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3/6/2023 21:48:13Carolyn StreetsCarolyn.streets@new-haven.k12.ct.usESUMS 8 ELANot sure yet- perhaps touch upon eugenics during unit reading Number the StarsResearch helpThis was a fantastic seminar 26 yr veteran teacher ELA, ESUMSFramework for understanding Eugenics and how it reproduce itself in the curriculum
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3/6/2023 19:21:29Colleen Simoncsimon@ssds-hartford.orgGrade 8 HumanitiesI teach a unit on immigration and I cover Jewish immigration into the US especially during the rise of Nazism. I would like to do a lesson introducing eugenics and introducing William Nussbaum. I would like to include information on his son Michael who was "born with an arm that stops at the elbow." His son was detained at Ellis Island for two weeks. I would like to know if there is anything on William Nussbaum in the Yale Archives. If the Nussbaum lesson plan might prove too cumbersome, I would like to read the book we looked at while we were in the archives. Teaching is a second or maybe even third career for me, and I have been teaching for over 20 years. I am a life long learner and I try to instill that sense of inquiry and wonder into my students. I teach at a small school and I was looking to connect with other teachers who teach similar subjects. I am also interested in learning more about the impact of eugenics as I had no idea of its effect on standardized testing and how eugenics still plays a part in our life.
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2/23/2023 20:42:11Shannon AndrosAndross@nfaschool.orgHigh school-vocab build to unpack eugenics
-intro video <5min for student to conceptualize how eugenics has been used (intelligence tests, birth control, forced sterilizations)
-jig saw activity. Students will travel to different stations in small groups and view pictures with inquiry based questions (got the idea from Tenzin). Students will discuss their answers and record their individual thoughts on a graphic organizer.
-group discussion to debrief
-exit ticket 		Perhaps helping me find appropriate documents for the jig saw.Grateful to be a part of this work study. High school social studies teacher at Norwich Free Academy. Currently on sabbatical to work on my dissertation (that is focused on the experience of social studies teachers implementing the new Black/LatinX/Puerto Rican Studies curriculum). I usually teach US history, women’s studies, genocide studies, and sociology. To be connected to content experts and to learn about the modern day iterations of eugenics practices.
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3/1/2023 8:39:51Liz Mancinimancinie@mpsct.orgHS, USH (10th grade)Honestly...not really sure. I think USH would be the best place for a lesson or unit- I was thinking maybe something around the progressive era. I'm currently finishing Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts and there are lots of connections I'm seeing but not really sure where to go with it. I think I need some help talking things out:)I've been a teacher at Middletown HS for almost 20 years and also serve as 6-12 dept chair. Maybe 10 years ago (!) I participated in a Facing History workshop around eugenics, race, and identity. The history was all new to me, and I frequently use the book they gave us to this day. When these working groups were published, my hope was to continue my learning around the way eugenics and that thinking has shaped aspects of US society and policy.
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3/1/2023 8:58:39Eden SteinEden.Stein@new-haven.k12.ct.usWorthington Hooker School, Grade 8, Eugenics - Propaganda and Bridge to the HolocaustI am developing a slide deck with links to videos and primary sources. Students will respond in writing and discussion, critically analyzing the sources and completing a piece of writing at the end of the unit. I would love to have someone look over the lessons when I have a draft completed and provide me with some feedback, and give me an idea about any other sources, particularly from New Haven, that I can include.I will not be able to attend on Thursday, March 9, via Zoom. I am hoping there will be a video of the class.I have been teaching English Language Arts and History in New Haven for 23 years, and have wrote units on the Holocaust and participated in many trainings but never included Eugenics. I received a grant and attended an Internal Seminar for Holocaust Educators at Yad Vashem. My students also participate in the National History Day program where they choose their own topics to research and present. I hoped to learn about the Eugenics movement In Connecticut, and the United States and how to teach it.
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Kaitlyn OberndorferHartford Academy Arts, History
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Michelle DunbarStamford, HS English/History
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2/23/2023 20:44:40Natalia Anne Grant20230805@nfaschool.orgNorwich Free Academy, 12th Grade, The Norwich State Hospital and its Hand in EugenicsI want to do a lesson on the History of the Norwich State Hospital, located in Preston, CT. With this lesson, I hope to put eugenics on an even more personal level, seeing as the Norwich State Hospital is only 3.7 miles away from campus. The people admitted there as well as in the Norwich location on Asylum Street all suffered tremendous pain and unfortunately, it's simply forgotten or not talked about in our school. Those people could have been our age when they were admitted, they could have had the same "difficulties", and most importantly, they were people too. I have a feeling that the majority of the information that I will need for this lesson will be located in the Norwich Town Hall however, if there's any information that can be found at Yale, it would be extraordinarily helpful. I am a senior at Norwich Free Academy that wants to major in education, likely secondary education, with a secondary major in History or Social Studies. My mom is a Polish immigrant and I take a lot of pride in my culture and learning as much history as possible from both Poland and the United States. When Mrs. Andros asked me to sign up for this program, I immediately knew that I would have so much to learn from this project, which really excited me. Overall, I hope to come out of this working group with more knowledge on how the past affects the present and the future and what steps can be taken in order to stop the cycle.
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3/1/2023 8:35:13Allison Norrieallisonnorrie@gmail.comWarde High School, grade 10Depends. One possibility is to have students investigate the organizations that benefitted from eugenics (i.e. Met Life Insurance, American Birth Control League, etc.) and investigate the white supremacist ideals imbedded in American institutions. Another possibility is to focus on the intersection of a specific movement along with eugenics; possibly suffrage. More access to Yale Libraries. Thank you!!!!!!Former curator and museum educator with almost ten years experience teaching social studies in CT public schools. Current President of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History and Project Associate & Coordinator for the Connecticut State Department of Education. A holistic approach to teaching American eugenics in the high school classroom.
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Tina RobertsEO Smith HS, US History
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3/7/2023 10:21:29David Pelaggidpelaggi@milforded.orgJonathan Law High School, 9-12, MusicHow Carl Seashore's work on Music Assessment affects how we perceive musical excellence today, especially in schools.I will reach out if I need assistance. I would love to get access to Carl Seashore's I appreciate all the help and resources y'all have given me. These tools will help a lot of students through policy and directly in practice in my classroom.I am a 28 year old Music teacher from New Haven County. I'm committed to educating in a way that is culturally responsive to my students and supports them as artists. I help students better themselves through the creative process.I was hoping for another opportunity to learn more about communities I'm not super familiar with. I teach in a very white district with little diversity in positions of power. I was hoping to receive more knowledge on how to make our district better about teaching from an anti-racist place.
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2/23/2023 21:01:52Tenzin Youdontennamary@gmail.comESUMS, 11th grade, the inherent racisms rooted in standardized testsWith my position in the club I plan to create a lesson about the inherent racism of standardized tests and how the creation of those tests stem from eugenic movement ideologies. I also want to bring in an interactive aspect of the lesson by making students answer some questions from a voting literacy test which will hopefully help them realize the connection between how the eugenics movement and standardized tests work to promote racism. I also want to make sure that this presentation is engaging by including a lot of photos and documents that will be points of discussion throughout the lesson. I was not able to attend the in person event so something I feel like I could use some help with is located documents and pictures that I could utilize in my lesson.My name is Tenzin Youdon and I am a junior at ESUMS that is passionate in educational justice and curriculum building. I am the founder and president of my school’s Students Organized Against Racism(S.O.A.R.) club and I plan to use my position to facilitate a lesson around the eugenics movement. I hoped to get a deeper understanding of the eugenics movement and its impacts that are still affecting people today. I also hoped to bring the knowledge that I took from the sessions and apply it to a lesson that I could build for the students at my school.
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2/23/2023 21:01:59Elias Theodoreelias.theodore@yale.eduWilbur Cross, 10-12, governor Wilbur Cross' connection to Eugenics/Eugenics in standardized testing (not completely sure yet)I have two ideas:
Teach a lesson on Governor Wilbur Cross' (1862-1948) involvement with eugenics. I learned from Michael Morand that Yale holds Wilbur Cross' archives, so I'd like to go through those and search for eugenics-related documents. We'd think about what it means that Cross has a school and major road named in his honor.
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Teach a lesson on the history of standardized testing, with an emphasis on the current SAT, an exam all juniors at my high school must take. We'd discuss our personal experiences taking the test and alternatives.		Elias Theodore is a senior at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven. He loves to run track, play baseball, and listen to music. He's interested in education and equity. During the past three summers, he's worked at Horizons at Foote, a summer enrichment program for New Haven Public School students in grades K-8. I signed up in the hopes of grappling with the history and legacy of eugenics in collaboration with other students and educators. Understanding New Haven and Yale's role in the movement and the ways in which eugenics ideas persist was important to me.
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2/24/2023 9:00:56Asia Clermont asia_clermont@whps.orgHall High School, grades 10-12, Black & Latino Studies I am thinking of having students analyze pictures and an intelligence test as part of my lesson. I want to give them background on the movement and its connection to CT. I think my final result will be students doing research in order to humanize the different groups that experienced eugenics (women, African Americas, Latinos, and members of the LGBTQ community) and creating a museum exhibit or time capsule. Examples of intelligence tests that were used during the Eugenics Movement. Also any primary sources that discuss specific groups during the Eugenics movement. I am a social studies teacher at Hall High School. I am currently in my eleventh year of teaching. I teach U.S. history, U.S. History through the African American Experience, and Black & Latino Studies. I want to learn more about Connecticut's role in the American eugenics movement. I also want practical strategies of how I can use material with students.
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3/1/2023 9:37:11Rayna Waltersrwalters@highvillecharter.com3I am doing an introduction to Eugenics with a delve into why the science was developed.I need addresses for offices for AES offices or spaces.. I need pictures of fit family abd baby contests. You all have been wonderful.I am a 3rd grade teacher at Highville Charter School. A graduate of UConn School of Law, teaching is my chosen second profession. I hoped to get more insight into eugenics. I also am interested in how the study manifests today.
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3/6/2023 17:33:51Christina Griffin christinaoliver77@gmail.comBooker T Washington Academy, Grade 3, Career Privilege I want to create a lesson plan that focuses on career privilege. There are jobs/careers that have been categorized for specific groups. I want to create a lesson that explores that mindset, how it originated, and how an anti racist perspective can allow my scholars to have the ambition to explore pathways, they would not, otherwise. Articles that focus on job placement. Articles that focus on the hierarchy of companies/businesses and how privilege affects job placement. N/aI have been teaching for 7 years. I grew up in New Haven and went to school here, as well. I have always wanted to serve the community that raised me. I constantly want to counter the negative stereotypes that have plagued the New Haven Education system. I was hoping that learning some of the history, especially around Yale, would help me understand some of the racist undertones I have experienced living here. Also, I wanted to the opportunity to create lesson plans that are culturally relevant and anti racist-which I believe are too different things.
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2/24/2023 12:07:53Elsa Holahanelsagrace361@gmail.comHillhouse High School, 11 & 12th grade, Black & Latine studies class (social studies/history)I'm hoping to create a lesson plan that goes hand in hand with the 'Black and Latino Studies' course that are taking place in all of Connecticut's high schools. Currently, eugenics is only mentioned once in the curriculum and there is only one article provided to support the study of eugenics. I hope to offer an introduction to the foundations and principles of eugenicist theory and practice, contemporary legacies of eugenics (especially in schools), but also offer the various forms of resistance efforts. I also hope to be able to make connections to the other units & lessons already in the 'Black and Latino Studies' course: race making, sterilization, and so on.If there are any articles/sources about resistance to eugenic ideology/practice I would love to be directed toward them!Should the lesson plan be complete by the public presentation or sometime before? Elsa Holahan (she/her) is a New Haven resident and a senior at Hillhouse High School. Elsa is interested and involved in community organizing and educational racial justice efforts in New Haven Public Schools and the broader New Haven community. Upon signing up for this working group I hoped to deepen my understanding of eugenics, especially on a hyperlocal scale (New Haven), and its ever-present legacies particularly in (public) schools. I also hoped to be empowered to share this knowledge of both the histories and legacies of eugenics in an accessible and collaborative capacity.
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3/5/2023 19:52:55Michelle Maitlandmem2010@att.netHolyoke Middle School, Grades 7 & 8, Eugenic Actions & Effects on The Puerto Rican Community Since the majority of my students are of Puerto Rican heritage, I think that it's important to make them aware of the part that Eugenics has played in their communities. This is true both on the mainland and on the island of Puerto Rico. And the best classes to incorporate this information is in our 7th and 8th grade Ethnics Studies courses. TBDWhen is this lesson plan due, again? For over 16 years, I have been in the field of education. My positions have primarily involved teaching English as a Second Language and Spanish. This has occurred in language schools and university-based language institutes, in which I've worked as an adjunct instructor. This experience has been obtained both here, in the U.S., and abroad. As I previously mentioned, I have had an interest in Eugenics for a long time. In addition, being a resident of CT, I wanted to learn more about the state which I call, "home."
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3/8/2023 19:48:14Tina Robertstinarobertsct@gmail.com
EO Smith High School, Grade 10, US History
I'm still working on this but I think I want to focus how eugenics ties to interracial marriage laws across the nation but also to Connecticut.
Not sure quite yet but I will be sure to reach out! No thanks!
This is my 10th year as a teacher teaching US History to sophomores at EO Smith High School in the Region 19 school district. Formerly I was a US History, Civics and Psychology teacher at ESUMS regional high school in New Haven. I am a mom of 2, grandmother of 4, bonus mom of 2 and, as of recently, a fiance of 1. :)
Over the course of my career I have worked in both an urban school and now in a suburban school. There is a palpable difference between the student bodies. I want to focus my craft into not only understanding the why but also how to bridge the distance between them.
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3/9/2023 9:48:58
Kaitlyn Oberndorfer/ Maddie Lewis
koberndorfer@crec.org ; korra526@gmail.com
Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. 11th/12th grade. World War II through the lens of American eugenics in mental healthcare. (United States History Course).

My student and I are working collaboratively to use this content to create a WWII unit for my current American History course through the lens of mid 20th century eugenics in American mental healthcare. The overall theme of this unit would task students with comparing eugenics ideology in the United States with developments in Nazi Germany within the same period of time. Ideally, this will allow students to assess whether or not the United States can claim its involvement in WWII as “the Good War” in American memory. Before introducing this eugenics content, students will first compare and contrast developments in nationalism, fascism, antisemitism, and exclusionary political action between the United States and Nazi Germany in the 20th century. After these preliminary comparisons, students will end this unit with a eugenics centric project centering on humanizing patients of the Connecticut State Hospital of the Insane from 1930-1950. More specifically, students will assess how institutionalization can be considered derivative of eugenics ideology and how institutionalization produces historical silences/ hides expressions of eugenics medicine from public view.
My student and I are open to receiving any input and resources on expressions of eugenics in mid 20th century mental healthcare in and beyond Connecticut.
Not at this juncture!
The following information includes both the bio of myself and my student working with me on the same project.

Kaitlyn Oberndorfer: I’m an American History teacher at CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. This course is offered at the 11th and 12th grade level and is my only prep- offering me a great deal of flexibility in implementing this content into my own curriculum.

Maddie Lewis: I am a student in my senior year at Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. I have always had a deep interest in history as an area of study and plan on majoring in the subject in college.
The following information includes information that pertains not only to myself but additionally my student working with me on the same project.

Kaitlyn Oberndorfer: I was excited to work with a diverse group of educators across the state on a subject and see how they can access this subject and implement it within their own curriculum. I additionally was excited to discover what resources and insights Yale could provide on this subject (either in identifying primary sources or current scholarship) to support my own classroom now and into the future. I have been very pleased with this program thus far!

Maddie Lewis: In signing up for this working group I hoped to find some sort of way to translate my passion for history into a tangible product, to work with an educator I admire, and to make my mark on some part of my school's curriculum that will hopefully remain long after I have graduated.
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3/9/2023 15:20:00Michelle Dunbarmdunbar@stamfordct.govHigh school english
Title: Hiding Behind the Mask: America's Involvement in the Holocaust: Yale's Involvement in the Holocaust: A Case Study in Institutional Complicity
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I am a teacher of English for over twenty years. I enjoy incorporating art/history and social emotional elements into my teaching.
I have a plethora of new information about eugenics. The information gleaned from this group will be used throught out the many books I cover, each an aspect of the human condition, marginalized characters and fairness.
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