Immerse yourself in the buildings, bridges, monuments, parks, and historic districts of New York City. Through walking tours, visits to architectural and engineering firms and construction sites, and hands-on exploration of Salvadori lesson plans, you will be engaged in projects that address math, science, literacy, technology, social studies, and fine arts. Salvadori educators will help you develop project-based lesson plans specific to your curriculum and your "landscape."

The “Turbo” Institute is a three-day exploration of the Salvadori Center's classroom-tested project-based pedagogy anchored in the built environment. Participants will develop hands-on/minds-on lesson plans specific to their curricula. Designed for educators in the metropolitan New York City area who can travel to the City College of New York campus.

This two-and-a-half day workshop will provide a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, collaborative work, and analysis of documents and works of art to introduce teachers to the holdings of the National Archives and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Workshop attendees will participate in and develop classroom activities that utilize both visual images and primary source documents as teaching tools in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. The content focus will be on Westward Expansion and the Civil War.

This practical, hands-on workshop for secondary-level educators will focus on strategies and approaches that help students with nonfiction reading in the social studies. Eight organizational patterns of text structure will be examined, including description, cause and effect, compare / contrast, problem/solution, concept definition, sequence, proposition / support, and goal / action / outcome. Participants will identify and find examples of each in social studies texts, acquire and apply reading strategies appropriate for each type of text structure, and determine ways of using strategies in both instruction and assessment. In addition, participants will acquire and apply other strategies that help students unlock social studies content in the secondary classroom, including vocabulary strategies, anticipation guides, summarizing, synthesizing and evaluating information, making inferences, and making predictions. Participants are asked to bring a grade-level text to use during the workshop.

Primarily Teaching is designed to provide access to the rich resources of the National Archives for educators at the upper elementary, secondary, and college levels. Participants will learn how to research the historical records, create classroom materials based on the records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, government, and the other humanities. Each participant will search the holdings of the National Archives for documents suitable for classroom use and develop strategies for using these documents in the classroom or design professional development activities to help classroom teachers use primary source documents effectively.

This workshop provides a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work that introduces teachers to the holdings and organization of the National Archives. Participants will learn how to do research in historical records, create classroom material from records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. Each participant selects and prepares to research a specific topic, searches the topic in the records of the National Archives, and develops a teaching unit that can be presented in his or her own classroom.

"An NCHE team of Marc Selverstone and John Pyne will explore the topic of The Cold War in Historical Perspective at this Teaching American History colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Sean Adams, Susan Dangel and Bruce Lesh will explore the topic of the Civil War and Reconstruction at this The Constitution in Historical Context: Teaching Exemplars of American Constitutional History -- Project Teach II colloquium."

"An NCHE team of Yohuru Williams, Tom Connors, and David Byrd will explore the topic of Postwar America: Civil Rights, the Sixties, and the Rise of Conservation at this Continuity and Change: America in the 20th Century colloquium."