4th Annual Remedial Herstory Summer Institute

The Remedial Herstory Project is hosting its fourth annual Summer Institute to tell women's stories and help teachers integrate more women's history and literature into their curriculum. Teachers and champions women's history are welcome, there is something for everyone. The retreat will feature speakers from around the world, be available online but designed for in-person, and provide educators with dozens of packaged lesson plans, videos, and other tools and resources to get women into every unit of their curriculum.

Please regsiter on our website: https://www.remedialherstory.com/summer-institute.html#/

The retreat is action packed:

Get 16+ hours of professional development

Leave with dozens of packaged ready to employ middle and high school lessons and power points

Understand inquiry-design more deeply and learn the RHP process of lesson plan development

Get Remedial Herstory goodies

Day 1
8:00-8:30: Coffee
8:30-9:00: “Welcome Exercises,” Brooke Sullivan, Board Chair
9:00-9:50: “Call to Arms,” Kelsie Brook Eckert, Executive Director
Break
10:00-10:50 Choice

• PEDAGOGY: "Strategies and Guidelines to Bypass the Sexists," Kelsie Brook Eckert, Executive Director
• US HISTORY: "Wild Women of the West," Dr. Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California

Break
11:00-11:50 Choice

• PEDAGOGY: “Was the Revolution Revolutionary?” Using Lessons with Sarah Campbell, RHP Ambassador to Maine
• ECONOMICS: “Women in Energy and Climate History,” Dr. Victoria Plutshack, Director of Development and Independent Scholar

Lunch
1:00-1:50 Choice

• PEDAGOGY: “State Standards and Teaching with Primary Sources, ” Kelsie Brook Eckert, Executive Director
• WORLD HISTORY: “Women of the Islamic Empire,” TBA

Break
2:00-2:50: Choice

• PEDAGOGY: “Introductory Lesson Workshop” Lauren Connolly, Director of Professional Development
• POLITICS: "Women, Life, Freedom: Lessons from Mahsa/Zhina Amini Protests," Dr. Filiz Ruhm, Professor of Political Science at Plymouth State University

Break
3:00-4:00:

• Walking Women's History Tour of Plymouth, "Herstory in Plain Sight."

Optional Evening Dinner at Fosters Boiler Room (not included)

Day 2
8:00-8:30: Coffee
8:30-9:50: “Continuing Lesson Workshop” Kelsie Brook Eckert, Executive Director
Break
10:00-10:50 Choice

• PEDAGOGY: “How did Hammurabi’s Code Establish Social Norms?” Using Lessons with Lauren Connolly, Director of Professional Development
• US HISTORY: “Women and Wars for Expansion,” Jacqui Nelson, MA, Director of Research

Break
11:00-11:50 Choice

• PEDAGOGY: “Continuing Lesson Workshop” Lauren Connolly, Director of Professional Development

• ECONOMICS: “Women, Economics, and Why it Matters,” Kelsie Brook Eckert, Executive Director

Lunch (not included)
1:00-1:50 Choice

• PEDAGOGY: “Why don’t women rally behind women candidates?” Using Lessons with Lauren Connolly, Director of Professional Development
• WORLD HISTORY: “Queen Njinga and Other African Queens," Kelsie Brook Eckert, Executive Director

2:00-2:50: Choice

• PEDAGOGY: “Continuing Lesson Workshop” Lauren Connolly, Director of Professional Development
• POLITICS: “Origins of the Patriarchy,” Dr. Laura Tilghman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Plymouth State University

Break
2:00-2:50: “Lesson Presentations,” Lauren Connolly, Director of Professional Development
3:00-4:00: “Building the Movement,” Kelsie Brook Eckert, Executive Director

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