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Educational Resources

 
New social studies textbooks adopted under Proclamation 2015 arrive in Texas classrooms during the 2015-2016 school year. Since established in 2009, PEI worked successfully with state-level elected officials and educational professionals to promote accuracy about Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Jewish contributions to Western Civilization in these new textbooks and their supportive materials. PEI also promoted fairness and balance in materials. 
 

PEI’s on-site presence resulted in more than two-dozen changes to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards and contributed to hundreds of corrections and changes to the new textbooks. PEI continues to offer resources and guides for accurate, fair, balanced, and unbiased teaching about Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Jewish contributions to Western civilization. 

 

 

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The PEI GUIDES

 

The Public Education Initiative’s TEKS-aligned GUIDES offer educators accurate resources for teaching about Jews, Judaism, Israel, Jewish contributions to Western Civilization, and religious diversity. These GUIDES cite specific teaching standards and offer topic-specific resources developed by the Jewish educational scholars at the Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS).  Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read these documents.

 


Teaching Diversity | Download Teaching Diversity

Teaching Diversity: A K-12 Guide to Teaching about Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Public School Classroom. Aligned with Chapter 113. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies, beginning with school year 2011-2012. 

 

 

 

 

Teaching Diversity provides a comprehensive list of K-12 standards that reference Jews, Judaism, and Israel; religious and cultural diversity; and the impact of diverse groups on history, government, law, and geography. These standards are aligned with accurate resources that help teachers develop high quality lesson plans and curricula. The resources are free and may be accessed at the ICS website.  

 

 

 

De-Mystifying Religion for Classroom Teachers | Download
 

De-Mystifying Religion for Classroom Teachers: Teaching About Jews, Judaism, and Religious Diversity in the Texas Public School Classroom. Aligned with Chapter 113. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies, beginning with school year 2011-2012.

 

 

 

De-Mystifying Religion was originally developed for CSCOPE professionals writing curriculum for the Educational Service Centers throughout the State of Texas. This document selects specific TEKS that reference Jews, Judaism, and Israel as well as those that reference specific contributions by Jews and Judaism to culture, government, and law. It then provides specific content for those standards as well as suggestions for additional resources. 

 

 

Texas History Lesson Plan | Download the Lesson Plan | Download the Student Rubric | Download the Teacher Version of the Student Rubric

 

TEKS (19) Culture: Diversity Within Unity:The Texas Cultural Experience
Teaching How Different Immigrant Groups Have Impacted – and Been Impacted By – Texas Culture

 


 

TEK (c)(19) Culture requires students to explore the impact of diverse racial, ethnic, and religious groups on the Texas culture. It serves as an excellent “umbrella” for reinforcing multiple standards in other strands as multiple immigrant groups greatly impacted Texas culture. 

 

The lesson plan was developed collaboratively by Texas History curriculum writer Beth Hudson (Austin ISD), Dr. Bryan Stone, author of The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas; and PEI professionals. It utilizes standards in multiple strands, e.g., religious freedom; frontier expansion, cattle, oil, and railroad industries; and civil rights, to explore the impact made to and on Texas by multiple unique racial, ethnic, and religious immigrant groups, e.g., African-Americans, Czechs, Germans, French, Jews, and Vietnamese. Resources about the Jewish experience are provided as examples.

Supporting Resources

 
PEI works closely with The Institute for Curriculum Services to provide educators with accurate and challenging classroom materials, lesson plans, and resources to use when teaching about Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Jewish contributions to Western Civilization. ICS’s resources are free and can be downloaded at their website.