Black History Nerds Saturday School
Black History Nerds Saturday School is our professional development series for pre-K–12 school teachers and others interested in learning more about Black history and race. These one-hour sessions aim to help develop Black history content pedagogical knowledge. Professional development credits are possible.
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Akil Parker, M.Ed | CEO of All This Math
Expanding So-Called NIL Deals of Historical Exemplars
Jan. 10, 2026 | 11 a.m. ET
Abigail Henry | Schomburg Fellow and GSE PhD Student
Ismael Jimenez | Co-Chair of Big City Social Studies
Honoring the Legacy: Creating the Blackprint 20
Feb. 21, 2026 | 11 a.m. ET
Tiffany M. Nyachae, PhD | Penn State University
But What Did Black Educators Already Teach Us about Reading Instruction? Exposing Paucity in the Science of Reading and other Approaches
March 14, 2026 | 11 a.m. ET
Natasha Henry-Dixon, PhD | York University
Freedom for Me and also for Thee: The History and Significance of Binational Emancipation Day Commemorations
Apr. 11, 2026 | 11 a.m. ET
Anthony Brown, PhD and Keffrelyn Brown, PhD
Framing Black History: Exploring Research and Pedagogical Possibilities
May 9, 2026 | 11 a.m. ET
Abstract: The purpose of this presentation is to explore the use of frameworks for assessing the quality and content of Black History education. We will define the meaning and purpose of these frameworks in analyzing curricula. To connect to K-12 Black history curricula, we will examine how to apply Dr. LaGarrett King’s Teaching Black History Framework and demonstrate its use in our research.
Freedom for Me and also for Thee: The History and Significance of Binational Emancipation Day Commemorations
Natasha Henry-Dixon, PhD | York University
Published April 11, 2026
But What Did Black Educators Already Teach Us about Reading Instruction? Exposing Paucity in the Science of Reading and other Approaches
Tiffany M. Nyachae, PhD | Penn State University
Published March 14, 2026
Honoring the Legacy: Creating the Blackprint 20
Abigail Henry | Schomburg Fellow and GSE PhD Student
Ismael Jimenez | Co-Chair of Big City Social Studies
Published February 21, 2026
Expanding So-Called NIL Deals of Historical Exemplars
Akil Parker, M.Ed
Published January 10, 2026
Voices Still Crying out From the Wilderness: Lessons From Black Educators 20 years post Katrina
Daniella Cook Sumpter, PhD
Published December 13, 2025
"If We Don’t Get: A People’s History of Ferguson" and Reflections on 10 Years of Black Lives Matter
Stefan Bradley, PhD
Published November 8, 2025
Sovereign Learning: Black Home Education From Historical Necessity to Contemporary Choice
Cheryl Fields-Smith, PhD
Published September 13, 2025
I’ve Got a Testimony!: Reading, Recovering and Revisioning in Black History Picture Books
Dawnavyn James
Published May 10, 2025
Cultivating a Culturally Responsive Paradigm
Ashanti Haynes, PhD
Published March 15, 2025
Teaching Black History in an Age of Backlash: Strategies for Navigating Political Headwinds
Yohuru Williams, PhD
Published February 22, 2025
Freedom Teaching Toolkit Introduction
Emilye Crosby, PhD | SUNY Geneseo
Judy Richardson | Filmmaker, SNCC Organizer
Published February 15, 2025
Harriet Jacobs: Survivor, Advocate, Artist
Koritha Mitchell, PhD
Published February 8, 2025
A Rising Imbalance: Civil Rights and the Demise of Black Republicanism in the 1960s
Charles McKinney, PhD
Published February 1, 2025
Criminal Minded: The Mathematics of Slave Rebellions
Akil Parker
Published January 11, 2025
60th Anniversary of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
Dr. La Tasha Levy
Published November 9, 2024
Black Millennials, Slipping Alliances, and the Democratic Party
Dr. Donovan Watts
Published October 12, 2024
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Kellie Carter Jackson, PhD
Published September 14, 2024
From West Philadelphia to Burlington, Vermont: African American History for Teachers
Abigail Henry
Published May 11, 2024
Black Elephants in the Room
Corey D. Fields, PhD
Published April 27, 2024
History Matters: Wellness, Healing and Community Care Through the Lens of Black Experiences
Marcus Sankofa Nicks
Published March 9, 2024
Education as Revolution: Septima Clark and Black Citizenship Education
Dr. KRISTEN DUNCAN
Published February 17, 2024
Examining Black Studies
Dr. Frederick Douglass Dixon
Published February 10, 2024
Carter G. Woodson: Writing Black History into America's Culture
Dr. daryl Scott
Published February 3, 2024
Race, Abolition & Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Tiera Tanksley
Published January 13, 2024
Understanding Statistics to Give Meaning to Black History
Akil Parker
Published December 9, 2023
#TeachBlackHistory Any Day, Every Day and all Year Long
Dawnavyn James
Published November 11, 2023
Everyday AfroIndigenous Spiritual Practice as History Pedagogy
Dr. Eliana Castro and Dr. Krista L. Cortes
Published October 14, 2023
Lessons from Life Row
Dr. Rachel McMillian
Published September 23, 2023
The Underground Railroad, The Black Inner Geek, & The Outer Spaces of Slavery (Afrofuturism)
Dr. Daniel Broyld
Published April 1, 2023
Social Justice in Historical Context
Dr. Ashley Farmer
Published March 4, 2023
What You Heard? Teaching with Oral Histories of Black America
DR. Arcasia James-Gallaway
Published February 25, 2023
Why Aren't Black People Allowed to Fear in U.S. History
Brittany Jones
Published February 18, 2023
Hands That Pick Cotton Now Pick Public Officials: Black Women's Geography and the Activism of Fannie Lou Hammer
Dr. Amanda Vickery
Published February 11, 2023
From History to Destiny: What Does it Mean to be Black
Dr. Chike Akua
Published February 4, 2023
A Love Letter to Buffalo: #BuffaloSyllabus and Digital Scholarship
J. Coley, Dr. Robert Mays, William Richardson and Tiana U. Wilson
Published January 21, 2023
The Hill Project, A Black Studies Curriculum
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
Published February 26, 2022
Teaching Black History to White People
Dr. Leonard Moore
Published February 19, 2022
Historical Literacy as Racial Literacy
Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Published February 12, 2022
The Art of Black Teaching
Dr. Jarvis Givens
Published February 5, 2022
