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Webinar Registration: Topics and Schedule

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Webinar Registration: Topics and Schedule

2024 Webinar Series

The MDE began the webinar series to assist educators learning around historical movements, events, and peoples that are part of the rich, diverse history of our country and world during the 2021-2022 school year. These free virtual webinars will explore multiple topics that supports content knowledge to assist classroom teacher practices and positively impact student’s history learning experiences. 

The webinar series is produced in collaboration with institutions of higher education, cultural centers, and the 12 federally recognized tribes of Michigan that form the Confederation of Michigan Tribal Education Departments to assist educators with the teaching of and learning about comprehensive history through thematic instruction. 

Each webinar session will feature a unique presentation on a given subject. Educators interested in a given topic are encouraged to attend all sessions associated with the topic.

The series of free virtual webinars continues with the following topics (all times are in the Eastern Time Zone). 

 
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Honoring Connection -  Essential Understandings for Michigan: April 30, 2025

Developed by the Confederation of Michigan Tribal Education Departments (CMTED) and the Michigan Department of Education’s Indigenous Education Initiative (IEI), Essential Understandings for Michigan serve as foundational knowledge about Indigenous communities and Tribal Nations that share geography with the state of Michigan. Explore key insights and perspectives that Indigenous communities and Tribal Nations encourage Michigan’s citizenry to understand and appreciate.

Presenters: TBD

Diverse group of adults gathered around a fire sharing knowledge.

Maawn Doobiigeng (Gather Together): December 11, 2024

Join us to learn about a new, community-led classification system designed by Saginaw Chippewa Tribal community members. This innovative system, now being introduced in libraries, reclaims and centers Indigenous Knowledge. 

Presenters:

  • Anne Heidemann, Tribal Librarian for the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Libraries
  • Melissa Isaac, Gizhwaasod for the Michigan Department of Education's Indigenous Education Initiative
Photo depicting three Jewish women, all members of the armed resistance, having been captured by the SS. The woman on the left (partially out of frame) is Rachela Wyszogrodzka, her sister Bluma Wyszogrodzka is in the center, and Małka Zdrojewicz is on the right, circa 1945

This webinar will share how the Holocaust was not gender neutral. Women experienced the Holocaust as women and were targeted differently as women.

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 4-5:30 p.m. 

Braastad store, Ispeming MI c. 1904 This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 15000946.

This webinar will use the novel Women of Copper Country and the non-fiction book We Kept Our Towns Going as springboards. We will demonstrate how to find and use primary and secondary sources from the Library of Michigan, MEL.org, and other online sources to delve into Michigan Women involved in labor history.

Wednesday, Sept. 18, 4-5:30 p.m.

 

Mexican Farm Workers Who have been Accepted for Farm Labor in the U.S. through the Braceros Program, circa 1943

This webinar series will cover the history and impact of the U.S. temporary labor program, largely known as the Bracero Program. 

Wednesday, Sept. 4, 4-5 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 11, 4-5 p.m.

Gelatin silver photographic print of Mary Church Terrell

This webinar series will discuss how enslaved and free African Americans fought for civil and equal rights in the United States in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Wednesday, August 7, 4-5 p.m.

Wednesday, August 14, 4-5 p.m.

Wednesday, August 21, 4-5 p.m.