"Freedom 'Riters":
NCHE presentation (2019)

Thank you for attending my NCHE (National Council for History Education) Conference presentation on March 15th, 2019. Below is an embedded version of my slide deck. You can view it full-screen by clicking in the lower right-hand corner of the presentation window.

If you would like access to the shared folder of lesson materials, please click here. Although the permission has been set to "view only", you should be able to download anything in the folder or make a copy of an existing document.


"Don't Be A Sheep":
NCSS Presentation (2017)

Thank you for attending my NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Conference presentation on November 18th, 2017. Below is an embedded version of my slide deck. You can view it full-screen by clicking in the lower right-hand corner of the presentation window.

If you would like to access the Google Doc of media literacy principles and the bonus material using Schoolhouse Rock, please click here.

"Making the Mundane Beautiful": professional development presentation

Thanks to everyone who attended our session. I will upload the entire slidedeck as well as links to the apps and websites mentioned.

Please make sure you contribute a photo to our "Making the Mundane Beautiful" #atwarwiththeobvious social slideshow HERE.

For now, here is the original slidedeck as presented to my American Studies students:



If you'd like to learn more about the photographic artists featured in the presentation, here are links to Todd Hido and William Eggleston via ASX: American Suburb X (CAUTION: may be classified NSFW).

"From the Old to the New Jim Crow": NCSS presentation (2015)

Thank you for attending our session today at the NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Conference in New Orleans. Please feel free to contact either of us:

Below is an unabridged version of our presentation that you can use in the classroom. It includes strategies for talking to students about race, as well as a full array of statistics on mass incarceration.



For classroom materials and embedded links to multimedia, please click on the image below:


The Justice Project Summit

Dan Lawler and I participated in a presentation/panel discussion called, "Inclusive Schools and Education Equity" in which the following questions were posed:

  1. What does it mean to be a welcoming school district within the constraints of segregated housing patterns? 
  2. What can suburban residents do to effect change in a metropolitan system that sanctions separate and unequal educational opportunities? 
  3. Does diversity in schools create a net gain for all?
GUEST PANELISTS:
  • Dan Lawler and Spiro Bolos, New Trier's Metropolitan Community Project
  • Steve Bogira, The Chicago Reader
  • Kourtney Cockrell, Student Enrichment Services at Northwestern University

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