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In this episode, join Neil Wrona, middle school special educator in Howard County, MD.   He has spent most of his 8 years teaching in alternative Special Ed schools helping students whose emotional disabilities have caused them to fall behind academically.  I have never been a special education teacher and talking to Neil about working with students with learning differences gave me a glimpse into his experience.  Neil shares strategies for helping his students learn that can be used in ALL classrooms, and he gives a special nod to support teachers.

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In this episode, I interview New York Historical Society Women and the American Story Ambassador, Lee Sharmat, about women soldiers in the Civil War.  In this intervew, we get to chat not only about women as fierce fighters in America's bloodiest conflict, but also about gender and sexuality and what those meant for these women and in the time period.  Lee highlights the bravery of these soldiers, but also reminds us that there is still SO much to uncover about the people about the past.  Just because we don't know, doesn't mean it's not so!

Recommended Books:

• The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez
• An Uncommon Soldier: The Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman
• They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
• The Fighting Infantryman: The Story of Albert D. J. Cashier, Transgender Civil War Soldier

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In this episode, I interview Sarah January, writer, content creator, author for History Collection, and teacher, about untold stories in history.  Join us as we chat about some of her favorites, James Armistead Lafayette,  Sylvia Mendez, Fred Korematsu, and Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte.  Never heard these names?  Great!  Sarah will tell you all about them and we'll discuss how to use their stories in your classroom.  Heard of everyone?  Also awesome!  You'll love this episode.

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Amanda Garcia, proud Tejana, chats with me in this episode about her experience and her family's experience as Mexican Americans in Texas.  This leads to an enlightening, reflective conversation about how we as teachers help to shape students' identities through our lessons and our interactions with them.  Amanda gives us ideas about how to be practitioners who honor our students' cultures, customs, and languages and leaves us with questions to reflect upon our practices, as our intention to help our diverse body of students isn't as influential as the impact of our actions and words.

Amanda's Reflection Questions:

• Were my biases in check for that lesson?
• Were my students centered and were my students' voices amplified?
• Am I asking students for feedback regularly?
• Is my classroom an echo chamber or a comfortable space?

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Women's history, the history of journalism, civic action, the history of treating mental illness, and much more: this is just some of what Nellie Bly's story- both her life story and her epic investigative journalism- can bring to your classroom.  Join us this week as Meredith Forte, an expert educator in the Bloomfield, New Jersey school district, discusses Nellie Bly's life, work, and ways to bring Bly into your classroom in meaningful ways for your students.

Read 10 Days in a Mad-House: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html

Want some great lessons and resources about Bly and other related topics and women?  Check out Women and the American Story (WAMS) through the New York Historical Society. https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/modern-womanhood/nellie-bly/

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In this episode, Karalee Wong Nakatsuka and Laurel Aguilar-Kirchhoff about their upcoming publication, "Bring History and Civics to Life: Lessons and Strategies to Cultivate Informed, Empathetic Citizens."  Their book is an invitation to history, civics, and social studies teachers (and all teachers, actually!) to bring empathy, educational technology, and community into the classroom.  Karalee & Laurel offer teachers, from beginners to the most advanced, ways to make their classrooms places where representation matters and educational technology can be used to help drive learning and social-emotional learning skills.  You really don't want to miss this episode or miss out on reading their fantastic book.

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"Bring History and Civics to Life: Lessons and Strategies to Cultivate Informed, Empathetic Citizens" ISBN: 9781564849359

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This episode continues the conversation of Critical Race Theory and about the manufactured crisis in history classrooms.  Learn more about what CRT actually is, that it is not being taught in history classrooms, and how legislation against supposed CRT  is hurting teachers and students because it eroding trust and relationships between teachers and parents, it is not allowing teachers to fully represent their student populations in the curriculum, and it is keeping actual critical conversations that involve race and identity out of the classroom even though it is impossible to divorce race and history in America.  Thank you to
Kelsea Savarimuthu, Florida teacher, for sharing her experience and expertise.

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You are in for a treat!  In this episode, Dan Lewer of History 4 Humans is here to talk to us all about the importance of storytelling in history classes.  Build empathy, include more student experiences, and draw in learners with some of the storytelling techniques that Dan suggests.

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As a graduate student I finally realized the importance of historiography, or the study of historical writing.  I kind of like to call it "the history of history."  Brandon Eldridge recently published a paper about the changing historiography of the Civil War.  In this episode he and I talk bout how important it is for teachers to know the ever-changing landscape of historical study.  Knowing and understanding the different interpretations of history over time and across ideologies helps us as teachers better understand our field.  Furthermore, studying historiography helps students realize that history isn't static and builds critical thinking skills.

Read Brandon Eldridge's paper here: https://openspaces.unk.edu/grad-review/vol1/iss1/7/
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In this episode, Nathan McAllister, 2010 Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year talks about "Why not"?  When a student has an idea, help them be brilliant even if it wasn't in the plan.  This philosophy led to Nate's students working to successfully enact legislation, to building on the football field, to discovering that Seman school district was named after an active and proud KKK member and fighting to change the name of the school and district.  

AP News coverage of Seman High Name Change

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