The Freedom Archives in San Francisco chronicles the history of progressive movements from the 1960s to the 1990s. During my 2016 internship at the archives, one of my projects was to revise and edit a curriculum drawn from the Resistance to Forced Sterilization collection.
At the time I became involved, materials for the curriculum were already chosen, and the lessons had been written. My task was to apply an educator’s lens to the working draft.
While the curriculum as written was already strong, I found opportunities to reorder the lessons so that both the content and the skills built upon each other in a meaningful progression. I also offered recommendations regarding the instructions provided for teachers in implementing the lessons, finding some that could leave more details to the individual teacher’s discretion and others that could provide more specific guidance.
The final curriculum is published on the Freedom Archives’ site: http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC46_scans/46.SterilizationCurriculum.Nov2016.pdf