2020 NCHE Equity Summit

Join educators and historians in conversation as we discuss how to
teach the complex history of race and ethnicity in America.

Summit Schedule

August 4

11:00am - 12:00pm
Virtual Field Trip: Interpreting Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon (Session Video)

1:00 - 3:00pm
Panel: Diverse Histories, Diverse Learners (Session Video)
Rusty Carlock, Albemarle High School
Ava Jolley, North Salem High School
Andrea Kolb, Center for Schools and Communities
Curtis Lewis, Black Male Educators Alliance of Michigan

4:00 - 5:00pm
Keynote Session: Seizing the Moment: Teaching Race and Racism Today (Session Video)
(PowerPoint) (Recommended Books & Links) (Census Race Options)
Hasan Jeffries, Ohio State University

7:00 - 9:00pm
Panel: Teaching the Legacy of Slavery (Session Video)
Hasan Jeffries, The Ohio State University
Alana Murray, Shady Grove Middle School
Kate Shuster, Teaching Tolerance's Teaching Hard History

August 5

10:00 - 11:00am
Virtual Field Trip: Interpreting Northern Slavery at Philipsburg Manor (Session Video)

11:00am - 12:00pm
More to the Movement: Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement (Session Video)
(Power Point) (Recommended Book List)
Elizabeth Novara, Library of Congress

1:00 - 3:00pm
Panel: Systems of Race and Ethnicity (Session Video)
Damika Baker, Reginal Lewis Museum
Sam Mihara, Author
Candacy Taylor, Author

4:00 - 5:00pm
Keynote Session: Making it Easier to Teach Hard History (Session Video)
Kate Shuster, Teaching Tolerance’s Teaching Hard History

7:00 - 9:00pm
Panel: A History of Resistance (Session Video)
Luis Martínez-Fernández, University of Central Florida
Ruth Payno-Simmons, RPS Educational Impact
Yohuru Williams, University of St. Thomas

August 6

10:00 - 11:00am
History Matters (...and so does coffee!) (Session Video)
Joanne Freeman, Yale University

11:00am - 12:00pm
Keynote Session: Black Founding Fathers of the United States of America (Video is Members Only)
LaGarrett King, University of Missouri

1:00 - 3:00pm
Panel: Monuments and Memory (Session Video)
Lisa Blee, Wake Forest University
Jonathan Kubakundimana, Equal Justice Initiative
Kevin Levin, Independent Historian
Allison Wickens, George Washington's Mount Vernon

4:00 - 5:00pm
Keynote Session: Simply Because People Refuse to See Me: Black Lives Matter in Historical Context (Session Video)
Yohuru Williams, University of St. Thomas

7:00 - 8:00pm
Student Voices: National History Day Project on Race and Ethnicity