View this email in your browser NEWSLETTER EDITION: APRIL 2018 Join us for Eat, Drink & Be Thoughful on May 10! We hope you'll join us for our 2018 benefit, Eat, Drink & Be Thoughtful! We'll start with a cocktail reception featuring music by 440 - Gypsy Jazz, followed by a conversation with Professor Jonathan Kaufman titled "Does Truth Matter? How Media and Education Interact in a Democratic Society". Thursday, May 10, 20186:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Berenson Hall, Hebrew College160 Herrick Road, Newton Global Citizen Education Alliance releases tool for school leaders Last year, our Executive Director, Jennifer Boyle Nigro, was selected, along with co-chair Nafisa Shekhova (Aga Khan Foundation), by the Varkey Foundation to lead the Global Citizenship Education Alliance. Now, the Alliance invites teachers and school leaders to assess their global citizenship performance using the tool that they have created. This new tool allows school leaders and teachers to measure the extent to which they are promoting global citizenship through their systems, policies, and partnerships. Click here to learn more Board Spotlight: Introducing Christine Cunningham, PhD Dr. Christine Cunningham is an educational researcher who works to make engineering and science more relevant, accessible, and understandable, especially for underserved and underrepresented populations. A vice president at the Museum of Science, Boston since 2003, she is the Founding Director of Engineering is Elementary™, a groundbreaking project that integrates engineering concepts into preschool, elementary, and middle school curriculum and teacher professional development. Cunningham is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and received the ASEE K-12 and Pre-College Division Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. She was awarded the 2014 International Society for Design and Development in Education Prize, the 2015 IEEE Pre-University Educator Award, and the 1991 Alpheus Henry Snow Prize. In 2017, her work was recognized with the prestigious Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education. Cunningham holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in biology from Yale and a Ph.D. in Science Education from Cornell University. Guest Blog Post: "Insist on Persistent Women: Women's History in the K-8 Classroom" Young people need stories of persistent women who have fought for gender equality. As our Program Director Susan Zeiger points out in her guest blog for Teaching Tolerance, now is the perfect time to recommit to those stories.Click here to read the post Summer Institutes Face-to-Face Programs Literature and History of American Protest July 9 - 13Especially for educators of grades 8-12 Teaching for Global Understanding in the 21st Century July 16 - 20 Open to all K-12 educators Online Courses Thinking Like a Historian: Immigration History Through Primary Sources July 11 - August 7 Especially for educators of grades K-8 Windows to the Islamic World: Art, Architecture & MusicJuly 11 - August 7Open to all K-12 educators Summer Teaching Adventure with SABEH Now in its 14th year, SABEH, welcomes experienced teachers of all subjects and grade levels to apply tor a 4-6 week trip to China in July 2018. Instruct in creative teaching strategies using US topics as content (plus Chinese translators) to high school, middle school and elementary Chinese teachers. Teaching is intense and is followed by a week’s free travel in China. Cost is ONLY one half of the airfare. See www.sabeh.org for more information and the application form. Contact Join Us Connect Primary Source101 Walnut StreetWatertown, MA 02472(617) 923-9933 Join our global learning community and gain access to rich content, resources, and activities for globalizing your curriculum. © 2018 Primary Source. | Primary Source is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Privacy Policy | Email Preferences