At the Remedial Herstory Project, we know that we are only as strong as the people marching behind us.
We have been so grateful to form partnerships with individuals and organizations across the world. Thank you to all who have supported our journey. A special thanks to the following organizations who have backed us in the past and present.
In 2022, the Remedial Herstory Project won a major grant from the Library of Congress with Primary Sources Eastern Region Program, coordinated by Waynesburg University. This grant allowed us to build 55 or more inquiry-based lesson plans for secondary students on women's history using Library of Congress and other primary resources. All our lessons follow the inquiry model and are driven by primary analysis where students learn to DO historical analysis.
When we began building lesson plans in 2020, we started by exploring what was already out there on the internet and providing links to these tools on our website. Most of the resources we found were biographies of important women. Our criteria were resources that were freely available online and involved primary source reading. We feel that to engage students in the learning process, the lesson should be driven by a debatable, researchable, and important question. Preparing students to investigate and practice the skills of a historian and to draw conclusions, brings greater understanding and develops critical thinking skills. Each of our lessons is driven by an “inquiry” or a question and the students consult provided sources to pursue that inquiry. All our lessons aim for that.
Although not all will, we hope that our lesson plans meet the Eckert Test, a term we coined in our TEDx Talk. The Eckert Test requires that all lesson plans include 2 or more women or women’s groups, from differing backgrounds, who disagree in some way. We sorted our lessons and those produced by others into eras of both US and world history. With this structuring, we could then see where gaps in women’s history existed. We then identified 55 gaps in available resources for educators-- this project closed the gap.
When we began building lesson plans in 2020, we started by exploring what was already out there on the internet and providing links to these tools on our website. Most of the resources we found were biographies of important women. Our criteria were resources that were freely available online and involved primary source reading. We feel that to engage students in the learning process, the lesson should be driven by a debatable, researchable, and important question. Preparing students to investigate and practice the skills of a historian and to draw conclusions, brings greater understanding and develops critical thinking skills. Each of our lessons is driven by an “inquiry” or a question and the students consult provided sources to pursue that inquiry. All our lessons aim for that.
Although not all will, we hope that our lesson plans meet the Eckert Test, a term we coined in our TEDx Talk. The Eckert Test requires that all lesson plans include 2 or more women or women’s groups, from differing backgrounds, who disagree in some way. We sorted our lessons and those produced by others into eras of both US and world history. With this structuring, we could then see where gaps in women’s history existed. We then identified 55 gaps in available resources for educators-- this project closed the gap.
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We are excited to announce our official partnership with A Tour Of Her Own. TOHO is the first tourism company in Washington, DC to focus exclusively on women’s history and we proudly support their programming, The LINEUP, that includes live and virtual tours, salons, and book talks. Their 2022 schedule is open for registration and we are happy to share our partner benefits with you! Our network is welcome to a 35% discount on all programs in The LINEUP as well as all annual memberships. Use promo code RHPROJECT2022 at checkout: https://www.atourofherown.com/partners2022.
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The Remedial Herstory Project is thrilled to partner with ecoText. We are entirely dedicated to bringing meaningful curriculum and resources to the primary and secondary classrooms and believe ecoText’s tools will give teachers more resources to make complex materials and texts accessible to more students. We share their passion for reforming education and making it more inclusive. Click to learn more about their materials.
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