Teaching about the Holocaust: A Teacher Forum in the Phoenix Area

Description

From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website:

"The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in cooperation with Arizona State University, will present this forum, designed for secondary, pre-service, and community college educators. The forum will explore the content, methodologies, and rationales for teaching the history of the Holocaust; increases teachers' knowledge of the Holocaust; and examines contemporary issues associated with this history."

Contact name
Kimberly Klett
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Phone number
480-497-8097
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Cost
Free
Contact Title
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Regional Educator
Duration
Two days
End Date

Moving America Left and Right: 1945-1990

Description

From the National Humanities Center website:

"This seminar will approach American history after World War II as a history of social movements. The first session will explore the black freedom movement with an eye to new scholarly interpretations of a 'long civil rights movement' reaching back to the New Deal and beyond the 1970s and including the North and West as well as the South. The second session will examine the women's movement and the conservative movement for insight into the relationships among various movements. It will conclude with a discussion of how viewing the era from 1945 to 1990 as an era of social movements can bring new coherence to the recent past."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Humanities Center
Target Audience
North Carolina high school U.S. history and American literature educators
Start Date
Cost
Free; $100 stipend
Course Credit
"Each seminar may yield one CEU credit. Because the seminars are conducted online, they may qualify for technology credit in districts that award it. The Center will supply documentation of participation."
Duration
Six hours

Indiana Council for the Social Studies Distinguished Teacher Award

Description

From the Indiana Council for the Social Studies website:

"This honor will be given to two educators who have demonstrated exceptional teaching abilities in the field of social studies, elementary or secondary. Each honoree will be awarded a plaque, $100, and another Social Studies related prize."

Sponsoring Organization
Indiana Council for the Social Studies
Eligibility Requirements

"1.The nominee must be a full-time teacher in Indiana. The nominee must be a member of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies.
2. The nominee must submit the required forms and supporting documents postmarked by May 15.
3. The nominee must have a current teaching license and be teaching that licensure area
4. In 250 words or less, the nominee must submit a reflective statement about his/her teaching experience.
5. Letters of recommendation from colleagues, supervisors, parents, or students should be submitted with the nominee's application."

Application Deadline
Award Amount
$100
Location
IN

Jane Lowrie Bacon Teacher Grant

Description

From the Indiana Council for the Social Studies website:

"The Indiana Council for the Social Studies (ICSS) will fund one grant of $300 for use as seed money for teacher created or teacher developed classroom projects or research in the social studies."

Sponsoring Organization
Indiana Council for the Social Studies
Eligibility Requirements

"To be considered for the teacher grants, individuals must:
1. Be a member of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies
2. Be present at the ICSS convention to accept the award.
3. Provide tangible output to the ICSS Awards and Grants committee
within one year of receipt of the grant.
4. Complete the Teacher Grant Application form, and
5. Submit a brief letter of support form the applicant's supervisor,
principal, or department chairperson."

Application Deadline
Award Amount
$300
Location
IN

Lake Chelan Leadership Retreat

Description

From the website:

"The Annual WSCSS Lake Chelan Leadership Retreat will deepen your knowledge and broaden your outlook on social studies, in addition to providing you with a few lessons to teach on Monday morning. This three-day retreat held on lovely Lake Chelan is designed to help social studies educators."

Sponsoring Organization
Washington State Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
Location
Chelan, WA
Contact name
Jacobs, Kurt
Start Date
End Date

New Mapping Technology in the History-Geography Classroom

Description

From the California History-Social Science Project website:

"Dr. Janice Reiff of the UCLA History Department will introduce the Hypercities program and other mapping technologies to teachers at all levels."

Contact name
Miller, Mary
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
California History-Social Science Project
Phone number
310-825-7749
Target Audience
PreK-12
Start Date
Duration
Three and a half hours

We Are California Workshop

Description

From the California History-Social Science Project website:

"A new interactive online exhibit from the California Council for the Humanities (CCH) – We Are California – will explore the history and stories of those who have immigrated or migrated to California. A new partnership between the Council and the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) will help to bring this exciting resource to the classroom.

The topics of the workshops will be 'The Sikhs of Yuba City' and 'Sam Brannan and the Mormon Settlements of California.' Both presentations will include classroom ready materials aligned with the California History-Social Science Standards."

Contact name
Renteria, Rosemary
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
California History-Social Science Project
Phone number
530-752-0572
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
$35
Duration
Four hours

Teacher Workshop: Mapping Our History

Description

This PhilaPlace project workshop will suggest approaches for developing local history mapping lessons and discuss ways to incorporate immigration and oral history into such projects.

Contact name
Wilson, Kate
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Phone number
215-732-6200
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Course Credit
Attendance at workshops qualifies for 2 hours toward Act 48.
Contact Title
Director of Education and Interpretation
Duration
Two hours

Celebrations of the Constitution: How the Principles and Ideas Influence and Engage Citizens

Description

All participants in this Montpelier-sponsored program will receive a free set of We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution textbooks; a lecture by Constitutional Scholar Stephen Frantzich and a signed copy of his book; lesson demonstrations by teachers at the elementary, middle, and high school levels; Representative Democracy of America free resources and training (DVDs and books); elementary, middle, and high school resources for the teaching of Constitution Day; and Project Citizen sessions for middle and high school teachers with free textbooks.

The workshop is open to teachers in Northern Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Prince George County, Maryland.

Sponsoring Organization
Center for Civic Education
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Seven and a half hours

Weekend Seminar: Citizenship

Description

Montpelier Weekend Seminars are a unique professional development opportunity for social studies teachers and other civic educators. Participants in a Montpelier Weekend Seminar will live and study on the grounds of James Madison's Montpelier, one of the central sites of the American constitutional founding. Participants will receive a collection of primary documents in advance of the seminar, specific to the content of each program, which will be the basis of most discussions. These include writings by James Madison, sections of the Federalist Papers, selections from Antifederalist writers, and other fundamental documents. Each seminar includes an intensive session on ways of reading a document of political or constitutional theory, and will conclude with the lecture "American Citizenship as Constitutional Citizenship: The Exemplar of James Madison."

Teachers will also become acquainted with the curriculum We the People: the Citizen and the Constitution, which is widely used across the nation and is compatible with state and national standards. All participants will receive a complete classroom set of the We the People textbooks, appropriate to the grade level they teach. A classroom set includes 30 student texts and one teacher's guide.

This particular seminar will explore citizenship and questions that include the following: What does it mean to be a citizen of a constitutionally founded nation? Among its other innovations, American constitutionalism has redefined the concept of citizenship and political community—how does the Constitution help us define what it means to be an American? How has our understanding of what is a citizen of the American constitutional order evolved (or devolved)?

Sponsoring Organization
Montpelier
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free for educators who work in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia.
Course Credit
Participants will receive documentation of the Seminar's contact hours to qualify them for professional development from their local school system, according to their own school policies.
Duration
Four days
End Date