LGBTQ+ History, Youth Activism, and Collaboration

Middle and High School People’s History Working Group

October 9, 2021

For their October meeting, the curriculum working group kicked off with trivia focused on people’s LGBTQ+ history. After this, Rose Vigil, an 8th grade teacher new to the working group this academic year, did a lesson share of the unit on Youth Activism that she wrote during this summer’s NEH Institute on the Civil Rights Movement.

Working group members went into breakout rooms to read through and provide feedback on the resources Rose prepared, and the group met back in the main room to offer verbal feedback to Rose. Educators that provided feedback noted: “I liked the youth activism unit. Might use some of it in my sociology class,” and Rose shared, “I absolutely loved the fantastic feedback on the unit plan! So many brilliant ideas on how to revise or edit the plan.”