Integrated Curriculum
Organizing learning and meshing the subject areas around a broad theme
provides the framework for integrating the curriculum. This kind of curriculum change
is suggested by Gloria Ladson-Billings (CRT) in this interview:
from Berkeley Anti-Racist Resources for Educators
"Here’s what I mean: If you take an ethnic studies course and one week we’re focusing on Mexican Americans and then one week we’re focusing on American Indians, what you get is that people are engaged and less engaged depending on what group you’re in. A very different approach would be to look across the common experiences of people and pull all those experiences to illustrate a point or an issue. If I were teaching one of these courses, one of the first issues I might take up with students is migration, because everybody has a migration story, not just Mexican-Americans or Central Americans. Everybody’s got one. It’s a fundamental question: How did you get here? That can be answered by everybody, and we can look across the migration stories to raise other kinds of questions. You might have a study about a concept like assimilation and acculturation: What is it that your family has done to assimilate into American society, or how have they acculturated if they haven’t assimilated? How have they made life here work for them?
Taking big ideas and then pulling across all of the different cultural groups requires a lot of knowledge, though, and a lot of times we get lazy. It’s much easier to say, “Oh, I’m doing this two weeks on the Irish Americans.” Now, the Irish Americans have a very interesting migration story. If you’ve ever seen the film Gangs of New York, you’re kind of shocked: “Oh my gosh, they went through all of this. I just assumed they were white and they just fit in.” No, they didn’t. There’s a powerful migration story in the same way that the Chinese on the West Coast have a powerful migration story.
Original Integrated Curriculum Resources
Many of us teaching the arts found hope for change in the work of Howard Gardner, David Perkins and Art Costa. Integrated Curriculum as modeled by Nancy Skerritt in the Tahoma School District grew out of the application of these combined theories and practices:
Howard Gardner and Multiple Intelligences Theory
1983 to Present
Multiple Intelligences and the Process of Teaching and Learning — MI Oasis 12/2020
A Synthesizing Mind by Howard Gardner
and David Perkins, Project Zero
Spencer Foundation funded Perkins for this study, 2006
Integrated Curriculum and Art Costa's and Bena Kallick's Habits of Mind
Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum pdf p 102How to Integrate the 16 Habits of Mind in Your Classroom
Habits of Mind Institute Current Website
From the Institute Site:
Increasing Autonomy with Habits of Mind (high school teacher and Habits of Mind Consultant Daniel Vollrath)
Many of us teaching the arts found hope for change in the work of Howard Gardner, David Perkins and Art Costa. Integrated Curriculum as modeled by Nancy Skerritt in the Tahoma School District grew out of the application of these combined theories and practices:
1983 to Present
Multiple Intelligences and the Process of Teaching and Learning — MI Oasis 12/2020
A Synthesizing Mind by Howard Gardner
and David Perkins, Project Zero
Based on Books - Ideas and Resources:
Melba Pattillo Beals
Warriors Don't Cry: Brown Comes to Little Rock available for purchase, includes a role play activity
On the bus before Rosa Parks
Civil Rights and Justice
Senator John Lewis
2013 ALA Annual Conference - Congressman John Lewis
Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird
Disrupting 'To Kill a Mockingbird' |
Perspective | The truths ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ tells about white people
Primary Sources
Close Looking: Art in the Classroom –
Welcome to Pedagogy & American Literary Studies
Teaching Strategy: Analyzing Images | Facing History
Facing History's Primary Sources
(Why Facing History and Ourselves)
Criminal Justice Reform
Netflix
Yusef Salaam is a member of the Exonerated Five. The main character in Punching the Air is based on him in a fictional collaboration with Ibi Soboi.
Flight and Freedom
Ringgold’s story quilts were on display at this show and were, of course, impressive to view in person. Some of the stories and other works were depicted in her books for children and were excellent books to use for music instruction.
Books by Faith Ringgold and Complete Book Reviews
Faith Ringgold – If One Can Anyone Can All you Gotta Do Is Try
``Quilt paintings''--acrylic on canvas paper, with fabric borders from Ringgold's story quilt of the same name--illustrate a Depression era girl's imaginative foray to heights from which she can see and therefore claim her world.
Walters, W. W. (1997). "One of dese mornings, bright and fair,/Take my wings and cleave de air":
Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/203664191?accountid=114
Thorsteinson, Katherine. "FROM ESCAPE TO ASCENSION: THE EFFECTS OF AVIATION TECHNOLOGY ON THE FLYING AFRICAN MYTH." Criticism, vol. 57, no. 2, 2015, pp. 259-281. eLibrary,https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/1767583248?accountid=114.
King, Lovalerie. "RESISTANCE, REAPPROPRIATION, AND RECONCILIATION: THE BLUES AND FLYING AFRICANS IN GAYL JONES'S SONG FOR ANNINHO." Callaloo, vol. 27, no. 3, 2004, pp. 755-767. eLibrary,https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/233170560?accountid=114.
Scholarly articles above can be accessed through the eSources at Pierce County Library.
Toni Morrison Celebration Keynote and Bluest Eye Reading
BluestEyeAt50 — Love As A Kind of Cure
The first mystery novel by an African American
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher
Whitewashing the Great Depression / The Atlantic
Mental Health
Medicine Creek, the Treaty That Set the Stage for Standing Rock
National Archives:
University of Washington Course Reading:
Medicine creek to Fox Island: cadastral scams and contested domains.
History from Wikipedia:
The Indian History of Fox Island and the
Puget Sound Indian War - Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth
(This book is available at the Fort Nisqually Research Library and Tacoma Library for in library use)
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco (Canada Dine)
Fracking Controversy and History in Northern Canada
(photos from book)
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