EventWorking with Immigrant/Refugee Children & Families: Session 3
Join us for the third in a series of teaching webinars in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education’s history and social science program. With engaging group discussions, visits from …
NewsEducation Innovation
Education will never be the same. While no one has the answers, decisions are being made and teachers, professors and families are rapidly adapting.
NewsBack in Session
Despite fears of a virus resurgence, Virginia Tech and William & Mary both announced they will re-open in the Fall. What’s their plan for keeping students safe? And will higher education be forever changed?
NewsSchool’s Out
UVA Wise was ahead of the curve in online learning, and America’s earliest stories get an inclusive reworking.
NewsGirlhood
Skip to show segment Bilingual Storytelling Meg Medina Newbery Medal-winning children’s author Meg Medina talks about the power of writing in Spanglish, and relates her own childhood to her 2019 …
NewsFinding Classroom Success
From racial disparity and poverty to shyness, students face a lot of obstacles heading into college. But some professors are finding new ways to support them and forge a path to success.
NewsThe Whole Story
Virginia Humanities helps reveal the lives of the enslaved and widen the scope of narratives presented at plantations statewide.
NewsFrom Conversation to Collective Action
There is active racism, passive racism, and active antiracism, wrote clinical psychologist Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum in her groundbreaking, national bestselling 1997 book, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting …
NewsBay to Belly
By Nora Pehrson Thanks to a grant from Virginia Humanities, the Watermen’s Museum in Yorktown, Virginia is developing a traveling exhibit devoted to the food systems of the Chesapeake Bay …
NewsRemembering Helen White
The Virginia Folklife Program is deeply shocked and saddened at the news of the passing of our good friend Helen White. Helen channeled her tireless passion for the music and …
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NewsAnnouncing the Inaugural Betsy S. Barton Teacher of the Year
Virginia Humanities’ Encyclopedia Virginia announces the inaugural presentation of the Betsy S. Barton Teacher of the Year Award at the 53rd Annual Virginia Conference for Social Studies Educators in Williamsburg, …
