Minneapolis – Learning from Place: Somali Cedar Riverside
SOLD OUT. Explore Cedar Riverside, the heart of the East African community in Minneapolis and home to one of the largest Somali populations in the United States.
SOLD OUT. Explore Cedar Riverside, the heart of the East African community in Minneapolis and home to one of the largest Somali populations in the United States.
SOLD OUT. Explore Little Africa Plaza and hear from community leaders and culture bearers about the vision behind the new development and the role of African entrepreneurs in shaping the cultural corridor.
Explore disciplinary literacy as the core goal of social studies instruction. Participants will deepen their understanding of what it means for students to think, read, write, and reason like historians, geographers, economists, and political scientists.
Experience Duluth/Misaabekong through Ojibwe/Anishinaabe perspectives, exploring the stories, histories, and relationships to place that have shaped the city and continue to resonate today.
Join fellow educators for a special screening of The Making of America, followed by an opportunity to share ideas about how it could be used in K–12 classrooms and professional development.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching this era.
Learn how to evaluate summative tasks for true rigor and disciplinary alignment. Participants will analyze whether tasks genuinely require students to engage in disciplinary reasoning, use evidence from sources, and demonstrate authentic understanding.
Join the Minnesota Humanities Center for a free, daylong professional learning workshop exploring We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, the Center for Civic Education’s nationally recognized civic education program.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching this era.
Engage in structured problem-solving around challenges districts are facing with inquiry-based, disciplinary instruction. Participants will surface patterns of difficulty in task design, source identification and use, formative assessment, and classroom implementation, and collaborate on practical strategies to address them.
Investigate the trade routes and networks of cultural exchange that connected Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, shaping societies through the movement of people, goods, ideas, and technologies.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching this […]
