Professional Learning Workshops

Discover innovative ways to introduce students to the topics of immigration, migration and refugees throughout U.S. history. In our virtual and in-person workshops for teacher professional learning, explore this history with expert historians to enrich your cultural understanding, as our team of educators demonstrate strategies that will enrich your classroom practice.

In-person professional learning workshops can include tours of our historic tenements at 97 and 103 Orchard Street and of our Lower East Side neighborhood, a continuing gateway for new immigrants, migrants, and refugees to the United States. Virtual workshops offer teachers from greater distances opportunities to engage with historians and educators on New York history, and weave threads to their own area.

Each workshop teaches techniques to incorporate primary sources, multiple perspectives, and narratives into your curriculum, as well as methods of exploring contemporary issues through the lens of history. As is true of all Museum educational programs, these workshops align with the goals of national and New York State learning standards.

Upcoming Workshops

Virtual Professional Learning Workshop
Black Tenement Communities in the Mid-1800s
Wednesday, October 16 | 6:30PM ET

Where did Black New Yorkers live in the 1860s? After Seneca Village and before Harlem, there was the 8th Ward. Led by Marquis Taylor, Lead Exhibit Researcher, Join us for a special teacher workshop about our newest exhibit, A Union of Hope: 1869, featuring the stories of Joseph and Rachel Moore, exploring innovative ways to introduce students to immigration and migration history and its intersection with Black history.


In-Person Professional Learning Workshop
Immigration, Civil Rights, and What it Means to be an American, Part II
Tuesday, November 5 | 7:45AM – 3:30PM

This Election Day, join us for the second installment in our “Immigration, Civil Rights, and What it Means to be an American” teacher workshop series with the National Park Service at Ellis Island!

The 1 day program will include a scholarly panel, a presentation by NPS Rangers on Ellis Island, a visit to the Board of Special Inquiry, and an educational program at the Tenement Museum.

Past Workshops

The Tenement Museum’s professional learning workshops for teachers are made possible, in part, through a generous grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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