News & Events
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Welcome to the Teaching California Beta Website!
August 20, 2019
An introduction to the new Teaching California beta website, now live at teachingcalifornia.org.
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Uncovering Remarkable Documents in Teaching California
July 17, 2019
When exploring primary sources for our new Teaching California project, we came across two remarkable documents from our manuscripts collection that will soon be incorporated into our growing set of K-12 instructional materials.
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Teaching the Honest and Troubling History of Native California
July 11, 2019
Editor’s Note: As we travel around California, one of the most frequent concerns we hear from teachers is that they don’t feel prepared to teach students about the history of California Indians.
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Children’s Voices from the Archives: Remembering the 1906 Earthquake and Fire
April 17, 2019
A closer look at one of the primary sources digitized from the California Historical Society’s collections for Teaching California, a letter written by 12-year-old Elsie Cross during the 1906 earthquake and fire.
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On the Road: California Council for the Social Studies in San Jose, 2019
March 25, 2019
A recap of Teaching California on the road at the California Council for the Social Studies conference.
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Reading Pictures
February 11, 2019
Questions to ask when you first look at a photograph, painting, or illustration—be it in the museum, or on your phone’s screen.
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Digital Curriculum Educator Survey Results from the Teaching California project
January 21, 2019
Navigation North are helping CHS think through how we might build an experience around the grade-level instructional materials we are creating, called “Inquiry Sets,” for teachers and students in a classroom setting. An initial piece of research that helped us explore this was a Digital Curriculum Needs Survey, which Navigation North created for teachers late last year.
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Visual Prototyping Helps Guide a Team in Unlocking California’s History for Classrooms Across the State
November 13, 2018
Web developers from Navigation North traveled to San Francisco to do some early-stage visual prototyping with the California Historical Society team.
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Spotlighting the Use of Primary Sources in Teaching California
October 17, 2018
This post spotlights the important primary source-driven philosophy of our Teaching California project, and shares some of the great examples that we’ve been incorporating in our content development.
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Teaching California, An Origin Story
September 13, 2018
We sat down with the directors of the two organizations spearheading the project to find out how Teaching California came to be.
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Designing for our Audiences in Teaching California
July 2, 2018
The California Historical Society (CHS) and its partners at The California History and Social Science Project (CHSSP) have the unique opportunity, thanks to a substantial grant from the state’s Department of Education, to develop Teaching California, a free K-12 online curriculum that puts California’s archives at the center of student investigation into the past. Crucial to this initiative will be taking a co-designing approach with the audiences we want to engage, so that what is created is as discoverable and widely-used by those audiences as possible.
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