from Birth: Genocide, Social Justice, and the Process that Transforms Good Citizens into Bad Neighbors”
February 22, 2012
It’s not too late to register for I Ain’t No Three Fifths of a Person, our next program produced in partnership with George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate, Museum & Gardens. This free program will air on February 22, 2012 from 1-2 p.m. (ET), for students in grades 9-12. We will broadcast this program via satellite and online video streaming.
How did the ideas and vision which formed a new nation impact the enslaved community? I Ain’t No Three Fifths of a Person: Slavery and the Constitution explores the reactions and perspectives of key members of the Mount Vernon and Monticello enslaved communities to major events during the founding of our nation.
Through dramatic reenactments students will hear the views of Billy Lee, who served as General Washington’s manservant throughout the Revolutionary War; understand the concerns of Caroline Branham and Oney Judge, who worked under Mrs. Washington’s supervision in the mansion; meet Christopher Sheels, who served as General Washington’s manservant after Billy Lee; and discover the ideas of Bob Hemmings, manservant to Thomas Jefferson.
To provide a broader historical context, the human point of view presented by the enslaved men and women in the dramatic scenes is interwoven with interviews from prominent historians and comments from the actor/historical interpreters themselves.
Register for the program.
February 25, 2012
The Smithsonian Museum traveling exhibition “Journey Stories” will open at the Arab Historic Village on Saturday, February 25, 2012! The exhibit is free and open to the public Tuesdays – Fridays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through April 4, 2012. For more information about the exhibit or about specific events scheduled throughout the exhibit’s stay in Arab, visit www.arab-chamber.org
We encourage you and your fellow teachers to check out Arab Chamber‘s website and also the Arab Historic Village webpage at www.arabcity.org/historiccomplex.htm To plan a field trip, please call Juanita Edmondson at 256-586-6397 or 256-550-0290. It will take 2-3 hours to tour the Exhibit and the Village. Students may bring a picnic lunch.
Dear Fellow Teachers of Psychology,
Christie Morman, psychology teacher at Homewood High School, and I are interested in creating a collaborative network of area psychology teachers to share best practices. Seems psychology workshops are few and far between.
Our idea is to invite psychology teachers from Central and North Alabama to come together to share effective, engaging, and creative activities used in the teaching of high school psychology.
PsychShare 2012 will be held at Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham on Saturday February 25th from 8:40 a.m.-12:00 noon. There is no cost for the workshop. Breakfast and refreshments will be provided as well as three hours of professional development.
To register, log on to STIPD. The title and number are PyschShare Workshop – MB1112504. Once you attend your hours will be verified in STIPD. If you would please RSVP to FERGUSONM@mtnbrook.k12.al.us, as well, so that we can keep running total of participants. A few days out from the workshop we will send you the number of participants expected to attend so that you can bring the correct number copies of the activities you plan to share.
We encourage you to join us in what we expect will be an exciting morning of sharing, with our psychology colleagues, some of our best teaching activities. Hopefully we will all leave with many new lessons and hands-on activities that we can immediately use in our classrooms. Once again, Christie and I are very excited about this workshop and would like to see this become a yearly event.
Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions regarding PsychShare 2012.
All the best,
Matt Ferguson
Psychology Teacher
Critical Film Teacher
Mountain Brook High School
3650 Bethune Drive
Mountain Brook Alabama 35223
205-427-2425
March 13, 2012
Interactive, standards-based instruction in economic reasoning is the hallmark of FTE-style economic education. In Economics Online for Teachers, FTE has adapted interactive methodology to the virtual classroom. Using asynchronous class interaction and participation, practice problems with one-on-one feedback from nationally acclaimed instructors, the national voluntary content standards in economics, and the resources of the Internet, EOFT promises to increase your confidence in teaching the fundamentals and to renew your enthusiasm for introducing students to the power of economic reasoning to explain the world around them.
Visit the Foundation for Teaching Economics website for details.
Deadline to Apply: March 1
2 Semester Hours of Graduate Credit
March 23, 2012
Alabama State History Day – March 23, 2012
AU Montgomery from 8:30-2:00
2012 Theme: Revolution, Reaction and Reform
Registration deadline: March 5, online at www.nhd.org
…A great next step for your history fair winners or best papers and projects in class. Entries need to loosely connect to at least one part of the theme, and follow rules as cited on NHD website. Interested? Check out the amazing resources and information at www.nhd.org, or contact State Director Dr. Karen Riley at kriley@aum.edu, or call an experienced coach/volunteer Cora Connelly at 334-703-3128.
Divisions: Gr. 6-8, 9-12
Entry categories: Paper, website, documentary, exhibit, or performance, all in groups or as individuals.
Top 2 finishers in each division and category may advance to the National contest at the University of Maryland, June 10-14. In 2011 Alabama had its best showing ever at Nationals – what an amazing experience, with thousands of kids cheering for History and celebrating academic excellence. Tens of thousands of dollars in prizes and scholarships are awarded every year. You could be a part of it!
"Gomillion vs Lightfoot - Group Performance National judging"
Parade of States - National History Day
March 30, 2012
See what life was like in Colonial Mobile at this free educational event held at Fort Condé on Friday, March 30, 2012 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Students will see demonstrations including:
- Blacksmithing
- Candle making
- Cooking, and
- Native American arts and crafts.
They will also be able to participate in activities such as:
- Dressing up in colonial clothing
- Churning butter
- Playing colonial games
- Doing laundry outdoors, and more!
Reservations for groups of 10 or more are required for this event and are made on a first come, first served basis. To make a reservation, please contact the Education Department of the History Museum of Mobile at 251-208-7510.
April 17, 2012
11:00 Holocaust Remembrance Program, Old House Chamber
To Follow: Lunch, Archives Room
April 18, 2012
Guest Speaker: Professor Harry Reicher
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Scholar in Residence / Touro Law Center
April 25, 2012
Speakers: Max Herzel and Max Steinmetz, Holocaust Survivors
Excellence in Teaching Awards: The Office of Research on Teaching in the Disciplines
A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism Online Workshop