No More Back Seats: Alysha Butler, Award-Winning Educator

221 College Lane,Salem VA 24153

21 February, 2022

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National award-winning educator, Alysha Butler presents: "No More Backseats: Centering Black History in America's School Curriculum" Alysha Butler is a 22-year veteran social studies teacher for District of Columbia Public Schools. She was recognized as the 2019 History Teacher of the Year by the Daughters of the American Revolution for the District of Columbia and the 2019 Gilder Lehrman National History Teacher of the Year for her innovative lessons and civic based student projects. In 2019 she was a D.C. Community Cornerstone Awardee. In 2020 she was the first teacher to ever be appointed to the Gilder Lehrman Board of Trustees. Her most recent published essays include “Why My Students Were Not Surprised on January 6th” and “Avoiding the Trap of Whitewashing the Founding Era: Teaching Black Liberation during the American Revolution.” Her chapter “Giving Honor and Teaching History in Life and Death: Teaching History and Civic Duty with the Preservation of Black Cemeteries” in Teacher Professional Development at Historic Sites and Museums will be released in 2022 along with her most recent contributing chapter “Insurrection Nation” in Hot Button Topics: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content. This event is sponsored by the Roanoke College Education Department, Bridges, and The RC Center for Studying the Structures of Race. This is a free event, we welcome and encourage all to attend! This in-person event will require masks and seats will be distanced.