From the Minnesota Historical Society website:

"This workshop has been created due to the numerous requests we have received from teachers who want more practical information from their peers. It is designed for teachers who have completed the Ultimate Workshop and want practical advice about how to develop a successful HD classroom. Topics will include:

* Advanced Topic Selection
* Using HD in Interdisciplinary Instruction
* Motivating, Organization, Grading, and Rewarding Students
* Using HD in your Curriculum
* Using Outside Resources"

Those taking this workshop must have previously completed one of the Minnesota Historical Society's History Day 2010 Ultimate Workshops. The society offers two Ultimate Workshops, one on Nov. 3 and one on Dec. 7th.

From the National Council for the Social Studies website:

"Powerful and Authentic Social Studies (PASS) is a professional development program that trains social studies teachers in curriculum design, assessment, and instruction in a standards-based environment. This institute will provide participants with the materials and expertise necessary to lead their own PASS training workshops in their schools and school districts. Participants will learn about PASS criteria and standards for curriculum design, assessment construction, and effective instruction. In small learning communities, participants will examine videotaped K-12 vignettes of teaching and create examples of curriculum units and assessment tasks to share with their learning community.'"

From the Continuing Ed Options website:

"Not only will you experience a sample of the literature, music, art and dress, but you will be delighted with authentic dishes prepared by chefs from a number of diverse cultures. The cost for these ethnic meals in included in the tuition. We will meet in the Neighborhood House, a multi-cultural, multi-lingual community center, see Mexican Folk Dancers and experience an authentic Mexican dining experience. In New Prague we will be entertained by a group of senior folk singers and learn about the cultural history of the area. We will be treated to some traditional Czech food at the Town's Edge Restaurant. Participants will visit the American Swedish Institute, observing the elegant Turnblad mansion, its many pieces of furniture, painting and personal accessories and experience an authentic smorgasbord. We will also meet at the Minnesota Historical Society and learn about the many diverse societies that make our country so culturally rich."

From the Primary Source website:

"How can American art be used to deepen your students' understanding of democracy in American life? Bringing together educators from across the country in conjunction with the NEH Picturing America program, Democratic Vistas will show you new ways to incorporate important works of visual art in the core humanities curriculum. Day One of the institute explores democratic values and aesthetics as a theme in American art; Day Two highlights the "art of the people" - folk and traditional art, as an expression of American creativity. The course takes advantage of Boston's unique artistic and historical resources with a downtown walking tour of civic monuments, a museum field trip (Boston's Museum of Fine Arts) and presentations by leading scholars in the field.

Following the course, participants must complete a lesson plan or school project highlighting one of the works in the Picturing America collection."

From the Alabama History Education Initiative flyer:

"In the first year, [the Alabama Department of Archives and History] will assemble a committee of twenty master teachers from around the state to develop new curriculum packages. The committee members will receive travel and per diem at the rate set for reimbursement by the state of Alabama for its employees. Also, the committee members will receive a laptop computer upon completion of the project. The committee will meet June 22-26, 2009 at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery beginning with a day of immersive classes in Alabama history taught by leading scholars in the field. With data and cooperation from the State Department of Education, a university faculty consultant will lead a review of the State Course of Study, state testing requirements, and existing test performance data to identify the areas of greatest need. Key data sets will include scores from the 2008 administration of the Alabama High School Graduation Exam and student assessments developed as part of several Teaching American History (TAH) grants that are currently underway in the state.

The committee will then begin a collaborative process of designing approximately fifty curricular units based on primary sources identified by ADAH education and archival staff. Units will include reproductions of primary
sources, suggested instructional strategies, correlations to the Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies and National Standards for History, student-oriented learning activities, and assessment tools. Two university faculty
reviewers will evaluate the units, verify their correct alignment to standards, and make suggestions for improvement. Committee members will conduct trial implementations of the units in their own classrooms, noting
areas that merit revision during the second year of development.

The second year of the project will replicate the first, with a new class of twenty teachers receiving orientation and developing another fifty curriculum units. In addition, the first year’s committee members will begin providing multiple professional development sessions in each of the state’s in-service centers, a process that will put the committee-developed resources in the hands of as many as one thousand classroom teachers across the state. The university consultant, reviewers, and ADAH education staff will make site visits to classrooms in order to observe the use of the curricular materials and evaluate their effectiveness. University faculty will also begin incorporating the curricular materials in pre-teacher training. ADAH will post the curricular resources on its Web site and distribute them upon request on compact disc, making it possible for every history teacher in the state to reproduce the materials and implement them in the classroom."

From the Center for Digital Storytelling website:

"The three-day Educator Workshop is designed specifically for K-12 classroom teachers. First, each participant develops a digital story not more than 150 words in length. The creation of these shorter pieces provides hands on experience with the entire digital storytelling process, including a story circle, script writing and recording, and the production process, using digital technology.

As they finish their digital stories, participants move into the second component of the workshop in which they touch on implementation issues. Strategies for managing the creation of digital stories in the classrooms are presented, and opportunities for participants to practice their technology teaching skills are offered.

Each participant receives a DVD set of K-12 digital storytelling teaching resources, including software tutorial guides and diagrams to support the operation of commonly used digital storytelling hardware."

From the Center for Digital Storytelling website:

"The three-day Educator Workshop is designed specifically for K-12 classroom teachers. First, each participant develops a digital story not more than 150 words in length. The creation of these shorter pieces provides hands on experience with the entire digital storytelling process, including a story circle, script writing and recording, and the production process, using digital technology.

As they finish their digital stories, participants move into the second component of the workshop in which they touch on implementation issues. Strategies for managing the creation of digital stories in the classrooms are presented, and opportunities for participants to practice their technology teaching skills are offered.

Each participant receives a DVD set of K-12 digital storytelling teaching resources, including software tutorial guides and diagrams to support the operation of commonly used digital storytelling hardware."

From the Virginia Center for Digital History flyer:

"The Digital Storytelling Workshop for Educators is designed specifically for K-12 Classroom teachers. The workshop has two components. First, educators develop their own short digital story based on first-person personal narrative. We take participants through group story development, teach them the basics of image and video editing tools and assist them in completing their digital story. Teachers will then move into the second component of the workshop in which they will be introduced to strategies for managing the creation of digital stories in their classrooms and given the opportunity to practice their technology teaching skills."

This institute will examine several key roles of the presidency including chief executive, chief diplomat, manager of the economy, and national leader. It will first look back at President Kennedy's approach to these roles and then explore how President Obama is approaching them to meet today's challenges.