A Teaching American History Grant A Teaching American History Grant Provided by the U.S. Department of Education Provided by the U.S. Department of Education Award #: U215X090089 Award #: U215X090089 www.historyconnected.org www.historyconnected.org Kara Gleason Kara Gleason Project Director Project Director
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A Teaching American History GrantA Teaching American History GrantProvided by the U.S. Department of EducationProvided by the U.S. Department of Education
Award #: U215X090089Award #: U215X090089
www.historyconnected.orgwww.historyconnected.org
Kara GleasonKara GleasonProject DirectorProject Director
The TAH Program
Senator Robert Byrd, (D) West Virginia Designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge and understanding of and appreciation for traditional U.S. history. Professional Development Opportunities:
School Day Seminars History Book Discussion Groups Summer Institutes Technology Workshops Sharing Conference
Grant Details
Three year grant from the U.S. Department of Education for $999,818
Intended audience: Middle and high school U.S. history teachers
Boston College Department of History Primary Source Tsongas Industrial History Center University of Massachusetts Lowell Graduate School
of Education
History Connected
History Connected draws connections across time and place to the enduring themes and issues of American history. Global connections between the United States and the world are an important feature of the program. So too are connections between ideas, individuals, documents, and events as they developed on the local, national, and international levels.
Yearly Themes
Year One: Equality, Citizenship, and the Law Year Two: War and Society: The Civil War to
Vietnam Year Three: American Encounters: The Movement
of People and Ideas
School Day Seminars
Held during the regular school day at Reading Memorial High School or at local historic sites
Interactive lectures with historians Classroom connections with lead teachers,
professors, and museum educators Resources may include: books, articles,
DVDs, images, and primary sources Advanced reading prior to each session Districts are reimbursed for substitute
coverage
School Day Seminars
November: Natural Rights and ConstitutionsDecember: The Right to Vote: Examining Political
Participation and Voting Rights in AmericaJanuary: Presenting History: Technological
Applications for Student PresentationsFebruary: The Growth of Slavery in the Nineteenth
Century and the Local ResponseMarch: Topics in Modern Immigration and Labor:
Comparing Old and NewApril: The Progressive Era: Reforms and ResultsMay: Examining the New Deal
History Book Discussion Study GroupsLed by Professor Bob Forrant, UMass Lowell Meet once a month from Dec – Apr in either
Lowell or Reading Read & discuss 5 books Classroom connections
resources and teaching ideas
are provided and discussed
Books are provided for all participants
A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution by Carol Berkin (Supplemented with articles by Alfred F. Young and Woody Holton)
Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson
On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation by Robert Whitaker
Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s by Ronald F. Formisano
Primary Source Summer Institute:Making Equality: Individuals, Social Movements and the Law
JULY 12 - 16, 2010 AT READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, ORIENTATION & FOLLOW UP DAY TBA
This Summer Institute will include topics such as: Equality, The Constitution, and the Courts Teaching the 14th Amendment Leadership and Participation in the Black Civil Rights
Movement Native Americans, Tribal Law, and the Federal Government Cesar Chavez, Immigrant Identity, and the Farmworkers'
Campaign for Equality
Site visit possibilities include the Boston Women's Heritage
Trail and the Schlesinger Library
Participation and Honoraria
Completer (Honorarium of $1,600)Attend and complete all required readings and work for
the following: Five out of seven of the School Day Seminars All five History Book Discussion Study Groups Primary Source Summer Institute and online
orientation Produce one required work product for the
School Day Seminars/History Book Discussion Study Group and one required work product for the Summer Institute
Attend the Annual Sharing Conference (October TBA, 2010)
Participation and Honoraria
Part-Time Participant (Honorarium of $800)Attend and complete all required readings and work for
the following:• Attend three out of seven of the School Day Seminars Choose One:• All five History Book Discussion Study Groups • OR• Primary Source Summer Institute and online
orientation (June orientation, July institute)• Produce one required work product for the School Day
Seminars/History Book Discussion Study Group or one required work product for the Summer Institute
• Attend the Annual Sharing Conference (October TBA, 2010)
PDPs and Graduate Credit
Three graduate credits for five school day seminars/History Book Discussion Study Group
Three graduate credits for Summer Institute PDPs also available
To Sign Up
Enroll online Registration form is available at:
www.historyconnected.org
www.historyconnected.blogspot.com Click here to access the registration form. Registration deadline: October 8th
For More Information
History Connected website: www.historyconnected.org and blog: www.historyconnected.blogspot.com