Essex LINCs

Description

Essex LINCs is a professional development program for Essex County's elementary school teachers. This series of American history workshops is aimed at helping educators teach local history within a national context. Participating teachers complete four monthly seminars and a one-week summer institute. ESSEX LINCs centers around four core themes in American history with direct correlation to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for elementary grades: Local History in National Context, Governing in America, Working in America, and Populating the United States. The program combines visits to local historical sites with historian-led content sessions. Hands-on training in how to use primary sources and sites from Essex County in the classroom will help educators meet Frameworks objectives while also enlivening their social studies curriculum.

Contact name
Bethany Jay
Sponsoring Organization
Essex LINCs
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Course Credit
PDPs (10 per day/40 total) for monthly sessions during the academic year; graduate credit (three credits from Salem State College) for the summer institute.
Contact Title
Project Director
Duration
Each cohort will meet for four full days (two Wednesdays and two Saturdays) during the spring or fall session from 9:00-3:00.

Arizona Tales Teacher Workshop: Using Literature to Teach Arizona History and Geography, K-8

Description

This workshop will go over 15 lesson plans covering the desert environment, Native American culture, Mexican culture, ranch life, World War II, and more. Supplementary literature books are included in the registration fee.

Contact name
Spargo-Guerrero, Emily
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Arizona Historical Society
Phone number
1 520-617-1153
Target Audience
K-8
Start Date
Cost
$60 ($50 for Arizona Historical Society members)
Course Credit
Provides Continuing Education Credits.
Duration
Four hours

National Council on Public History Annual Meeting

Description

The theme of this meeting is "Toward Broader Horizons."

Sponsoring Organization
National Council on Public History
Contact email
Location
Providence, RI
Phone number
317-274-2716
Start Date
End Date
Registration Deadline
Fax number
317-278-5230

American Studies Association Annual Meeting

Description

The theme of this meeting is "Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice." Sessions will include "Visions and Revisions: How to Build a High School American Studies Program," "Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom: Identities at the Crossroads," "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration," "Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching: Three Scholars Share Pedagogical Strategies," "The Future of American and Ethnic Studies," "Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual and Popular Culture in American Studies," and "Getting Great Advising: A Workshop for Graduate Students."

Sponsoring Organization
American Studies Association
Contact email
Location
Albuquerque, NM
Phone number
1 202-467-4783
Start Date
End Date
Fax number
1 202-467-4786

University of Wisconsin System Conference on History Education

Description

This conference's theme is "Historians and Educators: Building and Assessing Partnerships." The goal of the conference is to foster a conversation among historians and education faculty about teaching history to undergraduates. This second conference will extend that conversation to the teaching of history at all levels by including sessions on building historian and K–12 educator collaboration, assessing existing partnerships, preparing students for careers outside the K—12 classroom, and options for creating a history educators' consortium for professional development.

Sponsoring Organization
University of Wisconsin
Contact email
Location
Eau Claire, WI
Contact name
Chamberlain, Oscar (email, phone #)
Contact Title
Planning Committee Co-chair
Phone number
1 715-836-5275
Start Date

National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference

Description

The National Preservation Conference is the premier preservation conference in the United States for professionals in preservation and allied fields, dedicated volunteers, and serious supporters. It is the single best source for information, ideas, inspiration, and contacts.

Sponsoring Organization
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Contact email
Location
Tulsa, OK
Phone number
1 866-988-1188
Start Date
End Date
Registration Deadline

AHA and NHEC K-12 Teacher Workshop

Description

This workshop, organized by the American Historical Association and the National History Education Clearinghouse, will offer sessions including "Colonial Beginnings to Early Republic," "Teaching with Textbooks," "National History Education Clearinghouse Introduction," "FDR and ER: Using Documents to Tell Their Story," and "Many Movements: Teaching Black Freedom Struggles from WWII to the 1960s." A box lunch will be provided, accompanied by a talk, "Inverting Bloom's Taxonomy: What's Basic When Reading History?" by Sam Wineburg, Stanford University.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
American Historical Association; National History Education Clearinghouse
Phone number
202-544-2422
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Duration
Eight and a half hours

American Historical Association Annual Meeting

Description

The theme for this conference is Globalizing Historiography. The program includes over 200 sessions, encompassing the varied geographical, chronological, and topical interest of historians today, as well as a special series of sessions on teaching sponsored by the AHA and affiliated societies. A Teaching Workshop for the National History Education Clearinghouse will be held on Jan. 3. This workshop is specifically designed for K–12 teachers and will have a variety of speakers and presentations, as well as lunch provided. Workshop registration must be done in advance.

Sponsoring Organization
American Historical Association
Location
New York, NY
Start Date
End Date
Registration Deadline

Mission Mill Museum Teacher's Fair: Bringing History to Life

Description

Teachers are invited to enjoy finger foods as they learn about the numerous heritage sites in the area and what those sites have to offer to classes and field trips. Teachers will receive free passes to each of the represented heritage sites as well as classroom activities that relate to information at those sites.
Organizations represented include Champoeg State Park, Mission Mill Museum, Marion County Historical Society, Portland Art Museum, and various other heritage sites.

Sponsoring Organization
Mission Mill Museum
Target Audience
preK-12
Start Date
Duration
Two and a half hours