# Archived Information

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# Abstracts of Funded Projects 

#  Teaching American History Grant Program

CFDA 84.215X

(Updated September 20, 2002)

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# Teaching American History Improvement Collaborative Project

**Southeast Island School District**

**Thorne Bay, AK**

**Project Director: Dorothy Arensman**

**(907) 828-8254**

# Funding: \$597,135

This project will serve teachers and students in Southeast Island School
District as well as Sitka School District. None of the faculty from
either district who teach American history is certified in history or
social studies. In partnership with the National Council for History
Education, the National Park Service, and Portland State University, the
districts will implement activities including a cohesive,
multi-component program for professional development in American history
content, instruction, and standards-based assessment for teachers within
the districts, and extend those benefits to faculty in other Alaska
school districts through participation incentives and distance learning.

Learning America's Story Through Interesting New Genres (LASTING)

**Calhoun County Board of Education**

**Anniston, AL**

**Project Director: Veronica Carr**

**(256) 236-7641**

**Funding: \$523,977**

# This project partners Calhoun County System with Jacksonville State University, the Anniston Museum of Natural History and the Berman Museum of World History. Eighteen teachers of American history will be chosen to participate in ongoing professional development activities for 124 contact hours during each project year. Activities include workshops during the school year, summer institutes, the development of teaching materials and strategies (including some that are web based), and using technology to access information and original documents. Participants will also have opportunities to travel together on guided seminars to places of historical interest and significance. The participants will coach and mentor peers and present workshops at the university's In-Service Education Center, professional conferences, and their own schools. 

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# American History: Capture the Excitement

**Phoenix Union High School District**

**Phoenix, AZ**

**Project Director: Mike Babb**

**(602) 764-1343**

**Funding: \$675,127**

# This district serves 22,000 high school students in Phoenix, Arizona. It partners with Arizona State University, the Heard Museum, the Arizona Humanities Council, the Arizona State Archives, the Arizona Historical Society, and the Phoenix Museum of History. The project works with five teacher teams to achieve: improved student achievement; enhanced content knowledge and instructional techniques, adherence to state history standards, and the use of technology-based classroom techniques.

# Baldwin Park Unified School District 

# Baldwin Park, CA

**Project Director: Lynne Kennedy**

**(626) 962-3311**

**Funding: \$783,786**

The LEA works in partnership with Azusa Pacific University, the
Historical

Society of Southern California and the National Council for History
Education to

serve 138 local school teachers in grades 5,8,11, and 12. Features of
the

project include a series of spring and summer colloquia on various
historical

topics and themes and the development of specific lesson plans and
history

classes based on the learning that arises from these sessions. Academic

historians will lead the sessions; learning specialists and master
teachers

will work with teachers to help them integrate the topics and themes
into

creative classroom presentations that engage student interest.

**Los Angeles County Office of Education**

**Downey, CA**

**Project Director: Thomas Gibbons**

**(562) 922-6331**

**Funding: \$999,000**

This county office of education works with 5 other southern California
county education offices and partners with National History Day, the
Organization of American Historians, University of California-Los
Angeles, Colonial Williamsburg, the National Council for History
Education, and the California Professional Development Committee. Three
cohorts of 32 teachers, each in teams of two representing all the
counties involved, will concentrate on 17th and 18th Century U.S.
history in Year 1; 19th Century History in Year 2, and 20th Century
History in Year 3. They will work with 65 primary source-based teaching
units. The teacher fellows will research historical subjects, help train
other teachers, and develop classroom lessons.

**Glendale Unified School District**

**Glendale, CA**

**Project Director: Mary McKee**

**(818) 241-3111**

**Funding: \$1,000,000**

This Southern California district plans to involve more than 25 high
school and middle school instructional staff in an intensive series of
professional development programs. Their partner is the Glendale
Community College. There will be a heavy involvement with coaches and
mentor teaches in order to help the teachers apply the state standards
to the classroom and to increase content knowledge and awareness.

**Long Beach Unified School District**

**Long Beach, CA**

**Project Director: Linda Mehlbrech**

**(562) 426-6288**

**Funding: \$804,666**

This large urban district plans to use a teacher-of-teachers model in
which 45 fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade teachers are taught to be
teacher trainers. They in turn will help carry out on-site and summer
institute professional development with an additional 385 teachers in
the same grades. The emphasis is on content training, with a secondary
emphasis on instructional delivery. The partners in this project are the
California

# State University Long Beach and the Long Beach Community College.

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# The Los Angeles American History Institute

# Los Angeles Unified School District 

# Los Angeles, CA 

**Project Director: Ruben Zepeda**

**(661) 285-8065**

**Funding: \$1,000,000**

The project will establish 14 institutes on the theme of American
History and the Evolving Constitution and serves 400 teachers in grades
5, 8, and 11. Priority will be given to teachers who teach in
under-performing schools. The objectives are to: improve the new
teachers' knowledge base and systemic instructional practices; provide
teachers with instructional strategies; expose teachers to museums and
library resources; and use technology and web-based learning to build a
community of learners. The partners include the University of California
at Los Angeles, the California State University at Los Angeles, the
Henry Huntington Library, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, the
National Archives and Records Administration, and the Richard Nixon
Presidential Library.

**Montebello Unified School District**

**Montebello, CA**

**Project Director: Janet Torncello**

**(323) 887-7900**

**Funding: \$805,295**

This southern California district is will provide professional
development to 90 of the 120 history teachers in the district. They will
partner with Occidental College, the Constitutional Rights Foundation,
the Autry Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of History, and the Huntington
Library. The teachers will learn how to gauge their students\'

work as indicators of the success of the content and teaching
strategies. The teachers will get hands-on curricular presentation
training that will better equip them to reach and engage their students.
The teachers will work on research projects and learn methods to
stimulate high-quality research efforts from their students that will be
directed toward participation in National History Day.

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# DeTocqueville's Ghost: Examining the History of American Democracy

# Oakland Unified School District 

# Oakland CA

**Project Director: Stanley Pesick**

**(510) 879-8497**

**Funding: \$999,238**

The school district is partnering with the University of
California-Berkeley\'s history faculty and Bancroft Library. The
district will send 90 5^th^ and 11^th^ grade teachers to workshops,
conferences and summer institutes to improve content knowledge and
classroom practice. State standards will be applied to the school-based
instructional program during the training sessions. There will be lesson
study sessions and teams of teacher-as-researchers undertaking special
projects, which will impact the level of the instructional program.

Enhancing Student Performance in American History Through Increased
Teacher Expertise: A Model for Jefferson County Schools

**Jefferson County Public Schools**

**Golden, CO**

**Project Director: Brian Loney**

**(303) 982-6987**

# Funding: \$864,977

Jefferson County Schools, in partnership with the National Center for
History Education, University of Colorado and the Center of the American
West, Social Science Education Consortium, and the Colorado Historical
Society will focus on activities designed to foster collaboration,
continual content learning, and improvement in instructional practice.
Project activities include history colloquia; summer institutes;
follow-up training (one-day seminars, technology workshops, study
groups, critical friends groups); cognitive coaching, and Annenberg
Institute Protocol training. Approximately 360 teachers at the
elementary and secondary levels will participate in professional
development activities during the 3-year project period.

**Bridgeport Public Schools**

**Bridgeport, CT**

**Project Director: Teresa Carroll**

**(203) 576-7126**

**Funding: \$724,024**

The district and its partners\--University of Bridgeport, the Barnum
Museum, and the Bridgeport Public Library\-- plan to establish a History
Roundtable as a device to delivering professional development to
teachers throughout the district. The district will also use the History
Alive model to help the teachers engage the active participation of the
students in the exploration and learning of history content.

**The School Board of Broward County**

**Ft. Lauderdale, FL**

**Project Director: Mark Quintana**

> **Quintana_Mark@bcpsgw.broward.k12.fl.us**

**(954) 765-6366**

# Funding: \$999,326

Broward County, the 5^th^ largest school district in America, with a
diverse population including speakers of 58 languages from 164 different
countries, will target its Teaching American History program on teachers
and students in the district's lowest-performing schools. Professional
development activities include two-week summer institutes and 10
Saturday workshops, in addition to other workshops during the school
year, covering content immersion, curriculum development, and a
mentoring/coaching program. In addition to professional development
activities, the district proposes to publish a revised American history
curriculum guide and an American history assessment instrument for use
in all secondary schools. The district will partner with Nova
Southeastern University, local museums and historical societies,
Colonial Williamsburg, the National Council for History Education, and
the Florida Humanities Council.

# Bringing the Past to Life

**Hillsborough County Public Schools**

**Tampa, FL**

**Project Director: Daryl Saunders**

**(813) 272-4880**

**Funding: \$999,734**

This project proposes to develop a high quality staff development model
for 120 elementary and middle school teachers that will guide a
sustained effort in U.S. History curriculum development efforts and
pedagogical skill development for the elementary and middle school
grades. The project design is based on six components: Content,
Interdisciplinary, Pedagogy, Putting it All Together, Assessment, and
Coaching. The district's partners include the Annenberg Foundation,
Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute, the Tampa Bay History Center,
History Alive Teacher's Curriculum Institute, The Education Channel, and
the University of South Florida. An estimated 25,000 students will
benefit from the work of the project.

History Enhanced through Active Learning (HEAL Initiative)

**The DeKalb County School System**

**Decatur, GA**

**Project Director: Ben Ridgeway**

**(404) 297-7471**

**Funding: \$538,835**

DeKalb County School System, located in metropolitan Atlanta, serving
approximately 97,000 students (over 50% receive free or reduced
lunches), will use project funds to implement a comprehensive
development plan that will build a cadre of master American history
teachers who will then train and mentor other teachers throughout the
district. Training components include a series of American history
content courses, training in research-based best practices and
innovative strategies and mentoring/instructional coaching training. The
district's project partners include the National Council for History
Education, the Southern Regional Council, the National Archives, and the
Carter Presidential Center.

**Bringing History Home**

**Washington Community School District**

**Washington, IA**

**Project Director: Elise Fillpot**

**(319) 653-5467**

**Funding: \$701,133**

Bringing History Home is a professional and curriculum development
project for kindergarten through sixth grades in the Washington
Community School District (WCSD) of rural Iowa. Bringing History Home
seeks to connect children with the concept and excitement of historical
inquiry. In partnership with the University of Iowa and the Herbert
Hoover Library, the project proposes to develop a state of the art K-6
history curriculum, adapt lesson plans to include the contributions of
disadvantaged and minority groups to American History, provide
professional development activities to 29 WCSD elementary teachers with
an emphasis on source-based research and teaching methods, as well as
implement and evaluate the curriculum developed through the efforts of
the project.

**Learning our Past, Securing our Future: An Enduring Partnership in
Excellence**

**West Central Four Regional Office of Education**

**Macomb, IL**

**Project Director: Laurie Assell**

**(217) 277-2092**

# Funding: \$608,286

# West Central Four Regional Office of Education, in partnership with five other regional offices and Western Illinois University, proposes to implement high quality, long range, enduring professional development activities for American History pre-service and veteran high school teachers throughout fifteen counties. Project components include in-service opportunities, summer institutes, and technology workshops that together will build an on-going collaboration between teachers and experts to improve instruction in American History. 

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# Professional Development School Network for Learning and Teaching American History 

# Lincoln-Way High School District #210 

# New Lenox, IL

# Project Director: Michael Gardner

**(815) 646-4000**

# Funding: \$956,576

The Lincoln-Way High School District in New Lenox, Illinois proposes to
partner with faculty members from the Department of History and History
and Social Sciences Education Program at Illinois State University, and
McLean County Museum of History, in addition to newly hired American
history teachers across the State of Illinois. The Network brings
together American history teachers from eight Illinois high schools, and
at the end of each year of the three-year project, nearly 300 teachers
will have attended colloquia and an institute. During each of the three
years, the program offers six all-day professional development
colloquia, a one-week summer institute, and seven additional
free-standing institute days throughout the year, all focused on the
teaching and learning of American History.

# A Model Collaboration: Rethinking American History

# Community Unit School District 60 

# Waukegan, IL

**Project Director: Linda Meczyk**

**(847) 336-3100**

# Funding: \$921,966

Community School District in Waukegan, Illinois, proposes a three-year
professional development program for middle and high school American
history teachers. The district will partner with Lake Forest College,
Lake Forest, Illinois, as well as The Chicago Historical Society, Loyola
University Chicago and Northwestern University. At least eight different
school districts in Lake County, Illinois, will participate in the
program. In all, a total of 40 teachers are expected to participate. The
project will include two summer institutes, two one-day symposia,
continuous small Saturday workshops, and regular class visits. The
project aims to raise student achievement by improving teachers'
knowledge and teaching strategies and by developing a cohesive model of
professional development for grade six through twelve teachers of
American history.

**Project Mine**

**Unified School District #499**

**Galena, KS**

**Project Director: James Christman**

**(620) 783-4499**

**Funding: \$633,327**

The Project Mine Consortium is comprised of a unique network of five
rural local education agencies, Southeast Kansas Education Service
Center-Greenbush, Pittsburg State University, and the Big Brutus Museum.
Project Mine proposes to establish a results-based model of professional
development; create a multidisciplinary network of teachers, historians,
and community members; train teachers to effectively integrate
technology; and instill a commitment of teachers and students to
preserve local, regional, and national history. By actively involving
students in the learning process through the use of project-based
learning strategies, hand-held computer technology, Internet, and local
archival data that connect the story of coal mining with the social,
cultural, political, and environmental fabric of American history,
teachers will integrate powerful instructional strategies into history
instruction.

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# Louisiana Purchase: Louisiana Pedagogy Utilizing Resources for Challenging History and Achieving Student Excellence

# East Baton Rouge Parish School Board

# Baton Rouge, LA

**Project Director: Phyllis Heroy**

**(225) 226-7610**

# Funding: \$993,595

Through this project, East Baton Rouge will contract with Louisiana
State University (LSU) to provide summer institutes to train additional
American history teachers in the use of document-rich, active methods
for engaging students in history. Faculty from LSU, Southern University,
and Tulane University will serve as summer institute faculty. The
project will also provide support for teaching consultants who will
build upon the work of the summer institutes. Teacher consultants will
attend in-service staff development workshops and local regional and
national conferences to obtain additional training on reaching out to
their peers. In addition to LSU, the district is also partnering with
the Historic New Orleans Collection, The Louisiana State Museum, and the
Louisiana State Archives, and the Digital Library housed at LSU.

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# Calcasieu Parish School System

**Lake Charles, LA**

**Project Director: Charlotte Gallemore**

**(337) 491-1669**

# Funding: \$618,762

Calcasieu Parish School System, a high-poverty urban parish located in
Southwest Louisiana, is partnering with Louisiana State University's
Middleton Library, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation, the National D-Day Museum, the Civil War
Institute at Gettysburg College, Region V Technology Center, and Active
Learning Systems. Summer institutes and workshops will provide teachers
with increased knowledge of American history subject matter. Teachers
will also learn how students learn and how to make history ideas
accessible so they can construct "teachable moments."

# Assumption Parish Schools 

# Napoleonville, LA

**Project Director: Malcolm Duplantis**

**(985) 369-7251**

# Funding: \$842,644

This project partners four high-poverty school districts---Assumption,
Lafourche, St. James and Terrebonne---with Nicholls State University to
undertake systematic reform in American history that will provide new
and veteran teachers with history content, methodology, and lasting
resources through technology, an American History Network, and products
of effective teaching that will serve as a model for the nation. The
delivery model for this program is based on the Louisiana Systemic
Initiative Program (LaSIP), a successful, ten-year systemic content
delivery model funded by the National Science Foundation.

**Boston Public Schools**

**Boston, MA**

**Project Director: Deborah Washington**

**(617) 635-9687**

**Funding: \$999,187**

The Boston school district plans to provide all 326 of its U.S. history
teachers with an appropriate and content-filled professional development
program. There will be seminars, summer institutes, learning strategy
sessions, and study groups of both middle school and high school
teachers. The partners are the University of Massachusetts-Boston, the
City of Boston Archives and Records, the John F. Kennedy Library and
Museum and the American Antiquarian Society. The goals are to teach U.S.
history as a separate and discrete subject, to apply state standards to
the classroom, and to combine history content with learning strategies.

**Mohawk Trail Rural School District**

**Shelburne Falls, MA**

**Project Director: Barbara Mathews**

**(413) 774-7476**

**Funding: \$999,239**

The rural district in western Massachusetts works with a consortium of
six nearby districts. The partners are the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial
Association and the Franklin County Collaborative for Professional
Development. 225 teachers, teacher trainers, and district coordinators
will participate in seminars on major American history topics, as well
as in small group training at school sites. They will examine and
analyze primary documents and will integrate these documents and other
historical materials into their classroom instruction.

**Montgomery County Public Schools**

**Rockville, MD**

**Project Director: Martin Creel**

**(301) 279-3357**

**Funding: \$997,920**

This suburban district will provide professional development for 160
fourth and fifth grade teachers in two cohorts. The goal is to establish
an ongoing Corps of Historical Discovery to help teachers discover and
analyze documents, prepare and present improved lesson plans, and to
help increase student performance on the statewide U.S. history
assessment. The partner in this project is Montgomery College.

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# Baltimore County Public Schools 

# Towson, MD

**Project Director: Rex Shepard**

**(410) 887-4017**

**Funding: \$997,354**

This project will provide Baltimore County's teachers with graduate
level experiences in American history, models of effective history
instruction, structured feedback and support, resources, and
opportunities for peer coaching and review. The district will recruit
participant teachers primarily from low performing elementary, middle,
and high schools. Partners include the History Department at the
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Maryland Public Television, the
National Council for History Education, the Maryland Council for History
Education, and regional historical institutions.

**A Bridge for American History**

**Minneapolis Public Schools**

**Minneapolis, MN**

**Project Director: Dana Carmichael-Tanaka**

**(612) 668-5337**

**Funding: \$999,598**

The district, in alliance with St. Paul Public Schools, will work in
partnership with the education and history faculties at the University
of Minnesota, the Minnesota Historical Society, and National History
Day. The project will work with three cohorts of 80 elementary and
secondary teachers\-- half from each district. A series of summer and
school year sessions will be conducted to provide teachers with content
learning, pedagogical advancement, and peer coaching. The aims will be
to integrate state standards with authentic pedagogy; to achieve a
deeper commitment to classroom content and learning strategies; to
create a systemic coherence in teaching methods through the integration
of instructional perspectives; and to ensure the creation and
continuance of an ongoing history collaborative learning community.

# American History Education Enhancement Program

# School District of Springfield R-12 

# Springfield, MO

**Project Director: Judy Gregg**

**(417) 895-2736**

# Funding: \$854,917

The School District of Springfield R-12 in Springfield, Missouri will
partner with Southwest Missouri State University to construct a graduate
program for middle and high school teachers. The goal of the project is
to improve middle and high school student achievement in American
History. In addition to five core courses, summer institutes will take
the place of research seminars. The district proposes to enroll 30
social studies teachers in a graduate program that will provide training
over the three-year grant period in American History, offering the
courses via the Internet

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# Changing the Shape of the Nation: The Louisiana Purchase, the American West, and National Identity

# Ritenour School District

# St. Louis, MO

# Project Director: Dr. Paul W Doerrer

#  (314) 493-6010

# Funding: \$911, 531

This project brings together a consortium of districts in the St. Louis

area, with Ritenour as the lead district. The activities of the

consortium will be facilitated by Cooperating School Districts of

Greater St. Louis, a non-profit organization. The project will focus on

three historical themes in order to upgrade the teaching of U.S.

history: the Louisiana Purchase, the American West, and National

Identity. The partners on the project include the University of

Missouri-St. Louis, National Council for History Education. Some of

the strategies to be used are: researching historical themes and

authentic pedagogy; encountering and discussing new scholarship;

building teacher networks; and preparing future history teachers. The

project will make use of summer institutes, colloquia, reading seminars,

lectures, conferences, and electronic networking.

# Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools 

# Charlotte, NC

**Project Director: Becky Finger**

**(704) 343-2774**

**Funding: \$994,525**

Charlotte-Mecklenburg's project is designed to improve instruction in
American history and address the needs of students at risk of
educational failure. The project will target 5^th^, 8^th^, and 11^th^
grade American history teachers. Activities for the program include
summer institutes that combine the strategies of the History Alive
program; quarterly meetings with partners to ensure ongoing
collaboration; and the training of teacher mentors who will coach and
work directly with classroom teachers throughout the program. The
district's partners include the University of North Carolina-Charlotte,
the Museum of the New South, and several heritage organizations such as
the Afro-American Cultural Center, Historic Latta Plantation, and
Charlotte History Museum.

# Nebraska Partnership for American History Education

# Educational Service Unit 7 

# Columbus, NE

# Project Director: Susan Wunder

**(402) 472-3346**

# Funding: \$931,935

Educational Service Unit 7, in rural Columbus, Nebraska, is proposing a
partnership that will provide a professional development program to
improve the knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American
History of secondary teachers in Nebraska. The public school district is
working in partnership with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center
for Curriculum and Instruction, and School at the Center, a University
of Nebraska-Lincoln Teachers College statewide rural organization.
Secondary schools in 31 of Nebraska's 93 counties will take part in this
grant. Approximately 40 American History teachers at the middle or high
school level will participate in the project activities. Major
activities include three annual events for the three-year grant period:
a spring workshop, a summer institute, and a fall workshop to improve
teaching effectiveness.

**History in Perspective: Teaching American History**

**Somersworth School District**

**Somersworth NH**

**Project Director: Judith Moyer**

**(603) 862-3538**

# Funding: \$645,987 

The district, in collaboration with nine other small districts, will
work with the University of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Historical
Society, and the New Hampshire Department of Education. Project staff
will work with 57 teachers from 17 schools in the districts that have
been used as cluster sites for the University\'s teacher preparation
program. Activities include two-day separate seminars for the fall and
spring and two-week summer institutes. These sessions will include
presentations by professional historians, the reading and analyzing of
primary and secondary sources, the exploration of additional web-based
sources, and the uses of media. Project staff will help the teachers
translate these lessons into effective classroom learning strategies.

# The Faces of Freedom: Teaching American History Through Personal Narrative

**West Morris Regional High School District**

**Chester, NJ**

**Project Director: Anthony di Battista**

**(908) 879-6404**

**Funding: \$553,785**

This school district will collaborate with two nearby districts and
partner with Princeton University, the Smithsonian Museum of American
History, the IBM Learning Village, and the National Council for History
Education. The project will provide professional development to 180 high
school teachers in 3 cohorts of 60 each. Different groups will visit
various historical sites and receive training there as well. University
teachers will provide the content, while mentor teachers will help
devise and carry out customized

learning strategies to put the content across to the students. The
objective will be to integrate the new content learning into the core
curriculum.

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# Washoe County School District 

# Reno, NV

# Project Director: James Barclay

**(775) 348-0332**

**Funding: \$893,932**

Through this project Washoe County, the second largest district in
Nevada, will provide professional development activities to teachers in
Washoe as well as the surrounding six rural counties. The major
objectives of the project are to help teachers acquire content mastery
of American history topics; retrieve and use primary source materials in
lessons; acquire teaching skills necessary to implement their knowledge
of American history; establish and maintain a supportive professional
network.. Partners include the University of Nevada, Reno, the Nevada
State Library and Archives, and the Nevada Humanities Committee

**Teaching American History: A Model for University-Secondary School
Cooperation**

**Broome-Tioga BOCES**

**Binghamton, NY**

**Project Director: Kimberly Schuth**

**(607) 763-3633**

**Funding:\$814,171**

This Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) plans to serve
100 teachers in 15 school districts in its south central New York
region; concentrating on teachers

from 4 districts who have the highest percentage of at-risk students.
The State

University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton and the Southern Tier
Teacher

Center Network are the district\'s partners. The SUNY history and
education faculties are working jointly on this project along with
school and district-based curriculum specialists. The content knowledge
will be provided primarily in summer sessions, and the teaching
strategies will come from afternoon sessions throughout the school year.

# Gateway to the City: Using New York City's Resources to Teach American History

**New York City Board of Education, Office of Multicultural Education**

**Brooklyn, NY**

**Project Director: Evelyn Kalibala**

**(718) 935-3984**

**Funding: \$955,584**

This project will provide elementary and secondary level American
history teachers ongoing, intensive in-service support to further
develop their understanding of effective strategies to improve teaching
methodology and student achievement. The project also seeks to enhance
teachers' expertise regarding the impact of industrialization on the
growth of the United States, and particularly New York City. Through the
topic of industrialization, project staff will exemplify best practices
in content analysis and curriculum development for any period in
American history. Educators will also engage in collaborative teaching
by providing mentoring to new cohorts of teachers entering the program.
Project partners include Hofstra University, the Brooklyn Historical
Society, and local cultural institutions.

**Monroe Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES)**

**Fairport, NY**

**Project Director: Ellen Santora**

**(716) 275-5053**

**Funding: \$921,207**

The Monroe BOCES will provide professional development to 120 teachers
in 10 districts within the BOCES region. The University of Rochester,
the Susan B. Anthony House, the George Eastman House of Photography, and
the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Historical Park are the partners. The
University\'s history and education faculties are working alongside
master teachers. Together they will put forth a solid content core and a
series of methods to help teachers put this content core into practice
in a way that will engage the interest of the students. The teachers
from each district will work in teams in order to help each other make
progress in these areas.

# Teacher As Historian

# Community School District #30 

# Jackson Heights, NY

**Project Director: Gus Hatzidimitriou**

**(718)777-4646**

# Funding: \$998,400 

This district in Queens, New York, will prepare 90 mentor teachers in
three-person teams to help them enhance the professional development of
300 fifth and eighth grade history teachers. The partners are the
National Council for History Education, St. John's University, and
WYNE-FM and the Library of America. The teachers will participate in
curricula development, dissemination and mentorship focusing on
improving their knowledge skills appreciation and understanding of
American History. Project activities include Summer Academy sessions,
classroom mentoring, hands-on technology use, research, lesson plan
development, and the utilization of radio program recordings and other
forms of technology.

**Enlivening American History Through Primary Sources**

**Office of the Superintendent for Alternative, Adult and Continuing
Education,**

**Long Island City, NY**

**Project Director: Maria Giacone**

**(718) 752-7300**

**Funding: \$996,933**

This urban district in league with its partners, Queens College and the
New York Historical Society, will offer intensive professional
development to history teachers at 67 high schools. There will be annual
two-week summer institutes that include history presentations,
discussion of teaching strategies, and teachers working in small groups
on two-week curriculum projects involving primary source material.
Project coordinators will ensure that teachers translate the lessons of
the institutes into classroom practice.

# History, First Hand

**Community School District #1**

**New York, NY**

**Project Director: Janet Chasin**

**(212) 602-9779**

**Funding: \$872,850**

This southern Manhattan school district will provide intensive
professional development to 120 third through eighth grade teachers and
an annual professional development

conference for 600 other teachers. Its partners are Bank Street College,
City Lore,

and the Gotham Center for New York City History. The program includes
four semester

courses, a student-teacher history conference, a mentorship program for
history

teachers who develop into mentors themselves, a 4-day history-technology
course, a

conference for 600 teachers, and a teacher-friendly publication with
teacher-generated project ideas, lesson plans, and curriculum models.

# Fellowship in American History

# Community School District #4 

# New York, NY

**Project Director: Hilda Sanchez**

**(212) 828-3566**

**Funding: \$498,306.**

This northeastern Manhattan school district will use a research-based
professional development model combining knowledge, resources,
methodology and collegiality to train seventh and eighth grade teachers.
Groups of experienced and new teachers will attend lectures and methods
workshops and work together with project staff to enhance the content
knowledge and teaching skills of all participants. They will devise
tests and rubrics to measure student performance in history and they
will help revise and strengthen the district's history curriculum. The
partners are Hunter College and the Museum of the City of New York.

# Mansfield City School District 

# Mansfield, OH

**Project Director: Evelyn Altherr**

**(419) 525-6430**

# Funding: \$890,440

The project proposed by Mansfield City School District proposes to
partner with Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University in
Ashland, Ohio, on a professional development program for junior high and
high school American history teachers. The project proposes to help
history teachers gain a deeper understanding of American history and
improve student achievement by assisting teachers in enhancing teaching
strategies. Approximately 35 teachers are expected to attend these
sessions.

Three aspects of the project include: three one-week summer institutes a
year, four one-day seminars each year, and a web site to accompany the
institutes and seminars.

**History Matters: Telling America's Story from Different Perspectives**

**Coalgate Public Schools**

**Coalgate, OK**

**Project Director: Allen Hicks**

\(580\) 927-4022

Funding: \$386,762

History Matters is a project of the Coalgate Public School District in
partnership with the National Council for History Education, the Foxfire
Fund, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, the Okalahoma Technical
Assistance Center, the Choctaw Nation, the Coalgate Library, and the
local Coal Miners Museum. The project targets more than 700 students in
the economically depressed center of the Indian Nations Empowerment Zone
of southeastern Oklahoma. The project aims to improve instruction and
raise achievement among students of American history through a five-
part professional development plan for the District's American history
teachers. Professional development plan components include a system of
summer colloquia, pre-service and in-service training for teachers,
support for teachers as scholars, sustained on-going collaboration among
partners, community and service partners, and mentorship with university
faculty.

# 

# Lane Education Service District

# Eugene, OR

**Project Director: Robert Young**

**(541) 461-8280**

# Funding: \$798,089

The Lane Education Service District, in collaboration with the Oregon
State History Society, Oregon Department of Education, Portland State
University, Oregon High Desert Museum, the University of Oregon Center
for Advanced Technology in Education, and Lane County historical museums
and historical sites will (1) develop and deliver a program of
professional development in teaching American history to 80 K-12
teachers who will then support 320 of their colleagues; (2) build a
sustainable network that will provide continuing history education and
professional development for teachers throughout the state of Oregon.
Practicing professional historians will provide the teachers with
content instruction, demonstrations in best practices, instruction in
using primary source materials and objects in classrooms, and
instruction in using and integrating educational technology.

**Immigration and Migration in American History:**

**Exploring American History Through the Philadelphia Experience**

**School District of Philadelphia**

**Philadelphia, PA**

**Project Director: Catherine Balsley**

**(215) 299-7797**

**Funding: \$999,480**

The Philadelphia school district will partner with Temple University,
the Atwater

Kent Museum and International Historical Park to conduct a professional
development

project for teachers in 8th, 11th, and 12th grades. One goal of the
project is to increase the content knowledge of the U.S. history field
among the teachers. Another goal is to increase the capacity to present
this content knowledge in the classroom to better engage the students\'
interest in the subject. The relationship between local and national
history will be a major focus. Among the facets of this program are:
symposia series,

summer institutes, classroom visitations, and teacher networking.

# Teaching History By Using Primary Resources 

**School District of Pittsburgh**

**Pittsburgh, PA**

**Project Director: Raymond McClain, Ph.D.**

**(412) 338-8012**

**Funding: \$457,395**

This grant will serve 8th and 11th grade teachers. These teachers will
gain: knowledge of the importance and analysis of primary resource
documents; the uses of technology in document analysis; strategies to
use these documents in the classroom; the generating of

high-quality lesson plans; and methods to carry out exemplary research
projects. Spring and summer seminars will reach these objectives. The
partners in this grant are Carnegie-Mellon University, Chatham College,
and the Pittsburgh Teachers Institute.

# 

# Explore History Teachers Academy

**Ridgway Area School District,**

**Ridgway, PA**

**Project Director: Robert Weible**

**(717) 783-9867**

**Funding: \$620,965**

This northwestern Pennsylvania school district will partner with the
Pennsylvania Historical Association, the Pennsylvania History and Museum
Committee, and the WTIF Public Television Network. They will provide
professional development to two cohorts of 15 teachers each who will in
turn provide in-service courses to 400 teachers. The professional
development will consist of both history content and strategies for
teaching history.

# 

# Promoting United States History-PUSH

**Capital Area Intermediate Unit**

**Summerdale, PA**

**Project Director: James Warnock**

**(717) 732-8400**

**Funding: \$940,358**

The Capital Area Intermediate Unit in south central Pennsylvania is part
of a consortium of 24 local school districts. The partners include
Shippensburg State University,

Cumberland County Historical Society, the National Civil War Museum, and
the PBS

Workshops in American History. More than 150 secondary school teachers
will be trained. There will be intensive professional workshop
development seminars and Exploratory, Guided Teacher Adventures. As part
of these sessions, teachers will be guided to begin a concentrated
teaching improvement module that involves field-testing the new content
and presentation methods in high school classes.

Teaching American History in South Carolina: A Statewide Approach to
Teacher Professional Development

**Richland School District Two**

**Columbia, SC**

**Project Director: Joel Walker**

**(803) 896-6212**

**Funding: \$953,361**

# Richland School District is the lead district on this project involving a consortium of districts encompassing three regions of South Carolina. This project provides professional development for American history teachers within these three regions through the establishment of a three-year series of summer institutes taught by historians. The main goal of the project is to help teachers develop innovative teaching techniques through the use of local primary sources and to connect national history to local and regional events, people and places. A second goal is to create regional networks of teachers who will serve as mentors to other teachers. Partners include the University of South Carolina Public History Program, the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, South Carolina State Museum, and South Carolina State Parks system.

# 

# Pine Ridge School

# Pine Ridge, SD

**Project Director: Cynthia Johnson**

**(605) 867-5877**

**Funding: \$520,313**

The grantee is a Bureau of Indian Affairs school district on the Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. The partners are
the Oglala Lakota College, the Chadron State College, the Oglala
Archives, the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, and the National
Indian Education Association. The main aim is to effectively teach the
state standards on U.S. history in all classrooms and to separate U.S.
history from the existing social studies curriculum. Thirty teachers
from the district and 30 others from 12 other reservation schools will
participate in the three-year intensive training program. Distance
learning will be employed at the Oglala Lakota College\'s regional
centers and a five-day workshop will be held annually.

# Houston Partnership for Teaching Excellence in American History

**Houston Independent School District**

**Houston, TX**

**Project Director: Ada Cooper**

**(713) 892-6818**

**Funding: \$786,025**

Houston Independent School District proposes to create staff development
opportunities for new and experienced U.S. history teachers, primarily
those at the middle school and high school levels. Teachers will learn
deeper history content and a large number of instructional techniques.
The project will encourage networking and sharing among teachers. The
district's partners (Rice University, University of Houston, and
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) will help to create learning
environments for teachers that leave them far stronger in both history
content and classroom practice. These newly trained teachers will assist
students in meeting state history standards as measured on the statewide
assessment test.

Teaching American History Project: A Collaborative to Enhance the
Teaching and Learning of American History

**Region IV Education Service Center**

**Houston, TX**

**Project Director: Debra Williams**

**(713) 744-6507**

**Funding: \$988,290**

The Region IV Education Service Center serves 7 counties and 54 school
districts in southeast Texas. The project aims to: improve teachers'
knowledge of history content, identify effective teaching strategies;
train teachers to use technology, create a corps of teacher-mentors,
create a forum for teacher interaction with professional historians and
museum professionals, and produce online resources. The project will
serve teachers from elementary, middle school, and high school levels
will be served, with priority given to teachers from schools that scored
poorly on the statewide assessment tests in history. The partners are
the University of Houston and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

# Excellence by Design

**San Antonio Independent School District**

**San Antonio, TX**

**Project Director: Amy Baker**

**(210) 354-3439**

**Funding: \$999,691**

This school district encompasses much of downtown San Antonio. The
district partners include the University of Texas-San Antonio, KLRN-TV,
the National Council for History Education, the Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation, and School Vision. The project will work with 5th, 8th, and
high school U.S. history teachers to help prepare their students to
achieve success on the statewide test in U. S. History. A total of 245
teachers will participate in both summer and academic year sessions,
which will stress content knowledge, but will also discuss viable ways
to teach this knowledge in a way that will incorporate students\'
interests.

# Southern Utah History Partnership (SUHP)

**Iron County School District**

**Cedar City, UT**

**Project Director: Richard Anderson**

**(435) 586-2804**

**Funding: \$700,623**

SUHP, a consortium of 10 rural school districts, will establish and
maintain a history teaching collaborative that links 30 rural and
relatively isolated history teachers with each other; with history,
education, and technology faculty from Southern Utah University; and
with nationally-recognized experts in history and history education. The
SUHP will draw upon general guidelines established by the National Board
of Professional Teaching Standards and the American Historical
Association and more specific guidance from the National Council for
History Education. Teachers will participate in biannual weekend
workshops and two-week residential summer seminars on the university's
campus, and they will engage in peer coaching through site visits and
electronic communication.

# Bridgerland PATHS

**Logan City School District**

**Logan, UT**

**Project Director: Richard Jensen**

**(435) 755-2300**

# Funding: \$999,954

Logan City School District and Cache Valley School District, located in
a high mountain valley in Cache County, Utah, have partnered with Utah
State University and the American West Heritage Center (a non-profit
history organization) to create a teachers academy entitled Bridgerland
PATHS (Professional Academy for the Teaching of History in Schools).
Through weeklong summer academies and four one-day workshops offered
throughout the school year, local and national experts will provide
training designed to increase teachers' knowledge of Utah and American
history and update, expand and diversify pedagogical methods utilized
for teaching history. An online listserv with threaded discussion
strands will allow teachers convenient access to a variety of
professional historians and expert history teachers.

# 

# Living History Institute for Teachers

**Educational Service District 101**

**Spokane, WA**

**Project Director: Helen Paroff**

**(509) 789-3539**

# Funding: \$529,641

# Educational Service District 101 (ESD 101), with assistance from School District 81, will partner with Eastern Washington University to provide an immersion in local, regional, and national history to 8^th^ and 9^th^ grade history teachers in both the rural and urban areas of economically distressed Eastern Washington. Content rich classes will include living history field trips, primary source research, problem solving and active learning to both excite teachers and prepare them to provide quality instruction in the classroom. The project will develop a partnership between rural and urban schools to help these schools improved American History education.

**Wisconsin Collaborative U.S. History Professional Development
Program**

**School District of La Crosse**

**La Crosse, WI**

**Project Director: Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted**

**(608) 785-8159**

**Funding: \$902,083**

The district is partnering with the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse,
intermediate service unit CESA-12, and the National Council for History
Education to train 20 middle and high school teachers. History faculty
members from many universities will present a series of historical
themes during the school year and in summer sessions. Curriculum
specialists and professional development experts will lead a range of
sessions and mentoring activities.

#  

# History Teaching Alliance Professional Development Program

# Wausau School District 

# Wausau, WI

**Project Director: Roger Rindo**

**(715) 261-2538**

**Funding: \$784,370**

This central Wisconsin district plans to provide professional
development to 90 teachers in two cohorts. The partners are the
University of Wisconsin-Marathon County; the

Hmong Mutual Association, and the Marathon County Historical Society.
The effort will be to integrate an intensive content presentation with
learning strategies. These learning strategies will enable teachers to
more effectively meet state standards and to put forth a deep and
interesting history program that will succeed in engaging students\'
interest and energies.

# The Living Constitution: Teaching Exemplars of American Constitutional History (Project TEACH)

# Regional Education Service Agency (RESA) III 

# Dunbar, WV

# Project Director: Linda Andresen

**(304) 766-7655**

# Funding: \$949,921

Project TEACH is a comprehensive program designed to strengthen the
ability of history teachers (grades 5-12) in RESA III and surrounding
counties to improve students' knowledge and understanding of the
underlying principles, concepts, and continuing relevance of the United
States Constitution. Project components include the development of 120
Teacher Leaders who will serve as resources to their schools and school
districts, and the development of a model program that can be replicated
throughout West Virginia and the United States. Project partners include
the University of Charleston, West Virginia State College, Marshall
University Graduate College, West Virginia Cultural and History Center,
the West Virginia Humanities Council, RESA III Humanities Consortium,
the Kanawha County Schools Cultural Diversity Cadre, and the National
Council for History Education.