Welcome. Amity. Cial guest is author of the forgotten man graphic. Biography of the 13th president. She is the author of a new book, the Great Society in history. In it, she shows that planning policy hurts both the nation and the individual. She shares the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation. Will turn the conversation over to gerrit. Thank you. I really appreciate the introductions. Thank you to the audience for tuning in at this time at this very unusual time where we are speaking to you. Hrough these webinars a lot of americans are dealing with these challenges. Really, the challenge that we face right now is a threepart one. We have the Public Health crisis , dealing with the worst pandemic since the 1918 spanish flu. We have a Foreign Policy crisis. And, of course, the topic of discussion today, which is the economic crisis. How we deal with that as a society, the ongoing shutdown that we face in the business closure and these kinds of things that have been seve
They join cspans education washington, m in d. C. For four weeks in july to develop new teaching materials. Lead cspans summer educators conference. Teacher r three 2019 fellows is middle School Teacher of jamestown, rhode island. Fellow Maureen Mcguirl teaches in jamestown, rhode island. Bit about your school and students. School is on an island for one so our students are together pretty much k through 8. They are excited when we have military students which make up of our population because of the Naval War College so its and bring to meet diversity to our classroom. So, basically, the island start out as a farm for sheep and way really until we got another bridge in and thats of our population kind exploded from about 2,500 people to about 500 year round. School five middle through eight in your system, correct . Just seven and eight. Okay. Of the courses that you teach . So, in seventh trade, i teach knicks western civilization focusing on the historical method, how to gather note
Than u. S. Government. In u. S. Government i can talk to them about important sieve, and how to do it. But i think a big challenge to forming citizens who can tackle the problems of today is our u. S. History. It is teaching a very traditional mainstream history that reinforces the current traditions. As they say, they cannot dismantle the masters house. So when you are teaching a traditional white man mythical if you try hard enough youll get ahead type of history. Then you turn around and say, okay, now were going to talk about racial and income inequality. It conflicts. And so i think you really have to teach the roots of todays problems in u. S. History for the students to understand. You need to get down to the root causes. Ill give you an example. This summer i was very shaken by the two deaths of black men by police and the rise of trumpism. And i said i cant go on as if nothing has happen. And i emailed my supervisor and i said, i am just completely compressing the curriculum a
Way we are raised. I am thankful for good parents, good parents in law and a good wife that will help me raise my children and students that way. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is robin. Im the executive director of mikva challenge, d. C. I am really honored to be on the stage with these two amazing educators. I have danced my whole career around the classroom and i have the utmost respect for classroom teachers. They are the real change makers in our society. They get up every day and educate our young people about the world around them and how to make it into what they like to see. I appreciate being a part of this panel. A minute about mikva challenge. We are named after the late judge abner mikva, who just recently passed away. We are founded by a group of people who had worked with judge mikva, a representative from chicago for a number of years on the hill, Circuit Court judge and general counsel to president clinton. When he retired, a group of people decided they wanted to