These Teacher Workshops delve into two different approaches to teaching history, with a common purpose…to meaningfully engage educators in learning and empower them with tools they can use in their classrooms. We will share resources and innovative approaches to teaching Civil Rights history inclusively. Workshops will offer methods and resources for helping students see the relevance of history, as it relates to the current moment and realize how they can be catalysts for positive social change in their own ways.
We will host sessions on reframing the Civil Rights Movement and Black History through different and more inclusive lenses. We will host guest scholars presenting ways to teach the movement through oral histories and broader perspectives.
Teachers should take methods, resources, and ideas from our workshops to enhance their own classroom pedagogy. With all museum-led Teacher Workshops, we explore effective resources and innovative ways to help students understand the relevance of civil rights history and to inspire students to become catalysts for positive social change.
Participating teachers from Memphis Shelby County Schools (MSCS) who attend the full workshop(s) will receive professional development hours in PLZ for completed workshops.
Registration is required and on a first-come basis. Workshops are eligible for hours toward professional development for the current academic year! Questions? Contact education@civilrightsmuseum.org.
upcoming WORKSHOPS
Discover how collaborative efforts between school and museum educators can create meaningful and impactful learning experiences that encourage students toward civic engagement. For over five years, Dr. Melissa Collins and Dory Lerner have developed programming using virtual and in-person field trips, interactive storytimes, object-centered and place-based learning and craftivism activities. Learn how second graders in Memphis connect throughout each school year with fifth Graders in suburban New Jersey. This model for programming between multiple schools and local institutions of informal learning could be used with any grade levels and with schools around the world. The students in both classes share many of their learning experiences, ensuring that students in multiple locations and grade levels get the benefit of learning about civil rights history. They explore how the past connects to our world today and how each of us can be a catalyst for positive change to ensure a more just future.
The first 10 teachers to register and attend in-person will receive an autographed copy of Dr. Collins’ new book, Your Leadership Journey: A Blueprint to Growth and Success! Credits in PLZ will be provided to MSCS Teachers who attend virtually or in-person.
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The National Civil Rights Museum will continue its 2024-2025 Teacher Workshop series with this session on a newly released book which connects past to present in ways that empower and engage. Join us virtually, as we explore, From Rights to Lives, edited by Dr. Françoise Hamlin (Brown University) and Dr. Charles McKinney, (Rhodes College). We will learn about the book’s development process, why it was necessary for the book to be created, obstacles that were overcome, and how the book can be an impactful resource for K-12 teachers. We will highlight a few of the book’s most relevant chapters for teaching in the K-12 classrooms and encouraging young people today to be agents for more just and equitable futures.
Background on the text, From Rights to Lives:
The generally understood ideas of the Civil Rights Movement of 1950's-60's and the newer #BlackLivesMatter Movement have similar qualities. They both represent dynamic, complex moments of possibility and progress. They also share mass-based movement activities, policy/legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, and targeted media campaigns. Innovation, growth, and dissension—core aspects of movement work—mark them both. These moments also engender aggressive, repressive, multi-level responses to these assertions of Black Humanity.
From Rights to Lives critically engages the dynamic relationship between these two moments of liberatory possibility on the Black Freedom Struggle timeline. NCRM Education Manager Dory Lerner will moderate the conversation between Dr. Hamlin and Dr. McKinney, as they share with us some of the essential ideas of this powerful book. There will be opportunities for Q & A with these two featured authors, scholars, and professors of Africana Studies.
MSCS teachers will receive credits in PLZ. Free autographed copies of the book will go to the first five educators to register and join the workshop. This workshop is FREE and is part of the National Civil Rights Museum’s effort to inspire educators and schools to teach courageously and to create more inclusive learning environments.
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Past WORKSHOPS
July 27, 2024
April 27, 2024
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March 23, 2024
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March 2, 2024
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February 17, 2024
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December 2, 2023
November 4, 2023
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