Curriculum Team Meeting-Rescheduled

The next Curriculum Team Meeting, originally scheduled for 4/8/08 will be rescheduled due to some conflict in schedules. We'll keep you posted.

At the last meeting, we carefully looked through Boston's USI and USII History Standards to highlight content areas that can include AA history. We plan to write AA-specific lesson plans (or gather resources for those lessons) to compile in a publication that can be given to teachers to use as a resource guide.

At the next meeting, we plan to continue our examination of the USI and USII standards and identify teachers and resources that can help with the writing of lesson plans.

We don't want to reinvent the wheel, so if you are a history teacher who already has lessons written, we can use your help! We can also use the help of any history buffs! Contact apa.educators@gmail.com for directions to the meeting, for more information, or if you're interested in helping in whatever capacity, large or small.

Thanks,

Sarah, Jessica, and Keith

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