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K-16 Collaboration Committee
Welcome to the official website of the ASA K-16 Collaboration Committee. This site is home to a community of K-12 and college/university educators who are committed to promoting collaboration and curriculum development in American Studies at all educational levels. The committee facilitates the sharing of innovative, interdisciplinary teaching practices as well as successful models of K-12/university partnerships. The committee also sponsors the “Focus on Teaching” day at the annual American Studies Association meeting. The “Focus on Teaching” day is always held on the Saturday of the conference, and it includes a full day of interactive panels on the practice of teaching American Studies in K-16 classrooms. Educators are also invited to attend the K-16 Saturday Luncheon, which features a keynote speaker from the field of American Studies as well as the presentation of the Karen Halttunen K-12 American Studies Teaching Award.
This year, the American Studies Association Annual Meeting will be held in Washington D.C., November 5-9. See the Community Blog below for the 2009 “Focus on Teaching” day program of events (taking place on Saturday, November 7).
Have a question? Want more information? Contact Adam Bush, asbush@gmail.com or Catherine Michna, michnac@bc.edu
Committee Members:
Chair: Adam Bush, University of Southern California (2011)
Jennifer Betts, Howard School, Georgia (2010)
Leslie Fishbein, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2010)
Jade Lee, National Kaohsiung University, Taiwan (2010)
Catherine Michna, Boston College (2011)
Jane Simonsen, Augustana College (2012)
Councilor: Barbara Tischler, ex officio, Horace Mann School, New York (2011)
Executive Director: John F. Stephens, ex officio, American Studies Association
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K-16 Collaboration Committee Luncheon
We are honored to invite you to this year’s K-16 Committee Luncheon, “Women, Gender, and the Historical Narrative: Still a Challenge,” with keynote speaker Teresa Murphy, George Washington University.
Saturday, November 7, 12:00-1:45
K-16 Focus on Teaching Day, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
8:00 AM to 9:45 AM
Tools for Teachers: American Studies Resources for the K-16 Classroom
In this session, sponsored by the K-16 Collaboration Committee, panelists will discuss the benefits of using widely available online resources to enhance teaching and promote learning in the K-16 classroom. The resources highlighted include EDSITEment and Picturing America, presented by Barbara Ashbrook, assistant director of the Division of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Toolbox Library, presented by Richard Schramm, vice president for education programs, the National Humanities Center; and the online version of the Encyclopedia of American Studies, presented by Emily Anderson and Bernadette May-Beaver, secondary school teachers who are piloting the online version of the EAS in their American studies classrooms. Each presenter will introduce his or her resource to the audience and discuss a model lesson using that resource, with all model lessons centered on the theme “The Making of African American Identity: 1865-1917.” This theme is especially well suited to connect with the ASA’s overarching themes of citizenship and belonging, including the ASA’s understanding that questions of citizenship have always been subject to profound redefinition. The panel’s thematic focus on African American studies is also particularly relevant for youth in the nation’s classrooms looking toward this critical period of American history in order to understand the significance of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States. This panel will allocate considerable time and discussion to the myriad ways that teachers can utilize online resources to enhance pedagogy and enrich curriculum.
10:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Challenging Citizenship: Historical Discussions, Enduring Debates
In this roundtable, sponsored by the K-16 Collaboration Committee, faculty and graduate students will discuss how they address citizenship in the classroom and through community-based projects. Historical analysis, oral history research, and student-led projects all encourage students to consider what it means to be a citizen and how that identity has shifted over time. Ultimately, this panel seeks to explore the richness with which educators examine questions of citizenship in and out of the classroom.
The roundtable will begin with Floyd Cheung, associate professor of American studies at Smith College, who will discuss how he approaches teaching questions of Asian American citizenship in his Introduction to American Studies course. His talk, “Asian Americans and the Construction of Citizenship,” will focus on how a few key notions, such as the evolution of whiteness and the injustice of internment, have played (and continue to play) an important role in shaping ideas of citizenship. Phyllis Palmer, professor and chair of American studies at George Washington University, will discuss how she approaches the question of Mexican American citizenship in both her teaching and research through challenging the limits of cultural citizenship, in her talk, “Citizenship Requires More Than Cultural Inclusion.” Jeannette Bellemeur, program coordinator for “Speak Up! Speak Out!” a project facilitated by the Strauss Institute for Civic Participation at the University of Texas at Austin, will share her experiences with Speak Up! Speak Out! which offers high school students the opportunity to engage with their community by identifying a persistent problem, researching the problem, learning about the tools available to citizens for working toward a solution, crafting a viable solution, and presenting the solution to community members at a civics fair, highlighting the role that choice plays in encouraging civic participation. Adam Bush, a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California, will discuss the ways that oral history and service-learning projects can help expose students to a deeper understanding of institutional racism and uneven geographical development, which require students to rethink what it means to be a citizen. He will address the power to transform through listening and the pedagogical relationships that sustain transformation through two projects based in New Orleans and Providence.
This panel will be chaired by Jennifer Jefferson, doctoral student in cultural studies in education at the University of Texas at Austin and the K-16 Collaboration Committee chair. A primary goal of this roundtable is to encourage discussion about the myriad ways that citizenship can be conceived of in the K-16 classroom; therefore, a considerable amount of time will be allocated to discussion and audience participation.
2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Revolution 67 in Newark, New Jersey: Documentary Film in the K-16 American Studies Classroom
This session, part of the Saturday sessions for K-16 teachers, presents the award-winning film Revolution 67, along with a conversation with the filmmakers, Jerome and Mary Lou Bongiorno. The film documents the events of the summer of 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, focusing not only on the riots but also on contributing factors such as urban economic policies, economic change and decline, job losses, “white flight,” political corruption in Newark city government, and the actions of law enforcement agencies. The filmmakers will also discuss curriculum materials for teachers that have recently been developed that make use of the film. Attendees at the session will have the opportunity to comment on the film and to discuss its utility in a classroom setting with the filmmakers.
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