PD Online Workshop, Empowering Educators: Strategies for Integrating Black History in the Classroom

PD Online Workshop, Empowering Educators: Strategies for Integrating Black History in the Classroom
May 11th, 2026

This self-paced, asynchronous professional development workshop series offers an interdisciplinary approach to examining Black history through several humanities disciplines, including History, English, Sociology, and Philosophy. Teachers will explore the rich and diverse culture of African Americans from pre-colonial West Africa to the present through 8-week modules. The themes for each module range from Africa and the Black Diaspora to Power and Resistance, Black Joy, and Deconstructing Critical Race Theory. Each module will provide a broad but rigorous overview of the U.S. Black experience, with a particular focus on New Jersey’s African American communities. Major themes and historical figures will include Trans-Saharan trade and West African empires, U.S. Slavery and Emancipation, The Harlem Renaissance and Great Migration, Civil Rights/Black Power movements, the post-World War II urban crisis, Hip Hop culture, Black conservatism, and the Black Lives Matter movement. In-service teachers will examine the political experience of African Americans, and a range of prominent thinkers like Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, and Alain Locke along with a survey of writings by authors like Phillis Wheatley, Zora Neal Hurston, Audre Lorde, Thomas Sowell, Glen Loury, and Alicia Garza. They will study a range of genres, including music, art, fiction, poetry, autobiography, and nonfiction, from the earliest published work by African Americans through to the present day.

Dates

May 11th, 2026

Pricing

$200.00

Refunds

No refunds

Have Questions?

Please contact Daniela Richards at richardsd@rowan.edu for any questions.