On February 11, educators gathered for the Teaching Hard History workshop, focused on developing resources for youth in Detroit to learn about the intersectional history of racism and police violence – as well as community activism in response.
The full-day workshop was co-organized by the Carceral State Project’s Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab with U-M’s Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER) and the Office of Social Studies in the Detroit Public Schools Community District.
Supported in part by a Collaboratory Dissemination Grant, the workshop asked Detroit Public School teachers to explore and give feedback on curricular materials and digital resources. Participants reviewed a curriculum guide for high school students to the Detroit Under Fire website, for example, which was produced as part of the Documenting Criminalization & Confinement Project Grant.
“The event laid the groundwork for collaborations that will focus on developing and field-testing additional curricula for middle- and high-school students in and beyond the city of Detroit.”
Read more about the teacher workshop in the February 2023 Newsletter of the Carceral State Project.
