OC for SS After Party // Keynote by Jane Kamensky with Rodney Pierce // 08-04-2021

Jane Kamensky’s conversation with Rodney Pierce focused on the importance of teaching the American Revolution. This is an excellent topic to be thinking about as we return to the classroom. What was your biggest takeaway after listening to Jane and Rodney’s conversation? Leave a comment below on how you will use the information from her keynote address to prepare for this upcoming school year! Looking forward to learning from each other.  

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  • We have a very demanding form of government. It’s a lot easier to be a subject of a king. It’s really hard to be in a democracy/republic because you have to be accountable and responsible to participate…

  • Taking away the idea that the American Revolution is still happening! Also, What does it mean to be American sounds like a great question to have a discussion about.

  • This conversation brought up a key piece of what we're missing to create a true full K-12 social studies program, and that is access.  Not just for high school teachers.  What if elementary school teachers…

Parents
  • The American experiment is an unfinished revolution. We're a nation born as an experiment and contest of ideas. Also born out of the ideals of liberty and equity. How can we make these promised more true? We have to work to make a more perfect union.

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  • The American experiment is an unfinished revolution. We're a nation born as an experiment and contest of ideas. Also born out of the ideals of liberty and equity. How can we make these promised more true? We have to work to make a more perfect union.

Children
  • It's a fact that Washington and Jefferson enslaved human beings. It's also a fact that, as Jan Kamensky said, "they led a bold and brilliant and world-changing experiment in liberty and equality." These facts are irreconcilable within these human beings and in the founding of this republic. Realities clashed with the republic's founding ideals. I see that as the major theme of American history. I see today's struggles as a clash between those who want to continue trying to live up to the ideals of liberty and equality, and those who want to discard the ideals as archaic and needless, except as propaganda tools. 

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