Lisa Brown Buchanan, associate professor in the Watts Williams School of Education, co-presented at the 4th Annual Teaching Black History Conference in July. Carter Center’s Annual Teaching Black History Conference brings together educators who seek transformative and engaging ways to teach PK-12 Black history in both history and humanities courses.
Lisa Brown Buchanan, associate professor in the Watts Williams School of Education, co-presented at the 4th Annual Teaching Black History Conference on July 23.
Along with Watson College of Education at UNC Wilmington faculty members Cara Ward, Donyell Roseboro and Denise Ousley, Buchanan presented a session for university faculty and teachers in grades 4-12 titled “Examining the Racial Violence, Coup, and Economic Impact of the 1898 Wilmington Race Massacre with Pre-service and In-service Teachers.”
The session focused on using a history lab and children’s literature to learn about 1898 and the lasting impacts with grades 4 through 8. An interdisciplinary, place-based experience at Pine Forest Cemetery in Wilmington, NC was used to examine 1898 with grades 9 through 12. Buchanan, Ward, Roseboro and Ousley have provided a number of teacher professional development sessions around the Wilmington Race Massacre and teaching social studies; this session is part of their larger body of scholarship around teaching 1898.
The annual conference is hosted by the Carter Center for K-12 Black History Education at the University of Missouri. Carter Center’s Annual Teaching Black History Conference brings together educators who seek transformative and engaging ways to teach PK-12 Black history in both history and humanities courses. Teachers gain tangible strategies to incorporate in their classrooms that focus on content and pedagogy, active learning, support and collaboration, and instructional approaches.