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Examine the Educator's Bulletin Board below for notices of upcoming events, professional development opportunities and new classroom resources. Explore the links on the right of this page for a wide variety of professional resources geared toward WEAC members.
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Happy Labor History Month!
Posted: 5/20/2010 9:21:05 AM
In Wisconsin, schools are now expected to teach "knowledge of the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process."
Late in 2009, the Legislature passed Assembly Bill 172 amending the state statute on General School Operations to include this briefly worded labor history requirement.
Some helpful on-line resources for living up to this new requirement have been compiled by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board in a new Labor History Surf Report. For example:
- historical images relating to labor unions, from the Wisconsin Historical Society
- a child labor activity, Lowell Mill Girl, which has students play farm girl Eliza Paige, as she moves to an industrial city to work in the mills
- labor songs, collected by the Smithsonian Institute
- biographical sites on Cesar Chavez, Emma Goldman, Samuel Gompers, and other key figures
- lesson plans for elementary and secondary students, such as The Bay View Tragedy of 1886, where high school students compare two memoirs of labor demonstrations in Milwaukee
