Methods of incorporating cspan programs in their teaching. They join cspans educational Relations Team in washington, d. C. For four weeks in july to develop new teaching materials. They also have lead cspan some educators conference. One of our three, 2019 teacher fellows is middle School TeacherZachariah Lowe of the sumter South Carolina. Host Zachariah Lowe is one of our cspan teacher fellows. Hes a teacher at middle school in sumter South Carolina. Tell us a little bit about your students. Guest my students come from a very world, very impoverished backgrounds. We are very on the edge of the Sumter County in South Carolina. Its kind of shape like oklahoma because our school come from the panhandle so we are completely away from the nearest city and we have about 400 kids grades k through eight so very Small Schools will pick the kids are determined to grow, determined to learn and just great personalities. And desire to try to make their communities a better place. Host your focus in state history, South Carolina state history. What prompted you to apply to be a teacher fellow . Guest i came to cspans educator conference about four years ago. It was my first real big professional Development Experience right after my first year teaching, and its hard for my students to realize what happens in washington because so many of them have not ever left Sumter County. Theres a field trip we took last year when he was a first and most of the kids had ever been to a zoo. That conference kind of planted the seed of using cspans footage and clips to show them whats happening in washington and why its so important. Over the last couple of years ive made it a point to use those primary sources and this fellowship would offer an opportunity for me not only to learn more about the state history resources that sees that offers but also to try and contribute more and build on top of what already exists. Host what are some of the practical thing to take away from this experience in washington in terms of as a teacher . And what you think you learned about policy or politics you that maybe change your opinion on . Guest i didnt realize how much cspan had to offer. I knew about the gavel to gavel coverage on house and senate, but we referenced that conference cup years ago about American History to become the cities tour comic book event things of that nature but as teachers, practitioners we dont have a ton of time to watch this is because and see whats inside. This experience really showed me just how much stuff there is, museum tours, discussion with other people that i did realize existed with cspan. I think there is that adage that theres more that unites us than actually what divides us and to think this experience showed me that come to fruition not just in politics where you are viewing their legislators communicate with each other in a friendly nature, freddie discourse and not so much you see on across the media thinks of that nature but working together to try and solve some of the issues that are in our country. But that also the pride local committees have in their history, in stories in each other that come up to the top when youre watching. Host you told us before the interview you are from youngstown, ohio. South carolina the center point of the original 13 colonies. Certainly the start of the secession crisis in the civil war. Must that they can you quite a bit to get up to speed on South Carolina history. Guest South Carolina history course is basically i guess you would say u. S. History with a couple extra things but its just come in youngstown theres a a ton of good history but South Carolina of course you just mention one of the original 13 colonies, you have a couple at least another 200 years of history there. Just an example, my grandpares came down to visit about two, three weeks ago and their big thing is they like to go visit cemeteries. See who was buried where. I didnt realize at that im living in has a a great site of the guy who shot the canon at the battle of fort sumter to start the civil war. Theyre so much history that i dont even know about, and thk you could say im doing a modern moderate disservice to my students. Theres always something to be discovered and showing my students that maybe they can think of be empowered to try and find their own history. Host if you could take them on a bit longer field trip than to the zoo, if you could bring them here to washington, among the places youve seen or visited while youre in washington, where would you take them to teach them a lesson . Guest i think i would have to bring them here for a month and go everywhere. Host im giving you a day. Just kidding. Guest i think you haveec to go to the africanAmerican History museum. That directly connects a lot of my students allies. Thats what piques your interest. Its their own heritage. Its about 95 africanamerican so that covers a lot about their history and also some of the challenges are dealing with today in the 21st century, but right here the u. S. Capital is a good place to visit as well, see the actual process in action. Where to find information. How hard a challenge is it to get them to use the resources and not to use less reputablesources of information . My students generally have a good knowledge of what constitutes a reliable source. I think with some of the terminology being thrown around in our country today, they are questioning everything which is good so they are trying to find answers to their questions. What can we use, what cant we use but to dive deeper, if not the same whats reputable and whats not and we find a source on both sides. How can we use that to examine claims but also look at the other side as well. As you leave your fellowship and head back to classes, what sort of classes or things have you picked up from either your teacher fellows or the broader summer conferencehere . What sort of things may you bring back into the class . For me personally, a renewed passion to teach about government and philosophy, getting here in a placebased history, being in the middle of it all has been a rejuvenating experience but for my students, i think the idea of personal stories. Through all these professional developments ive done, its all about what makes people tick . What makes people make their decisions and this experience looking through all 50 states , washington dc, talking with people in the town of washington dc is really honed my focus in telling individual stories and how they havent on everyone around. Recovered American History tv and the local city store, hold seven in the South Carolina quite a bit. Greenville, charleston and columbia. As youre in washington what interesting sites or things have you had a chance to do, not just the size of which, what would you point out . We got to go to the south lawn of the white house and whats the president gave a press conference. It was announcing the resignation of secretary of labor alex acosta. I got to watch the president depart on marineone. Its my fourth summer in the heat for some sort of fellowship so i got a chance to go find those things off the beaten path. This is my first time going to the national zoo but kind of made me going back and spend time in places ive already been. The africanAmerican History museum, got to spend a couple of hours. It wasnt too crowded. To go to the apollo 11 on Washington Monument which was cool. So it just kind of, getting into more detail, focus on what washington dc has to offer. When students from the class and there are big political things happening, president from says something or congress does something, what is the number one thing you hear from your students in terms of current political events . They could regurgitate in a way whatever their parents say, whatever you point that they carry from home into the classroom. At pretty much their focus so regardless of issue, could be gay marriage, abortion, the military, its whatever their parents have been and thats why we try and instill the capacity and ability for the kids to read through the sources themselves and make their own determinations. In fact, i had some of my student this last year take one of the high side with holes to find out which Political Party they were aligned with. There wereseveral that said , a democrat and take the quiz and its completely conservative and on the flipside so i think teaching them how to understand what the Political Parties represent, their platforms and what each individual candidate brings to the table and counteracting the hearsay and things they hear in the news or fromtheir family members. 2019 teacher of the year from cspan, glad youre here. Glad to be here. For more information about cspans Education Resources and our teacher fellowship program, go to cspan. Org classroom. Tonight, on the communicators. People come up to me and they say i cant get you, i cant follow you they make it impossible. These are people good at what they do. Make it absolutely impossible. We will talk about the recent president ial social media summit where president from his social Media Censorship by the tech firms and what should be done about it with robert louis from the Heritage Foundation and Patrick Hedger from the competitive enterprise institute. I think as consumers we can demand that as users of facebook and twitter and google that if were going to be on that platform we expect that they will respect our ability to communicate. If we dont like it, we can. To me it seems hard to let me an accusation that big and negative in any way shape or form conservative when somebody like Dennis Prager is getting 1 billion views on the products and videos putting out. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 pm eastern on cspan2. Sunday at 9 am Eastern Washington journal of American History tv live vessel call in program looking back at woodstock, the 1969 cultural and musical phenomenon. Historian david barber,author of the book the age of great dreams, america in the 1960s joins us to take your call. Matter who takes the storm and wanted to have the effect they did in the 60s and early 70s is something were still wrestling with bestsellers to understand. Technology of drugs. We got court right here and something left on long and hard about this is inherited in understanding not just the 60s but on the production of history, what drums we use at a given period and placed on an incredible ability to change the direction of a given society. Calling to talk to david farber about the social movements of the 60s leading up woodstock and its legacy. Woodstock, 50 years sunday at 9 am eastern on washington journal, also live in American History tv on cspan3. Watch deeper live coverage of the National Book festival , saturday, august 31 starting at 10 am eastern. Our coverage includes author interviews with Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and her book my own word. David troyer, his book is a heartbeat of wounded knee. Sharon robinson talk about her book child of the dream. Henson, author of the british arecoming and Thomas Malone , founding director of the mit answer for collective intelligence discusses his book supervised. The National Book festival, live saturday, august 31 at 10 am eastern on book tv on cspan2. Next, andy parker, father of slain roanoke virginia tv reporter Allison Parker on his concerns over immunity protections or Internet Service providers. After his daughters death was posted and reposted online, Mister Parker has spoken publicly about gun violence and work on lesl