Bring local narratives to your classroom with our new IE Stories lesson by Dr. Irene Sanchez on reimagining citrus crate labels! 🔎 Students will critically analyze vintage labels to uncover hidden histories of labor, and then design their own counter-narratives centering community pride. Link in Bio

This Black History Month, we’re launching a new professional learning opportunity for K–12 teachers: Local Landmarks, Hidden Stories: Paul R. Williams and the Architecture of Belonging. Learn about architect Paul R. Williams’s life & legacy while centering histories of race, place, and belonging.

This week’s resource spotlight: Freedom Was in Sight, a graphic history of Reconstruction in D.C.! Kate Masur & Liz Clarke use vivid illustrations & research to bring to life Black Americans’ fight for citizenship and equality after the Civil War. Resource: uncpress.org/978146968018...

Present day issues such as birthright citizenship, voting rights, equality, and racial justice all have deep roots in the Reconstruction era. As students grapple with questions about their rights and the future of democracy, understanding this history is more urgent than ever.

Check out the new resource for educators, Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the history of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. This powerful new website is an interactive multimedia resource that brings to life the history of U.S. immigration enforcement. Link: mappingdeportations.com

We are so excited that award-winning historian Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández will be giving a keynote talk at our upcoming professional development session for educators: Immigration Past and Present, Monday October 6th from 4:15-6:15pm on zoom. Register here: centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/event/immigr...

This Latine Heritage Month, we are thrilled to invite you to a special educator workshop: Immigration Past and Present, featuring a keynote talk by renowned historian Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández.

How do you help students understand history when history is happening all around them? Join fellow educators from across Los Angeles for this collaborative workshop designed to help you plan curriculum that bridges the classroom and the world.

Happy Pride Month from the UCLA History–Geography Project! We’re proud to announce the upcoming release of 10 new, empowering, intersectional LGBTQ+ history lessons for K–12 classrooms, launching June 26, 2025!

It has been a challenging month in our communities. But we have been so inspired by the way that folks all over the region have shown up for each other, acted in solidarity and exercised their first amendment rights in community with one another.

May’s almost over, but AAPI history belongs in our classrooms every month. As Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month comes to a close, we’re sharing a few powerful resources to help educators teach local AAPI history year-round. Explore them here: linktr.ee/uclahgp

As Financial Literacy Month winds down, check out our source set on the inquiry question: “How does the racial wealth gap affect overall economic inequality and social mobility in the United States?”

As Earth Day approaches, we invite teachers to check out this engaging lesson from our Lost LA curriculum: “Impacts of Building Los Angeles” by teacher Melissa Lizarraga.

Join us for the Themes in World History Professional Development Workshop on June 23-24, 2025, hosted by the UCLA HGP & the UCLA International Institute. We will delve into the theme of "Movements in Democracy", exploring historical and contemporary case studies from Myanmar and South Korea.

We are deeply moved by the resilience and strength shown by our teachers during and after the Eaton fire. To honor and amplify your experiences, we are launching a program in partnership with the Altadena Rebuild Coalition: Lessons in Resilience: Stories of Recovery after the Eaton Fire.

Celebrate Women’s History Month by teaching local women’s history! Today we’re sharing a lesson that introduces 4th grade students to the remarkable life of Bridget “Biddy” Mason, an African American entrepreneur and civil rights leader in 19th-century Los Angeles.

This summer we are collaborating with the Getty Research Institute to host a 3 day summer institute for K-12 teachers, centering oral histories of Black Los Angeles artists.

We are proud to announce that we will be presenting at the 64th Annual California Council for the Social Studies conference in Burlingame, CA this weekend! Come say hi! Our CCSS2025 Session info:

Black History Month may be ending- but we celebrate and teach local Black history all year round.

Celebrate Black History Month by teaching local Los Angeles Black History. Today we're sharing a lesson in which students learn about the history of South Central LA, a neighborhood in which African-Americans created vibrant and world-famous cultural spaces, in defiance of racist discrimination.

Today’s local history #BlackHistoryMonth lesson is about solidarity and the ways that African Americans and Asian Americans built solidarity in Los Angeles in the post-war period. This lesson accompanies the Lost LA episode “From Little Tokyo to Crenshaw”.

Celebrate #blackhistorymonth by teaching local Black history! Today we are sharing a 3rd grade lesson that accompanies the @KCET Lost LA Episode "Shindana Toy Company: Changing the American Doll Industry".

On the 87th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, we remember and mourn the victims and survivors. We honor their legacy by teaching this history truthfully and accurately.

Poet, author, educator and activist Nikki Giovanni has passed away this week. As educators, we can celebrate her life by exploring her work and her powerful legacy with students.

Check out this resource: Lessons 2 Go are inquiry-based, evidence-supported recommendations for lesson plans that help students understand what it happening in the world today.