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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

The seminar also includes a visit to a local historical site. Meals, materials, double-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are covered 100%. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. See a sample itinerary here.

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Applications open March 10th for Fall Multi Day Seminars!

Teaching American History

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, NY. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Anthony & Reform at Susan B. Have more questions?

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Making the Most of Distance Learning: 7 Tips to Share with Parents

Digital Promise

Easily access real-world learning materials like video tutorials, primary and secondary sources for research projects, museum collections, historical sites, and digital books, available online and often for free. Reading materials can include print or digital books, graphic novels, magazines, and online articles.

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Applications Open Soon for Spring Multi Day Seminars

Teaching American History

Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX.

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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Students of History

For example, I will have students read an online article and complete an interactive notebook graphic organizer based on what they read. For example, you could take your students on a field trip to a local museum or historic site, or have them participate in a role-playing activity to learn about a particular historical event.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

Next she handed out VR headsets and asked her students to grab their cellphones and head to her Google classroom, where posted three different experiences that showcase Afrofuturism: an Afrofuturism art museum, a short VR film and a musical performance.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 Event Highlights

Zinn Education Project

and the Phillips County Retired Teachers Association at the Eliza Miller Junior and Senior High School Historic Site, named for educator and philanthropist Eliza Ann Ross Miller. The Teach Truth pop-up with banned books will remain on display in the library/museum. Hosted on June 7 by the West Side Community Hub, Inc.