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The Critical Missions Project
Written by Professor Judy Scott and illustrated by Lydia Gibson, When the Mission Bells Rang is an imagined fable created to depict the kinds of interactions the Amah Mutsun people had with ...
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Teaching Critical Missions-in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, UCSC scholars, and K-12 teachers-see the imagined fable -When the Mission Bells Rang- to read w students historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/the-critical...
Looking forward to listening and sharing at this event Saturday! Honored to join. #NativeAmericanheritagemonth #santacruz historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/11/b...
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Looking forward to listening and sharing at this event Saturday! Honored to join. #NativeAmericanheritagemonth #santacruz historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/11/b...
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Do you support teaching #medialiteracy in K-12 classrooms? If so, pls consider donating to our efforts/programs to support that goal! We are newbies to #UCSCGivingday which ends at midnight and we appreciate any donation! We’ve got a generous donor who will match your donation! ⏰💲🤳🏼🙏🏻
The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz
Today is Giving Day and we’re celebrating 10 years of collective impact at UC Santa Cruz. Give now!
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November 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Do you support teaching #medialiteracy in K-12 classrooms? If so, pls consider donating to our efforts/programs to support that goal! We are newbies to #UCSCGivingday which ends at midnight and we appreciate any donation! We’ve got a generous donor who will match your donation! ⏰💲🤳🏼🙏🏻
Do you support teaching #medialiteracy in K-12 classrooms? If so, pls consider donating to our efforts/programs to support that goal! We are newbies to #UCSCGivingday which ends at midnight and we appreciate any donation! We’ve got a generous donor who will match your donation! ⏰💲🤳🏼🙏🏻
The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz
Today is Giving Day and we’re celebrating 10 years of collective impact at UC Santa Cruz. Give now!
www.givecampus.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Do you support teaching #medialiteracy in K-12 classrooms? If so, pls consider donating to our efforts/programs to support that goal! We are newbies to #UCSCGivingday which ends at midnight and we appreciate any donation! We’ve got a generous donor who will match your donation! ⏰💲🤳🏼🙏🏻
Short films and also students’ podcasts re: Dia de Muertos-explaining and also sharing traditions- maybe something for your classroom even if the week after?… watsonvillefilmfest.org/dia-de-muertos
Día de Muertos — Watsonville Film Festival
WFF presents Fiesta de Día de Muertos, Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 2020.
watsonvillefilmfest.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Short films and also students’ podcasts re: Dia de Muertos-explaining and also sharing traditions- maybe something for your classroom even if the week after?… watsonvillefilmfest.org/dia-de-muertos
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Sunday! Santa Cruz! The opening of a new multimedia tour at #SantaCruz mission - People Who Lived Here - created in partnership :) www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/...
California State Parks Launches New Exhibit at Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park on Sunday, Nov. 2
California State Parks
www.parks.ca.gov
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Sunday! Santa Cruz! The opening of a new multimedia tour at #SantaCruz mission - People Who Lived Here - created in partnership :) www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/...
Sunday! Santa Cruz! The opening of a new multimedia tour at #SantaCruz mission - People Who Lived Here - created in partnership :) www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/...
California State Parks Launches New Exhibit at Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park on Sunday, Nov. 2
California State Parks
www.parks.ca.gov
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Sunday! Santa Cruz! The opening of a new multimedia tour at #SantaCruz mission - People Who Lived Here - created in partnership :) www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/...
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We had the good fortune to participate in #Misinfo Day 2025 -Monterey style - today! Good stuff and good energy and good people all working on #democracy #medialiteracy (and we will share more of the good stuff soon!)
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We had the good fortune to participate in #Misinfo Day 2025 -Monterey style - today! Good stuff and good energy and good people all working on #democracy #medialiteracy (and we will share more of the good stuff soon!)
We had the good fortune to participate in #Misinfo Day 2025 -Monterey style - today! Good stuff and good energy and good people all working on #democracy #medialiteracy (and we will share more of the good stuff soon!)
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We had the good fortune to participate in #Misinfo Day 2025 -Monterey style - today! Good stuff and good energy and good people all working on #democracy #medialiteracy (and we will share more of the good stuff soon!)
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The Legislature makes the laws, the Executive executes those laws. The Legislature has the power of the purse. Revisiting the #U.S.Constitution, the supreme law of the land.
(See Articles 1,2,6).
#ruleoflaw #foundationsofdemocracy
(See Articles 1,2,6).
#ruleoflaw #foundationsofdemocracy
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Legislature makes the laws, the Executive executes those laws. The Legislature has the power of the purse. Revisiting the #U.S.Constitution, the supreme law of the land.
(See Articles 1,2,6).
#ruleoflaw #foundationsofdemocracy
(See Articles 1,2,6).
#ruleoflaw #foundationsofdemocracy
The Legislature makes the laws, the Executive executes those laws. The Legislature has the power of the purse. Revisiting the #U.S.Constitution, the supreme law of the land.
(See Articles 1,2,6).
#ruleoflaw #foundationsofdemocracy
(See Articles 1,2,6).
#ruleoflaw #foundationsofdemocracy
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Legislature makes the laws, the Executive executes those laws. The Legislature has the power of the purse. Revisiting the #U.S.Constitution, the supreme law of the land.
(See Articles 1,2,6).
#ruleoflaw #foundationsofdemocracy
(See Articles 1,2,6).
#ruleoflaw #foundationsofdemocracy
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Please Join us for this #teaching #medialiteracy event! October 20, zoom—let’s listen, learn and plan together!
#sschat #caedchat 🌎🗃️🔎
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/09/9...
#sschat #caedchat 🌎🗃️🔎
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/09/9...
Teaching Media Literacy for Civic Engagement
Hear from Scholar Allison Perlman who will present her talk, "Contextualizing Media Controversies: Censorship, Bias, and Distortion in Historical Perspective," discussing how to identify and unpack me...
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu
October 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Please Join us for this #teaching #medialiteracy event! October 20, zoom—let’s listen, learn and plan together!
#sschat #caedchat 🌎🗃️🔎
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/09/9...
#sschat #caedchat 🌎🗃️🔎
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/09/9...
Please Join us for this #teaching #medialiteracy event! October 20, zoom—let’s listen, learn and plan together!
#sschat #caedchat 🌎🗃️🔎
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/09/9...
#sschat #caedchat 🌎🗃️🔎
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/09/9...
Teaching Media Literacy for Civic Engagement
Hear from Scholar Allison Perlman who will present her talk, "Contextualizing Media Controversies: Censorship, Bias, and Distortion in Historical Perspective," discussing how to identify and unpack me...
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu
October 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Please Join us for this #teaching #medialiteracy event! October 20, zoom—let’s listen, learn and plan together!
#sschat #caedchat 🌎🗃️🔎
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/09/9...
#sschat #caedchat 🌎🗃️🔎
historyandcivicsproject.sites.ucsc.edu/2025/10/09/9...
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Don’t sleep on this exciting teacher event! This coming Monday 🗃️🌎
We are so excited that award-winning historian Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández will be giving a keynote talk at our upcoming professional development session for educators: Immigration Past and Present, Monday October 6th from 4:15-6:15pm on zoom. Register here: centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/event/immigr...
October 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Don’t sleep on this exciting teacher event! This coming Monday 🗃️🌎
Don’t sleep on this exciting teacher event! This coming Monday 🗃️🌎
We are so excited that award-winning historian Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández will be giving a keynote talk at our upcoming professional development session for educators: Immigration Past and Present, Monday October 6th from 4:15-6:15pm on zoom. Register here: centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/event/immigr...
October 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Don’t sleep on this exciting teacher event! This coming Monday 🗃️🌎
Reminded of the value of this video series for the classroom-free with the pbs app #teachinghistory www.pbs.org/show/voces-a...
VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos
Join John Leguizamo on a journey into the rich and often overlooked history of Latinos.
www.pbs.org
October 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Reminded of the value of this video series for the classroom-free with the pbs app #teachinghistory www.pbs.org/show/voces-a...
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Freedom of speech is a fundamental right of every human being. Press freedom is the life blood of a democracy. Academic freedom is the foundation of education.
#freedom #democracy #academicsky #commsky
#freedom #democracy #academicsky #commsky
September 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Freedom of speech is a fundamental right of every human being. Press freedom is the life blood of a democracy. Academic freedom is the foundation of education.
#freedom #democracy #academicsky #commsky
#freedom #democracy #academicsky #commsky
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution…”
September 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution…”
We the People
September 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
We the People
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In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
How 3 Hawaiian teen princes brought surfing to the mainland
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
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September 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
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Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. One last thing I wanted to share is this video we did as part of Crash Course Black American History that examines the storm and its aftermath.
Thinking about all my New Orleans people today. And always.
youtu.be/VmqZvlj07-w
Thinking about all my New Orleans people today. And always.
youtu.be/VmqZvlj07-w
Hurricane Katrina: Crash Course Black American History #49
YouTube video by CrashCourse
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. One last thing I wanted to share is this video we did as part of Crash Course Black American History that examines the storm and its aftermath.
Thinking about all my New Orleans people today. And always.
youtu.be/VmqZvlj07-w
Thinking about all my New Orleans people today. And always.
youtu.be/VmqZvlj07-w
Are you an educator local to the #santacruz region? Check this event out next weekend, Sept 6! Join us! At the Whale museum ;) santacruzmuseum.org/event/educat...
Educator Workshop with the Amah Mutsun - Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
Join the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History for a collaborative workshop connecting local educators with tribal leaders and scholars. This workshop aims to deepen knowledge, clarify terminology, and...
santacruzmuseum.org
August 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Are you an educator local to the #santacruz region? Check this event out next weekend, Sept 6! Join us! At the Whale museum ;) santacruzmuseum.org/event/educat...
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If you want a fuller history of the Confederate monument being returned to Arlington National Cemetery, check out my essay in this book. That’s it on the cover.
August 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
If you want a fuller history of the Confederate monument being returned to Arlington National Cemetery, check out my essay in this book. That’s it on the cover.
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Watch the seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia sweep beneath seismic stations in North America.
By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪
By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪
July 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Watch the seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia sweep beneath seismic stations in North America.
By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪
By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪
JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.
July 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Civics Ed in this on point article (with some great phrasing/sentences and references to specifics in CA HSS Framework) by historian @jrakove.bsky.social #teachdemocracy washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.
washingtonmonthly.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Civics Ed in this on point article (with some great phrasing/sentences and references to specifics in CA HSS Framework) by historian @jrakove.bsky.social #teachdemocracy washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...