**Archived Information**

**TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY 2003 GRANTS**

**Program Abstracts**

### Alabama

**Grantee: Hale County Board of Education, Greensboro, AL**

**Project Name: Teaching American History: A Media-Supported
Professional Development Model**

**Project Director: Susan Patterson (205) 348-6432**

**Funding: \$784,659**

**Number of Teachers Served: 50**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The project features intensive training for 10^th^ and 11^th^ grade
teachers, through a series of summer institutes and an online
distance-learning component. The project integrates a 26-part video
telecourse, A Biography of America, with an 8-hour video and web series
of teacher workshops, Primary Sources. The program is presented in two
one-year parts, the first year focusing on the period before 1900 (New
World encounters, English settlement, growth and empire, independence,
government, westward expansion, slavery, the Civil War, and
Reconstruction), and the second on the period after 1900 (industrial
supremacy, the new city, the West, capital and labor, Theodore Roosevelt
and Woodrow Wilson, the 1920s, FDR and the Depression, World War II, the
1950s, the 1960s, and contemporary history). Partners are the WGBH
Educational Foundation, and the University of Alabama.

**Grantee: Tuscaloosa City Board of Education, Tuscaloosa, AL**

**Project Name: Southern History as U.S. History: From Civil War to
Civil Rights and Beyond**

**Project Director: Jolene Stanford (205) 348-1407**

**Funding: \$826,472**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 6,000**

This project serves teachers of American history in grades 5, 6, 10, and
11. Activities include a 2-week summer history institute and in-service
workshops whose context is American history from the Civil War to Civil
Rights, spotlighting Alabama and the southern United States. Topics
focus on significant ideas and issues, individuals, events, places and
milestones, or turning points. Partners include the University of
Alabama Department of History and College of Education, Alabama Museum
of Natural History, Gorgas House, and the Westervelt Warner Museum of
Young America.

### Arizona

**Grantee: Creighton School District No. 14, Phoenix, AZ**

**Project Name: Teaching American History Grant**

**Project Director: Pamela Burkhardt (602) 381-6000 and Cathy Poplin**

**Funding: \$991,395**

**Number of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 8,536**

The purpose of this project is to determine the most effective means to
provide ongoing and intensive professional development to teachers of
American history in grades 5, 7, and 8. All teachers have access to
content and strategy instruction. Only one group (4 identified campuses)
receives additional coaching and mentoring. Activities include
strategies that make learning for English language learners more
comprehensible. Content provides study of the following: for grade 5,
Early American Colonization and the Development of the 13 Colonies, and
Western Expansion; grades 5 and 7, American Revolution and the
Declaration of Independence; grade 7, the Civil War and Reconstruction;
grade 8, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Elections and
Voting. Project partners are: The Smithsonian Center for Education and
Museum Studies, Teachers Curriculum Institute, Pioneer Living History
Village, Freedom's Foundation at Valley Forge, and Kids Voting of
Arizona.

**Grantee: Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools Consortium,
Phoenix, AZ**

**Project Name: Intensive American History Training and Professional
Development**

**Project Director: Dr. Allison Cioffi (602) 506-1239**

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

**Number of Teachers Served: 60**

**Number of School Districts Served: 12**

**Number of Students Served: 2,879**

This project offers professional development in American history for
teachers of grades 5, 7, and 11. The graduate-level seminar involves
flying a cohort of teachers to the East Coast, putting them on a bus
with a prominent historian, and taking them on an intensive 10-day tour
of historic sites such as: Lowell Mills, Plymouth Plantation, Boston
sites, Old Sturbridge Village, FDR Library in Hyde Park, NY, West Point,
Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the Tenement Museum, Hudson Museum,
the White House, the Capitol, the Smithsonian, and the Supreme Court.
Partners are the Phoenix Museum of History, the Heard Museum, the
Historic Sahuaro Ranch Museum, and Anodyne Professional Development
Systems. After the teachers return from the East Coast, experts from the
partner institutions spend one week on local history, specifically
prehistory through the 1400s, the Wild West, the early 1900s, and modern
Arizona. Technology training offers intensive training in computer
literacy and internet skills. Throughout the year, a mentoring program
will re-enforce learning.

#### California

**Grantee: Barstow Unified School District, Barstow, CA**

**Project Name: Desert Area Teaching American History Institute**

**Project Director: Phyllis Trosper (760) 255-6021**

**Funding: \$352,326**

**Number of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with California State University San Bernardino, the
Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute, the Four Directions Institute,
the Center for Civic Education, and the Black Voice Foundation Footsteps
to Freedom Program, this institute provides 25 teachers each year with
American history content and interactive teaching strategies. This
year-round endeavor offers 9 days of formal training in the spring,
summer, and fall with monthly follow-up sessions to build a professional
network. Year 1 focuses on the 17^th^ and 18^th^ century topics from the
theme "The Meeting of Three Worlds" for grade 5 and 8 teachers. Year 2
focuses on 18^th^ and 19^th^ century topics on the theme "America's
Struggle to Be Both Free and Equal" for grade 5 and 8 teachers. Year 3
focuses on late 19^th^ and 20^th^ century topics on the theme of
"Fulfilling Democracy's Promise" for grade 8 and 11 teachers. The
website for the project maintains active discussion boards (to
compensate for the difficulty of holding physical meetings in this
remote, desert area) and provides problem-based lessons. In the winter,
a one-day convocation celebrates history and builds momentum for the
project

**Grantee: Compton Unified School District, Compton, CA**

**Project Name: Sources of the American Past: Key Figures and Turning
Points in United States History**

**Project Director: Memri Tagle (310) 639-4321**

**Funding: \$967,996**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 45**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Focus of this professional development program will be maintained on key
figures and turning points with special emphasis on use of primary
sources to instill the notion that history teachers and students need to
think like historians. Partners include the California History Project
at California State University Long Beach and Dominquez Hills and
Southern California Library. Of participants in grades 5, 8 and 11
engaging in summer institutes, conferences and workshops, and receiving
coaching/mentoring, 12 are designated teacher leaders responsible for
sustaining assistance to history teachers. Advanced Placement teachers
are targeted for special attention. A 3-day retreat will take place in
summer 2005 to review progress and plan future activities. Summer
institutes cover: Industrialism and Social Reform, Spanish American
War/American Expansionism, Agrarian Reform, Progressivism, World War I,
Great Depression, Cold War, Civil Rights, Vietnam War, Expansion of
Supreme Court Powers, Rise of Sectionalism, Slavery, First Great
Awakening, French and Indian Wars, U.S. Constitution, American
Revolution.

**Grantee: Del Norte County Unified School District, Crescent City, CA**

**Project Name: Teaching American History in Del Norte County Unified
School District**

**Project Director: Francis Lynch (707) 464-0200**

**Funding: \$923,322**

**Number of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This professional development plan includes a one-week summer institute
and five 4-hour Saturday workshops each year that discuss using primary
documents, oral histories, and museum instruction. Content includes
local history (e.g., the wreck of the *Brother Jonathan*), contemporary
Indian tribes, and the Great Depression. Partnerships include the
Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory, the Del
Norte County Historical Society, and the Del Norte County Museum.

**Grantee: East Side Union High School District, San Jose, CA**

**Project Name: Fostering Expertise in the Teaching of American History:
A Collaboration between Local Educational Agencies in San Jose, CA and
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA**

**Project Director: Catherine Giammona (408) 347-5210**

**Funding: \$662,181**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 300**

**Number of School Districts Served: 4**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This collaboration provides in-service teachers in grades 4, 5, 8, and
11 and pre-service teachers planning to teach American History at the
middle or high school level with opportunities to enhance history
instruction in under-performing schools, to nurture mentoring and
collaboration among historians and educators, to make effective use of
technology resources, and to develop instructional units through two
week-long summer institutes. It also provides release time for class
observations, and collaborative professional development experiences.
Content covers origin and development of the Constitution, territorial
expansion, development of the national economy, and the people who
created the American Republic. Within the context of state and national
standards, summer institute programs address historiography and context,
and discovery, analysis and interpretation of primary historical
documents.

**Grantee: El Monte Union High School District, El Monte, CA**

**Project Name: Structures for Knowledge: Understanding and Teaching
U.S. History**

**Project Director: Nick Salerno (626) 444-9005**

**Funding: \$777,240**

**Number of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with the National Center for History in the Schools and
UCLA's School Management Program, this project offers professional
development to 30 11^th^ grade U.S. history teachers and 60 5^th^ and
8^th^ grade teachers through summer institutes in 20 half-day sessions
over 4 weeks. The institutes culminate in a weeklong trip to explore the
resources of such institutions as the Library of Congress, the
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the National Archives,
and Colonial Williamsburg. During the school year, teachers visit
Southern California regional museums, such as the J. Paul Getty Museum,
Henry Huntington Library and Scott Gallery of American Art, and the
National Museum of Japanese American History. Content for the summer
institutes is: year 1, 11^th^ grade---America's Century (e.g., the
Constitution, World War I and II, civil rights, Vietnam); year 2, 8^th^
grade---U.S. History from the Revolution to 1900 (e.g., American
Revolution and the Constitution Civil War, immigration); year 3, 5^th^
grade---Early American History (e.g., American Revolution, the
Constitution, religious toleration, the colonies).

**Grantee: Elk Grove Unified School District, Elk Grove, CA**

**Project Name: Elk Grove American History Instructional Development
Series**

Project Director: Cindy Tucker (916) 686-7748

**Funding: \$999,753**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Working toward a vision of strengthening every district school with two
master teachers in grades 5, 8, and 11 to serve as American History
instructional coaches for all history teachers, two teachers from six
middle and six high schools will be trained in year 1, two each from 17
elementary schools in year 2, and two each from 16 elementary schools in
year 3. The focus of 7-day summer institutes, 3-day colloquia,
workshops, an interactive website, and follow-up meetings is U.S.
Constitutional history with an emphasis on the Bill of Rights, evolution
of state vs. federal authority, key Supreme Court decisions, and federal
policies. Partners include Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, National
Council for History Education, Council for Civic Education, and the
Social Science Consortium.

**Grantee: Fresno Unified School District, Fresno, CA**

**Project Name: Teaching American History**

**Project Director: Linda Dritsas (559) 457-3186**

**Funding: \$987,511**

**Number of Teachers Served: 36**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with California State University Fresno, the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation, the San Joaquin Valley History Project, the
Fresno City and County Historical Society, and the Legion of Valor
Museum, this project uses US History Alive! to deepen the content
background of teachers of grades 5, 8, and 11. A seven-member History
Leadership Team plans professional development each year. Professional
development will be ongoing throughout the year, each session building
upon previous sessions. Content includes pre-Columbian settlement, US
history and geography through growth and conflict, and continuity and
change in the 20^th^ century. Content knowledge is combined with
research-based pedagogy, supplemented by time for practice and coaching.
Other activities include a series of monthly late afternoon seminars, a
nonfiction book club, picture books in the content area, best practices
in teaching American history, and a series of Saturdays devoted to
computer-based technology.

**Grantee: Garden Grove Unified School District, Garden Grove, CA**

**Project Name: The United States: An Experiment in Democracy,
Diversity, and Market Economy**

**Project Director: Francine V. Curtis (562) 985-9252**

**Funding: \$959,014**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Teachers of 5^th^, 8^th^, and 11^th^ grades are participants. The 2-week
summer institute for year 1 deals with topics that include: for the
8^th^ grade, political parties, the Marshall Court, economic differences
between North and South, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction; for
the 11^th^ grade, agrarian protest, industrialism and worker protest,
the Federal Reserve System, and prosperity and depression. In year 2 the
institutes deal with topics that include: for the 8^th^ grade, women on
the frontier and in the factory, mid-19^th^ century immigrants, and the
slave family; 11^th^ grade, post-World War I nativism, the Great Black
Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and the Great Depression. Year 3 deals
with topics such as: for the 5^th^ grade (added in the third year),
European exploration, English settlement, slavery, and the American
Revolution; for the 8^th^ grade, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of
1812, and the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War; for the 11^th^ grade,
World War I and II, the Cold War and containment, and Vietnam. Partners
for the project are: California History Project, California State
University Long Beach, the Public Information Department of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, and the Center for Civic Education.

**Grantee: Lawndale Elementary School District, Lawndale, CA**

**Project Name: Constitutional Perspectives: A History of America**

Project Director: Robin Potchka (310) 973-1300

**Funding: \$923,201**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 4**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This project unites three neighboring urban districts, including five
large middle and high schools and a new charter high school, with
Constitutional Rights Foundation, Pepperdine University, University of
Southern California, University of California at Los Angeles, California
State Universities in Los Angles and Long Beach, Loyola Marymount
University, Skirball Cultural Center, and Autry National Center of the
American West to promote historical scholarship, effective teaching, and
outstanding learning experiences in traditional American history.
Partners also include artist teacher coaches who are specialists in
American history. Through 20 or more days of intensive summer and
weekend institutes, seminars, workshops, field trips, classroom
demonstrations, and small group cross-district grade-alike study, 40
middle and high school teachers per year will examine U.S.
history---events, people and turning points---through the lens of the
U.S. Constitution. Themes follow the National Assessment of Educational
Progress assessment: Change and Continuity of American Democracy,
Interactions of Peoples, Culture and Ideas, Economic Opportunity and
Exercise of Freedom, and Expanding Role of America in the World.

**Grantee: Long Beach Unified School District, Long Beach, CA**

**Project Name: Teach Our Heritage---Preserve Our Democracy**

**Project Director: Linda Mehlbrech (562) 426-6288**

**Funding: \$936,910**

**Number of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Professional development for teachers of grades 5, 8, and 11 includes:
development of lessons using the disciplined-inquiry model; historical
research using primary source documents; field study in Boston,
Gettysburg, and New York City; implementation of Interactive History
Notebooks, and classroom support. Content includes: the struggle for
equality (e.g., social, political, and religious institutions in
colonial America; political and economic initiatives in the Jackson
administration; and movements of women, Latinos, and Native Americans in
the 1960s and 1970s); differing perspectives over time about what
constituted freedom and who is entitled to it (e.g., causes of the
American Revolution, slavery, foreign policy during 1939-1941);
democratic principles versus political reality (e.g., U.S. Constitution,
McCarthy period); toward tolerance and acceptance of diversity (Native
Americans and European settlers; abolitionist movement; Civil Rights
Movement); and the power of individuals to make an impact on American
life (e.g., Mercy Otis Warren, Daniel Webster, George W. Norris, Jane
Addams, Narcissa Whitman). Partners are the California State University
Department of History, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,
and the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy.

**Grantee: Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles, CA**

**Project Name: Freedom's Story: The American Experience**

**Project Director: Ruben Zepeda II (213) 241-6895**

**Funding: \$1,897,693**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The Los Angeles Unified School District in collaboration with the Henry
E. Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens implements
six, 3-day history seminars and six single-day workshops for a total of
24 days of professional development in American history for grade 5
teachers. Workshop and seminar content include: Native Americans before
and after European colonization of North America; establishment of the
original 13 colonies; slavery; English roots; Benjamin Franklin, Sam and
John Adams, and George Washington; the American Revolution; the Bill of
Rights; the Constitution; the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark
Expedition; and westward expansion until 1850.

**Grantee: Napa Valley Unified School District, Napa, CA**

**Project Name: The T.R.A.D.I.T.I.O.N. Project**

**Project Director: Mark Morrison (707) 253-3511**

**Funding: \$912,000**

**Number of Teachers Served: 80**

**Number of School Districts Served: 4**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The project provides a 2-week summer institute featuring content and
pedagogical topics for 8^th^ and 11^th^ grade teachers, four school-year
follow-up days, coaching, and a trip to Washington, D.C. to investigate
historic sites. Year 1 content for both grades concentrates on the
founding democratic principles of the nation, including the Civil War,
the Declaration of Independence. Year 2 offers the first 2 weeks in
Vallejo and the third in Washington, D.C. examining the development and
role of democratic institutions in American history. Year 3 both grades
focus on the roots and emergence of the United States as a world power.
Project partners include Sonoma State University and Solano County
Library.

**Grantee: Northern Humboldt Union High School District, McKinleyville,
CA**

**Project Name: Northern California Teaching American History Program**

**Project Director: Jack Bareilles (707) 839-6400**

**Funding: \$740,131**

**Number of Teachers Served: 100**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This project serves 5^th^ and 8^th^ grade, alternative, and special
education teachers through 3-day workshops and a one-week summer
seminar, training in the use of key documents, partner teaching,
in-service training, biography reading roundtable, and travel. Subject
matter includes American independence (1774-1776), George Washington and
his era, slavery, the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, America between the
wars, the Great Depression, World War II, and the American West.
Partnerships include the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,
Constitutional Rights Foundation---California History Day, Humboldt
County History Day, Humboldt State University Department of History and
College of Professional Studies, and local historic sites.

**Grantee: Sacramento City Unified School District, Sacramento, CA**

**Project Name: Local Communities, American Communities: Reading,
Thinking, and Writing in American History**

**Project Director: Nancy McTygue (530) 752-6192**

**Funding: \$940,000**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 50,000**

This project partners the Sacramento City Unified School District in
Sacramento County with the Area 3 History and Cultures Project, and the
Department of History at the University of California Davis. Through
American history, the project addresses low levels of literacy and
overall achievement among both native English speakers and English
learner student populations in grades 4, 5, 8, and 11. Thematic
specialties include: political, social, religious, and cultural history;
women's Mexican American, and African American history; environmental
and Western history. Building on the History Project's 12-year-old
summer institute model, the program begins with a two-week summer
research and curriculum development institute, whose four components are
lectures, guided research, modeled teaching strategies and lessons, and
supported curriculum development. The project continues with: mentoring
by experienced grade-level coaches and professional historians for
teachers of U.S. history; an examination of local historic sites as
gateways to our national history; coaching in historical methodology
strategies; instruction in strategies for teaching U.S. history to
English learners and students with low literacy in English; and training
in reading comprehension strategies for U.S. history instructional texts
and additional primary and secondary sources.

**Grantee: Salinas Union High School District, Salinas, CA**

**Project Name: Legacies of Freedom, Salinas, CA**

Project Director: Andre R. Quihuis (831) 751-7747

**Funding: \$813,559**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 50,000**

This partnership to improve U.S. History teaching for all schools in the
LEA provides three cohorts of 5^th^, 8^th^ and 11^th^ grade teachers
with two-week summer institutes, a spring seminar series, mentoring,
coaching, and access to instructional resources in cooperation with
California State University Monterey Bay and Gilder Lehrman Institute
for American History. The project serves an area of high poverty in
which one of five teachers is under qualified. Content addresses the
Colonial Period and Early Republic, Influence of Religion and First
Great Awakening, British Intellectual Traditions, Slavery, Continental
Congress, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation,
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, Bill of Rights, Historical
Debates, Immigration, Rise of a World Power, and Civil Rights Era.

**Grantee: San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, San
Bernardino, CA**

**Project Name: Teaching American History: Contexts, Concepts, and
Chronology**

Project Director: Janice Hamner (909) 386-2676

**Funding: \$974,518**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 60**

**Number of School Districts Served: 2**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In cooperation with Constitutional Rights Foundation, Huntington Library
and Museum, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Lincoln Memorial Shrine
and Archives, and American history scholars from five universities, this
project, serving a high poverty area, will increase historical knowledge
and teaching ability of 8^th^ and 11^th^ grade teachers in the
districts' lowest performing schools. The partnership provides for 30
hours of scholarly seminars, 45 hours of research-based professional
development, ongoing relationships with colleagues in other schools,
experts and resources, evaluation, and documentation of activities and
products. Content addresses Colonial Underpinnings; Founding Principles;
Age of Jackson; President Polk and Manifest Destiny; Lincoln; Slavery
and Civil War/Amendments; Theodore Roosevelt; Woodrow Wilson; FDR and
the New Deal; and Post-War Presidency.

**Grantee: San Diego County Superintendent of Schools, San Diego, CA**

**Project Name: American HITS (American History in the Schools)**

**Project Director: Pam McGregor (858) 292-3820**

**Funding: \$1,680,298**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 60**

**Number of School Districts Served: 2**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with University of California San Diego, Center for Civic
Education, Constitutional Rights Foundation, and Huntingdon Library, Art
Collections and Botanical Gardens, school districts will provide summer
institutes, monthly symposia, peer coaching, lesson study groups and
online sessions on content to new and experienced teachers of American
History in grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8. Summer institute participants
include 50 teacher and 20 teacher leaders each year from the 6-12
districts expected to participate yearly. Themes of this effort to
improve U.S. instruction include: Core Documents, Core Values of Justice
and Liberty, Citizenship and Civic Responsibility, The Developing
Nation, and Significant People. Content relevant to California standards
covers events, individuals, and issues related to the U.S. Constitution,
American Revolution, development of the American republic, Declaration
of Independence, slavery, and Civil War.

#### Colorado

**Grantee: Durango School District 9-R, Durango, CO**

**Project Name: Improving Student Achievement Through Great Ideas,
Events and People in American History**

Project Director: Judy Michalski (970) 247-5411

**Funding: \$535,018**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Located in a rural southwestern corner of Colorado, the district and
partner Fort Lewis College provide teachers in grades 6-12 with
intensive professional development, stressing increased student
achievement through effective instruction. The program's technology-rich
component complements nine 1-week summer institutes and provides a forum
for interaction between, teachers and college faculty in the
four-corners region of Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona.
Formative evaluation will continually strengthen the project through
highly successful National Science Foundation leadership model for
curriculum implementation and professional development, CSSI/CONNECT,
used previously in the district. Institute topics cover: Declaration of
Independence, U.S. Constitution, Ratification Debates, Bill of Rights,
and Revolutionary, New Nation, Civil War, Industrial, Modern and
Post-Modern Eras.

#### Connecticut

**Grantee: Bridgeport Public Schools, Bridgeport, CT**

**Project Name: Essential Understanding in American History**

**Project Director: Teresa A. Carroll (203) 332-2709**

**Funding: \$814,582**

**Number of Teachers Served: 150**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 3,642**

The grantee will conduct five cycles of professional development for
teachers of grades 4 and 5 focusing on Colonization and Settlement,
Revolution, the New Nation, Expansion and Reform, and Civil War and
Reconstruction. Activities include 3-day summer institutes, four 2-hour
workshops to promote instruction of writing through American history
content, four 2-hour workshops to use resources from websites, and field
trips to places such as Colonial Williamsburg. Partners are: the
Connecticut Historical Society (CHS), Collins Education Associates, and
Cooperative Educational Services.

**Grantee: Danbury Board of Education, Danbury, CT**

**Project Name: Partners in American History: Strengthening Teacher
Content Knowledge to Enhance Student Learning**

**Project Director: Clare Barnett (203) 797-4709**

**Funding: \$915,340**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Teachers of 8^th^ to 12^th^ grades are guided in their professional
development in five thematic topics by faculty from one or more of the
partners---Western Connecticut State University, the University of
Bridgeport, the University of Hartford, and the Danbury Scott-Fanton
Museum and Historical Society, Inc. Two one-week summer academies offer
discussions organized around the themes, Foundations of the United
States, Defining the Nation, Rise to World Power, Economics, and
Immigration and Minorities. On four district-mandated days, the 40
teachers partner with Scholars-in-Residence to introduce other teachers
to this project. They conduct workshops at schools and share lessons and
resources they have gathered. In the third year, two one-week summer
programs (40 additional teachers for each), form collaborative teams to
assess teaching content needs in middle and elementary schools.

**Grantee: New Haven Public Schools, New Haven, CT**

**Project Name: Connecticut Urban Consortium for the Teaching of
American History**

> Project Director: Willie Freeman (203) 946-2012

# Funding: \$925,990

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 108**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Constitutional history is emphasized in this 80-hour professional
development program which partners New Haven, Waterbury, and New London
school districts with Southern Connecticut State University, Yale
University, Gilder Lehrman Center, New Haven Colony Historical Society,
Connecticut College, University of Connecticut, Charter Oak State
College, Old State House and Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research
Center, Connecticut State Department of Education, and New England
History Teachers Association in creating 36 new K-12 grade master
teachers in U.S. History each project year. Greater numbers of teachers
benefit from mentoring and creation of a project website; new teachers
are especially targeted for mentoring. Curriculum enrichment support
includes weeklong summer institutes, symposia and dinners including
keynote presentations, Saturday seminars, site visits, and increased
participation in National History Day and the New England History
Teachers Association. Content themes cover "nationhood" including the
Declaration of Independence and American Revolution; representative
government, including universal suffrage; separation of powers,
including term limits, presidential powers, judicial review, and
legislature's power of the purse; federalism vs. states' rights
including the Civil War; religious freedom; free speech; equal rights in
education, housing, and work; privacy vs. government control;
territorial expansion; trade and defense; nations within a nation; and
crime and punishment. Each theme also explores related Connecticut
history.

#### Delaware

**Grantee: Red Clay Consolidated School District, Wilmington, DE**

**Project Name: Red Clay American History Project**

**Project Director: Dr. Barry A. Joyce (302) 831-2860**

**Funding: \$954,639**

**Number of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: 2**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Over three years, the project provides eight 2-day American history
workshops and three 2-week summer institutes. The project focuses on
teachers of grades 3-8 teaching American history as a single subject.
Topics presented each year in the workshops and summer institutes are
interrelated and complementary: year 1---topics on pre-Columbian America
through the early national period of the United States to 1800; year
2---topics on Jeffersonian America through the Gilded Age; and year
3---topics on 20^th^ century America. Partners are the American
Philosophical Society, the Historical Society of Delaware, Delaware
Public Archives, and the University of Delaware.

#### Florida

**Grantee: Panhandle Area Educational Consortium (PAEC), Chipley, FL**

**Project Name: Teaching American History**

**Project Director: Ann Owens (850) 638-6131**

**Funding: \$767,715**

**Number of Teachers Served: 60**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: 1,608**

PAAEC provides professional development and online courses; its
Professional Development Center provides workshops, seminars,
conferences, and courses to faculty. In this project, teachers of 8^th^
and 11^th^ grade history receive four, face-to-face workshops each year
during the school year with web-based follow-up; training to enhance
computer skills; a summer institute; and field trips. Content includes
the distance learning *A Biography of America* series, Annenberg/CPB's
*Democracy in America* series and the broadcast series, *The
Constitution*, and *Ethics in America,* and *Making Civics Real*.
Partners are the Gulf Coast Community College, the Florida Department of
State's Division of Historical Resources, the Annenberg/CPB Channel,
Colonial Williamsburg, and the Organization of American Historians.

**Grantee: Volusia County School District, Daytona Beach, FL**

**Project Name: Volusia County Schools Teaching American History
Project: Creating Responsible Citizens**

**Project Director: Jason Caros (386) 255-6475**

**Funding: \$791,756**

**Number of Teachers Served:73**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Participants take part in three immersion programs: summer institutes
consisting of week-long seminars that focus on American history from the
Colonial through the Constitutional Era with specific emphasis on civic
heritage of the United States and the rights and responsibilities of its
citizens, immigration, and slavery; travel to historic landmarks in
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Williamsburg; and
travel and research of local historic sites. Partners include
Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach Community College, Stetson
University, the College Board, Teachers' Curriculum Institute (History
Alive!), Volusia County Public Library system, and local historical
organizations, such as Halifax Historical Society, Pioneer Settlement
for the Creative Arts, Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation
Association, Sons of the American Revolution, and West Volusia
Historical Society.

### Georgia

**Grantee: Henry County Board of Education, McDonough, GA**

**Project Name: Linking American History: Past to the Present**

**Project Director: Dr. Lois Wolfe (770) 957-6547**

**Funding: \$984,115**

**Number of Teachers Served: 72**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

**Number of Students Served: No Information available**

Partnering with Clayton College and State University, the Georgia
Archives, the National Archives-SE Region, the Jimmy Carter Presidential
Library, the Georgia Humanities Council, and the Georgia Department of
Education, this project addresses weaknesses in students' knowledge of
American history during the era of 1945 to the present. In 8-day summer
institutes, teachers of grades 4, 5, 8, and 11 study issues in: the
foundations of democracy; the Cold War at home and abroad, economic
transformation---the consumer society; civil rights; Vietnam; the Middle
East; and politics and government. In year 2, teachers visit historic
sites in Georgia.

**Grantee: Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, Savannah, GA**

**Project Name: Overcoming Historical Illiteracy: Building the
Foundation**

Project Director: Candy Lowe (912) 201-5226

**Funding: \$990,448**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Aimed at enhancing teaching and learning American history in the primary
grades, this professional development program for K-3 teachers in all 30
district schools builds on a previous TAHG grant, "History Is
Monumental" by creating "Venues of Freedom" combining summer travel
institutes to historic sites, annual keynote addresses from a nationally
recognized historian, symposia and age-appropriate lesson plans focusing
on biographies, a traveling panel exhibition, mentoring, online
technology for access to history content, literacy-based history forums,
and local site visits. Examples of lessons include: Era of George
Washington, North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective, American
Civil War Issues, Strategies, Leadership, and America Between the Wars.
Collaborating partners are the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Georgia
Historical Society.

#### Iowa

**Grantee: Area Education Agency 267, Cedar Falls, IA**

**Project Name: An American Story: Teaching American History in Iowa**

Project Director: Denise Schares (319) 273-8200

**Funding: \$718,423**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: 62**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Three cohorts of 25 American history teachers in grades 4-12 will each
accrue almost 200 hours of professional development through seven
monthly workshops per year, a three-day summer institute, and
partnership with mentors and coaches. Collaborators with the Area
Education Agency include the University of Iowa's History and Education
Departments, Belin-Blank Center, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and
Museum and Grout Museum of History and Science. Goals include creation
of well qualified American history teachers, a sustainable professional
network, and increased ability to measure student achievement using the
Belin-Blank model emphasizing immersion, focus on curriculum,
examination of practice, and participation in collaborative work. In
addition to pedagogical skills, subject matter covers Industrialism,
Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Great Depression, and roles of women in the
emergence of a modern nation. The project also focuses on improving
student performance in areas measured by the National Assessment of
Education Progress: Change and Continuity in American Democracy;
Gathering and Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, Environment, and The
Changing Role of America in the World.

**Grantee: Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency, Bettendorf, IA**

**Project Name: Learning Through History: Mississippi Bend AEA
Collaboration**

**Project Director: Jan Yoder (563) 344-6401**

**Funding: \$845,970**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 70**

**Number of School Districts Served: 22**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This program will provide 200 hours of professional development in
American History teaching to teachers in grades 4-6 in Eastern Iowa
brings school districts together with Davenport Putnam Museum of
History, Augustana College, University of Northern Iowa, Learner's
OnLine, History Alive! and Iowa Archeological Society. Objectives
include improving instructional skills through professional learning
teams that assist staff in using literacy benchmarks and technology and
significantly increasing student achievement in American history and
literacy. Activities are carried out through summer institutes and
school year immersion activities and workshops, professional learning
teams, technology integration to access and effectively present primary
sources, and development of teaching portfolio and web-based units to
share strategies and knowledge. Topics focus on core historical themes
of the NAEP U.S. History framework spanning 1607 to the present: change
and continuity in American democracy; gathering and interactions of
peoples, culture and ideas; economic and technological changes and their
relation to society, ideas and the environment; and the changing role of
America in the world.

**Grantee: Washington Community School District, Washington, IA**

**Project Name: Bringing History Home Phase II**

**Project Director: Elise Fillpot (319) 358-1434**

**Funding: \$938,860**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 128**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

**Number of Students Served: 24,000**

Bringing History Home Phase II seeks to expand a successful elementary
history program for K-6 graders funded by a 2001 Teaching American
History grant to three rural Iowa school districts and 28 additional
teachers from other districts. Its two-year sequence of workshops is
combined with month-long classroom projects twice a year, and creation
of an Iowa network of elementary history advocates. Collaborating
partners include the University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa,
Indiana University and St. Ambrose University in addition to Iowa Public
Television and the Hometown Perry, Iowa Museum. In the final year,
teachers, mentors, historians and education specialists gather for an
inaugural Elementary History Education Conference. Using primary and
secondary resources, content builds on themes introduced in earlier
grades: industrialization, immigration, the Progressive Era, slavery and
civil rights, the environmental movement, and political, military,
social, and economic units reflecting the National Standards for
History.

#### Idaho

**Grantee: Joint School District #241 Grangeville, Grangeville, ID**

**Project Name: iTEACH (Imparting Teachers with Expertise, Appreciation,
and Comprehension in History)**

**Project Director: Wayne R. Davis (202) 983-0990**

**Funding: \$889,649**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: 5**

**Number of Students Served: 2,961**

In a rural, high poverty region the district is partnering with
University of Idaho, Lewis-Clark State College, Historical Museum at St.
Gertrude, Idaho County Historical Society, Lewis County Historical
Society, and Grangeville Cooperative Network of Libraries to increase
teacher understanding of and student achievement in American history.
iTEACH aims to be a learning network of scholars bringing together local
and national experts in content and pedagogical knowledge through 1-week
annual summer institutes, 4 annual workshops, 4 annual historic site
visits, coaching and mentoring, creation of an on-line AP History course
available to all high schools, and expanding instructional resources for
all history teachers. iTEACH will develop American History standards
reflecting state achievement standards using resources of the American
Historical Association and NCHE, with special attention to the Lewis and
Clark Expedition. Strategic layers of support will facilitate teaching
American history as a separate academic subject. Each participant
receives a total of 308 hours of professional development in content
knowledge and instructional skill building.

**Grantee: Vallivue School District 139, Caldwell, ID**

**Project Name: Canyon County Teaching American History Project**

**Project Director: Scott Yenor (208) 426-2388**

**Funding: \$865,788**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 360**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This project meets a critical need for improved American History
instruction in Canyon County by providing content-based professional
development through three one-week summer institutes per year and four
one-day seminars to fifth grade and high school history teachers in more
than 25 schools. Partners include Boise University's College of Social
Science and Public Affairs and Center for School Improvement and Policy
Studies, Idaho State Historical Society, and National Association of
Scholars, and American Academy for Liberal Education, the program's
independent evaluator. Institute emphasis is placed on providing
"deliverable" educational tools to teachers, with use of the Japanese
lesson study approach to plan, teach, debrief and finalize units.
Content covers Separation of Church and State, Presidential Leadership
during the Civil War, Progressive Era and Cold War, Constitution and
Federalists, Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase, American Polity and
Election of 1860, Lincoln, Progressive Reform, New Deal and
Progressivism, Emergence of U.S. as a World Power, Roosevelt, Truman,
LBJ and Modern Anti-Communism, and How Presidents Changed American
History.

#### Illinois

**Grantee: Evanston Township High School, Evanston, IL**

**Project Name: Creating a Community of Scholars: Raising Student
Achievement through Partnerships and Content-Rich Professional
Development**

**Project Director: Charles Brady (847) 424-7117**

**Funding: \$962,038**

**Number of Teachers Served: 60**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 20,000**

Professional development for K-12 teachers of American history is
provided in partnership with Northwestern University, the Newberry
Library, the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, and the Minority
Student Achievement Network. The project has three components, but the
heart of the program is a 2-week summer institute. The
Historians-in-Residence portion of the project has two
components---teaching as many as six colloquia throughout the school
year, and a Master Teacher program. The project also facilitates
development of a nationwide network of American history teachers.
Content areas include post-World War II America; immigrants; slavery;
and the Ku Klux Klan; urbanization and the suburbs; George Washington
and his era; the Constitution and civil liberties.

**Grantee: Urbana School District #116, Urbana, IL**

**Project Name: American History Teachers Collaborative**

**Project Director: Donald Owen (217) 384-3680**

**Funding: \$717,235**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 150**

**Number of School Districts Served: 17**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

To disseminate content knowledge and foster communication of best
practices in teaching American History, the LEA is partnering with three
institutions housing historical documents and artifacts: Urbana Free
Library (home of the Champaign County Historical Archives), Champaign
County Historical Museum, and Early American Museum. Teachers in grades
5, 8, and 11 will focus on Vital Themes of History in three 5-day summer
institutes where they will learn from residential professional
historians, explore primary sources, and create lesson plans to be
published on the project website. Four day-long workshops and four
evening discussion groups supplement mentoring to ensure new knowledge
is transferred to instructional practice. Teachers also receive
fellowships for internships with partner museums. Evaluations of project
effectiveness will be based on National Assessment of Educational
Progress benchmarks for U.S. History and state standards. Areas of staff
expertise include the Founding Era, Constitutional History, and Civil
War.

#### Indiana

**Grantee: University School Corporation, Muncie, IN**

**Project Name: Bridging the American Experiment**

**Project Director: David C. Williams (765) 285-8099**

**Funding: \$686,871**

**Number of Teachers Served: No information available**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: 11,190**

The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, through a
partnership with the history department of Ball State University,
convenes teacher cohort groups led by a facilitator teacher, meeting
regionally during the school year to interact via distance learning
technology with content experts from these two institutions. Intensive
summer workshops facilitate the development of unit and lesson plans. A
website contains a digital library of primary and secondary resources
for teachers and students, exemplary unit plans, and an interactive
component for teacher sharing and communication. Indiana's history is
intertwined and used to mirror the development of politics and power
(the evolution and practice of political democracy), economics (the role
of frontier and agrarian work, impact of technology and urbanization,
and evolution of American business and labor), and culture and society
(forces that have altered American culture). Content is divided into
eras: territorial development and statehood; statehood to 1919; and 1919
to the present.

#### Kansas

**Grantee: Parsons District Schools USD 503, Parsons, KS**

**Project Name: Project eHIKES (Enhancing History Instruction for Kansas
Educators and Students)**

**Project Director: Linda Proehl (620) 421-5950**

**Funding: \$754,543**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 25**

**Number of School Districts Served: 4**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Project eHIKES seeks to increase historical knowledge and skills of
middle/high schoolteachers by providing them with an understanding of
primary and secondary history sources, their context, and research-based
instructional strategies. The program emphasizes two themes: evolution
of American political democracy from colonial days to the
present---Constitution, Civil War, slavery, emancipation, and civil
rights; and the changing character of American society and
culture---arts, letters, education, thought, religion and values.
Participants must commit to the three-year program, demonstrate new
techniques in the classroom, and conduct workshops. Partners include the
National Archives and Records Administration, H-Net (Humanities and
Social Sciences Online), Pittsburgh State University History Department,
Kansas State Department of Education, and Southeast Kansas Education
Service Center/Greenbush. Research and Training Association will
evaluate impacts on student achievement and teacher learning outcome.

**Grantee: Educational Services and Staff Development Association of
Central Kansas, Hutchinson, KS**

**Project Name: American Rights and Race Relations: Legacy of *Brown v.
Board of Education***

# Project Director: Glenn Wiebe (620) 663-9566 

**Funding: \$740,310**

**Number of Teachers Served: 55**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This project provides professional development to teachers of grades
7-12 and is designed to capitalize on the 50^th^ anniversary of the U.S.
Supreme Court's landmark *Brown v. Board* decision. Participants attend
a 5-day colloquium during each of the three summers of the project, held
at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, the city of the *Brown v.
Board* case. Content in year 1 explores the 10 years of civil rights
activity leading up to the *Brown* decision, including the Truman
administration, the NAACP, and the Southern Manifesto. For year 2 civil
rights and race relations from 1854 through 1954 discusses issues of
slavery, abolition, Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and Jim
Crow. Year 3 broadens discussion to the long-term effect of the *Brown*
decision. Partners for the project include the Educational Services and
Staff Development of Central Kansas, Southeast Kansas Education Service
Center -- Greenbush, Washburn University, Brown Foundation for
Educational Equity, Kansas Council for History Education, Kansas State
Historical Society, Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.

**Grantee: Unified School District 480, Liberal, KS**

**Project Name: At the Center of It All**

**Project Director: Lana Evans (620) 626-3800**

**Funding: \$570,793**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 40**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This collaborative professional development program for teachers of U.S.
History in grades 4-8 brings together Liberal, Kansas Public Schools,
Seward County Historical Society and Museums, and University of Kansas'
School of Education and College of Arts and Sciences. Two cycles of 20
randomly selected teachers gain a better understanding of traditional
American history, scholarly methods of research using primary sources,
and accommodation for non-traditional learners through summer
institutes, seminars, coaching, and development of online resources.
Emphasizing the relationship of Kansas to U.S. History, content includes
Native Americans; pioneer explorers; trains, railroads and highways;
immigrants; settlement; indigenous peoples, Indian relocation; the Civil
War; social change; economic change; World War I; the Great Depression;
World War II; and the recent past.

#### Kentucky

**Grantee: Ballard County Board of Education, Barlow, KY**

**Project Name: Teaching American History Opportunities for Educators
(TAHOE)**

**Project Director: Natalie McDowell (270) 762-6177**

**Funding: \$976,666**

**Number of Teachers Served: 130**

**Number of School Districts Served: 14**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with Murray State University and the Kentucky Historical
Society, TAHOE expands upon its earlier version (TAHOE I), which
includes summer institutes, one-day discussion seminars, guided
seminars, and one-day historic site visits. It creates six thematic,
teacher-developed and tested history units for elementary, middle, and
high school teachers and culminates with a Teaching American History
Summit. Topics of discussion include: the Civil Rights Movement,
frontier life, art and music in American history, Kentucky's role in the
Civil War, and the economic forces in American history.

**Grantee: Green River Regional Educational Cooperative, Bowling Green,
KY**

**Project Name: Revolutionary Results (R^2^)**

Project Director: Elizabeth C. Storey (270) 745-2451

**Funding: \$990,827**

**Number of Teachers Served: 116**

**Number of School Districts Served: 9**

**Number of Students Served: 6,264**

Teachers of grades 5, 8, and 11 participate in annual American history
institutes (8 days in the summer and 2 days in the following fall) and
related activities, e.g., experiential teaching techniques, Chautauqua
(historic character-based storytelling), training in library research,
and history expeditions. Teaching techniques are based on national
standards and correlated to the state's standards. Subject matter
includes: American women and Native Americans in American history, the
American West, American wars, and Thomas Jefferson and other famous
persons. Partners are: Green River Regional Educational Cooperative,
Western Kentucky University and its libraries, Kentucky Library and
Museum, and Kentucky Humanities Council.

**Grantee: Harlan Independent School District, Harlan, KY**

**Project Name: American Legacies II: Immersion Seminars in American
History**

**Project Director: Rebecca S. Hanly (502) 564-1792**

**Funding: \$983,960**

**Number of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 15**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with the Kentucky Historical Society, the University of
Kentucky, the Kentucky Heritage Council, and the Kentucky Department of
Education, American Legacies II offers three one-year immersion seminars
in traditional American history followed by an additional six months of
in-classroom support. The theme is closely correlated with the Kentucky
Department of Education's core content: the emergence of American
democracy; market revolutions: the rise of capitalism and its impact on
democracy; and American home fronts. Each year five fellows of the
program serve as mentors to the new group. Other activities include a
2-day seminar on historical perspective and evidence, study group
meetings, a summer field trip, a fall lecture and discussion series, and
intensive one-on-one classroom mentoring.

### Louisiana

**Grantee: Lafayette Parish Public Schools, Lafayette, LA**

**Project Name: My Freedom: An Innovative and Comprehensive Professional
Development Program for American History Teachers**

**Project Director: James H. Easton (337) 236-6825**

**Funding: \$999,829**

**Number of Teachers Served: 77**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: 8,200**

In collaboration with its partners---the Smithsonian Institution, the
National Council for History Education, the University of
Louisiana-Lafayette, South Louisiana Community College---this project
offers professional development to elementary, middle, and high school
teachers. Each year teachers attend two 3-day seminars, a full-day
summer colloquium, full-day Saturday seminars, and three 1-day summer
technical workshops. Topics for year 1 (Foundation of Freedom)
activities focus on: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,
the Bill of Rights, the Civil War and its causes, and slavery. Year 2
(Reconstructing a Nation) focuses on: Reconstruction, Native Americans
during the Homestead Era, industrialization, minority issues,
immigration, and urbanization. Year 3 (Modern Expressions of Freedom)
focuses on: post-World War II America, feminism, the Vietnam War, and
Supreme Court decisions, including *Brown vs. Board of Education.*
Content is supplemented by workshops on integrating the use of
technology and the Internet into the classroom and field trips to
historic sites and conferences.

**Grantee: New Orleans Public Schools, New Orleans, LA**

**Project Name: Teaching American History: New Orleans Public Schools at
the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase**

**Project Director: Michael Sartisky (504) 523-4352**

**Funding: \$995,403**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 396**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 47,500**

Through a partnership with Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the
district---in which almost half the teachers are uncertified---will
create a series of eighteen 4-week graduate-level "Teacher Institutes
for Advanced Study in Traditional American History, six per summer, to
train virtually all middle and high school teachers and a larger number
of elementary school teachers who teach American History. Aimed at
revising the U.S. History curricula in grades 4, 8 and 11 and Louisiana
history in grade 7, the professional development program provides
strategies, materials and technology to help students better understand
the American Revolution, Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution,
the Dred Scott decision, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Populism and
Progressivism, World War I, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World
War II, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, the New Frontier,
Vietnam, and the historical roots of other issues faced by Americans
today. School-year in-service sessions at school sites, local museums,
archives, and other institutions supplement study at summer institutes.

### Massachusetts

**Grantee: Amherst-Pelham Regional Schools, Amherst, MA**

**Project Name: Constitutional History Renewal Project**

**Project Director: Michael Hannahan (413) 545-0001**

**Funding: \$864,388**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with the University of Massachusetts, and the Pocumtuck
Valley Memorial Association, the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District
utilizes documentary and cultural history surrounding the writing,
ratification, maintenance, and development of the United States
Constitution to increase understanding and appreciation of traditional
American history throughout the four westernmost counties of
Massachusetts. For each of 3 years, 40 teachers from all grade levels
attend a two-week summer session and three two-day seminars. Year 1
covers the founding and ratification debates; year 2 centers on the
expansion of the franchise and battles over who qualifies as a citizen;
year 3 looks at the challenges of immigration and industrialization as
related to constitutional rights and liberties.

**Grantee: Salem Public Schools, Salem, MA**

**Project Name: Salem in History: Science and Art of Learning from
Evidence and Materials in History**

**Project Director: Dr. Marilyn Gigliotti (978) 825-3607**

**Funding: \$877,472**

**Number of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with the Salem State College Department of History, the
Peabody Essex Museum, and the National Park Service, this project offers
intensive, ongoing professional development to teachers of grades 3, 5,
8, and 10. Content is divided into six core themes: 1) The United States
in the World: American Foreign Relations; 2) American Political Thought:
The Constitution and American Democratic Institutions; 3) Social Changes
and Social Reform; 4) Immigration and Migration: Cultural Interaction
and the Peopling of America; 5) An Industrious People: American Economic
History; and 6) Salem as Place: Local History in a National Context. The
project format includes summer workshops (graduate-level seminars),
monthly seminars, monthly follow-up sessions, one-on-one work with
experts, and individual and web-based learning experiences.

#### Maryland

**Grantee: Harford County Public Schools, Bel Air, MD**

**Project Name: Teaching History, Teaching Freedom: Historical Thinking
for the 21^st^ Century**

**Project Director: Gerald Scarborough**

**Funding: \$727,935**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

To improve student achievement in U.S. History through improving teacher
instruction, this professional development project offers annual 6-day
summer institutes with elementary and secondary tracks, six weekend
workshops, research field experiences, and mentoring for participants.
Focusing on content and pedagogical best practices, elementary teachers
examine exploration, colonial, and revolutionary periods through
European, African and Native American perspectives; secondary teachers
examine freedom from the American Revolution to formation of the
American republic, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War II, and the Cold
War. Participants maintain a portfolio and personal journal and
disseminate information and strategies to colleagues. Partners providing
graduate-level instruction include University of Maryland at College
Park, Maryland Humanities Council, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History, and Maryland Department of Education.

**Grantee: Kent County Public Schools, Chestertown, MD**

**Project Name: Washington's Legacy Project: Teaching American History**

**Project Director: Joan Buffone (410) 778-7116**

**Funding: \$951,909**

**Number of Teachers Served: 307**

**Number of School Districts Served: 9**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Partnering with Washington College and the C.V. Starr Center for the
Study of the American Experience, this project provides both resources
and professional development for teachers of grades 4-12. Components of
the initiatives include: an annual 2-day conference; the course
*Literacy, Learning and Teaching American History*; one-week summer
institutes; Saturday seminars; a website; and a portfolio of lesson
plans. Strategies include: using the *Sultana,* a reproduction of an
18^th^ century British schooner to teach about the slave trade; teaching
with historic places such as Mt. Vernon; and using documents in class.
Content includes: African American history and culture, Chesapeake ports
of entry, and shipping.

**Grantee: Wicomico County Public Schools, Salisbury, MD**

**Project Name: Community as Laboratory: Maryland's Eastern Shore and
the History of Freedom and Democracy in America**

**Project Director: Dr. Kenneth Edward Layfield (410) 677-4511**

**Funding: \$814,582**

**Number of Teachers Served: No information available**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The project offers two 2-week summer institutes that include examples of
local history that illustrate larger national themes, 8 days of
workshops, several field trips to local historic sites, and a follow-up,
1-week institute in the third year. Collaborating with Salisbury
University and The Edward H. Nabb Research Center, program content
includes: political choices (including the Civil Rights Movement),
economic changes (tobacco plantations to the 20^th^ century oyster
industry), citizenship, religion, slavery to freedom, and oral history
workshops.

#### Maine

**Grantee: Maine School Administrative District #11**

**Project Name: American Lives: Teaching History Through Biography**

Project Director: Charles Calhoun (207) 773-5051

**Funding: \$953,166**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 30**

**Number of School Districts Served: 10**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Teachers in grades 5-12 from the Gardiner Area School District and
affiliated districts in the Capital Area Education Alliance of rural
central Maine will strengthen their ability to teach traditional
American history by studying, researching, and writing about notable
Americans. Administered by the LEA and Maine Humanities Council, the
project brings together University of Maine History Department, Maine
State Archives, Maine Historical Society, Margaret Chase Smith Library
and Archives, Bates College's Muskie Archives, and Bowdoin College
Library. Over 3 years, 30 teachers participate in scholarly conferences,
colloquia, residential summer institutes, independent research projects,
and field trips, with travel grants funding study in major archives
partnering in the project. Work will be incorporated into lesson units
that are peer reviewed, edited and disseminated via websites. Content
focuses on American Lives in the 18^th^ Century (year 1), 19^th^ Century
(year 2), and 20^th^ Century (year 3), with a "Getting to Know a Real
American Hero" event held annually.

#### Michigan

**Grantee: Battle Creek Public Schools, Battle Creek, MI**

**Project Name: Meaningful Learning in American History**

**Project Director: Elizabeth Ashburn (269) 660-5879**

**Funding: \$927,999**

**Number of Teachers Served: 160**

**Number of School Districts Served: 4**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This partnership with Michigan State University College of Arts and
Letters and College of Education provides teachers of grades 4-12 with
professional development that focuses on using technology to support
research-based organizing ideas and classroom instruction. Strategies
are: formation of American history Professional Learning Groups,
American history Professional Learning Anchor events of 1-5 days,
American history historian consultants, and communication about American
history teaching and learning, Content includes governance and politics,
ideals of American democracy, American democracy in action, government
and world affairs, and the Civil War as "a defining event upon which we
have often imposed unity and continuity."

**Grantee: Delta-Schoolcraft Intermediate School District, Escanaba,
MI**

**Project Name: Foundations of Democracy: Teaching American History**

**Project Director: Kristine Paulsen (906) 786-9300**

**Funding: \$969,746**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 165**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Serving 34 public schools, 2 private schools, 1 public school academy,
and 2 alternative high schools, the district is partnering with National
Council for History Education, Center for Civic Education, faculty from
Michigan State University and Western Michigan University, U.S. Forest
Service Heritage Resources, Delta County Historical Society, Detroit
History Museum, and Fayette Historic State Park to create 66 master
history teachers and provide mentoring for 99 additional teachers in
grades 5, 8, 11 and 12. The master teacher cadre receive approximately
275 hours of professional development emphasizing traditional American
History, biography, key individuals and events, foundational documents
including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of
Rights, development of the judicial system, and regional history
focusing on environment, values, political institutions, exploration
migration, expansion, and economic development. Activities include use
of Internet resources, research, summer institutes focusing on narrative
history and storytelling, colloquia, piloting and videotaping of
instructional units, and in-service on student playwriting, addressing
historical events.

**Grantee: Kalamazoo RESA, Kalamazoo, MI**

**Project Name: Southwest Michigan Consortium on Teaching American
History**

**Project Director: Lynne Cowart (269) 385-1579**

**Funding: \$986,135**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 52**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In an effort to expose high school American History teachers,
particularly those uncertified or untenured, to intensive professional
development on practicing history as a discipline, a consortium was
created of Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency, Western
Michigan University History Department, Gerald R. Ford Presidential
Museum and Kalamazoo Valley Museum. Project components include analysis
of student American History performance by historians and teachers,
teacher participation in a seven-day intensive summer institute to
improve content knowledge, use of artifacts, and instructional skills,
follow up professional development sessions with historians, and
evaluation of project impact. Content covers: meeting of three worlds,
colonization and settlement, revolution and the new nation, expansion
and reform, the Civil War and Reconstruction, industrial U.S., emergence
of modern America, the Great Depression, World War II, Post-War U.S.,
and contemporary U.S.

**Grantee: Plymouth Canton Community Schools, Plymouth, MI**

# Project Name: Laying Foundations for Historical Inquiry in American History

**Project Director: Beth Onusko Savalox and Deborah Parizek (734)
582-5588**

**Funding: \$807,186**

**Number of Teachers Served: 150**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 7,200**

In partnership with the University of Michigan-Dearborn, The Henry Ford,
Schoolcraft College, and the Plymouth Historical Museum, this project
establishes three one-week summer institutes. In addition, secondary
U.S. history teachers have year-round support through a series of
one-day workshops to collaborate, implement new units, and evaluate
results. An historian in residence lectures and assigns a reading list
on the period from 1763 to1895 and 1890 to the present. Tenured history
professors use small breakout sessions to guide teachers in use of
primary resources and critical discussion. Resident experts,
particularly museum curators, help teachers integrate community
resources, and finally, teachers work with curriculum specialists to
implement research-based best instructional practices to increase
student achievement in American history. Topics include colonial
America, the American Revolution, imperialism and World War I, foreign
policy and World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War,
and conflicts in the Middle East. Establishment of a presence on the
intra-district website also promotes collaboration.

#### Missouri

**Grantee: Cooperating School Districts, St. Louis, MO**

**Project Name: Liberty's Legacies: Historical Perspectives on Liberty,
Equality and Reform**

**Project Director: Dennis Lubeck (314) 872-8282**

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

**Number of Teachers Served: 72**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The project comprises four strategies of professional development:
researching historical themes and authentic pedagogy, and also a
week-long summer institute; encountering and discussing new scholarship
in reading seminars, two one-day workshops, and a series of evening
lectures; building teaching networks through listservs, a newsletter,
and conferences; and providing supportive materials, such as annotated
bibliographies, special traveling exhibits, and oral histories. Content
focuses on the Revolutionary Era, the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, post-Civil War and 20^th^ century reform, the women's
movement, progressivism, the New Deal, the Great Society, and the Civil
Rights Movement. Partners include the Cooperating School District's
International Education Consortium, the University of Missouri-St.
Louis, the Missouri Historical Society, and the National Council for
History Education.

**Grantee: Seneca R-VII, Seneca, MO**

**Project Name: Great American Lives: Teaching History Through
Biography**

**Project Director: Pam George (417) 673-7078**

**Funding: \$999,998**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 115**

**Number of School Districts Served: 42**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Great American Lives aims to help American History in-service and
pre-service teachers in grades 4-12 learn about the "challenges of the
times" bringing "ordinary men to the forefront of American history"
through spring reading seminars, summer institutes at historical sites,
development of lesson and unit plans, use of primary documents,
pedagogy/technology workshops, and a concluding Best Practices
conference. Oral history will be stressed and participation in National
History Day encouraged. Partnering with 42 school districts in the
Southwest Center for Educational Excellence Consortium are Missouri
Southern State University-Joplin, Truman Library, and George Washington
Carver National Monument. Institute topics include Civil Rights Tour of
the South, Jefferson's Virginia, New York and Its People, Following the
Underground Railroad, and Across the Divide with Lewis and Clark. Fall
seminars address Great American Lives, FDR and the Holocaust, Roger
Williams and the Puritan Ordeal, and Biography All Around Us.

**Grantee: St. Louis Public Schools, St. Louis, MO**

**Project Name: With Liberty and Justice for All: A Teaching American
History Project**

**Project Director: Linda Riekes (314) 345-2465**

**Funding: \$687,637**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 96**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In collaboration with Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis Mercantile
Library, Washington University's departments of History, American
Culture, African and Afro-American Studies, and Education, St. Louis
University School of Law, St. Louis Public Library, The Bar Association
of Metropolitan St. Louis, St. Louis Public Schools Foundation, and
Parsons Blewett Memorial Fund, the project provides all American History
teachers in the district's 24 middle schools (grades 6-8) with intensive
professional development to revitalize US. History teaching. Teachers
attend a 30-hour Saturday study program and 5-day summer institutes
resulting in instructional units including readings, discussion,
research using original sources, technology and student productions.
Follow-up assistance is provided by historian and teacher educator
teams, and teacher teams must develop a school-wide American History
project involving families as well as the school community. Pre- and
post-testing measure impact. Three winners of American History Teacher
of the Year receive \$500 awards for professional development or
classroom materials. Content themes are: impact of westward expansion on
Native Americans and people of color; freedom and early 19^th^ century
American judicial system; African-Americans in the Civil War; separate
but unequal; freedom and the U.S. Constitution.

#### Mississippi

**Grantee: Jackson Public School District, Jackson, MS**

**Project Name: TEAM-H: Teaching Educators American and Mississippi
History, a Partnership for Improvement**

**Project Director: Catherine Thomas (601) 960-8314**

**Funding: \$905,528**

**Number of Teachers Served: 260**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 31,539**

K-12 teachers participate in a series of ongoing and intense
professional development workshops and trips as well as training in
problem-based historical inquiry. Participants attend a 2-week summer
institute, four one-day workshops during the year, and training with
History Alive! and Learners Online. Partners are Jackson State
University History Department, Old Capitol Museum, and the Mississippi
Humanities Council. Content includes: the Civil War; the Mississippi
Choctaw Indians; civil rights; historic Jackson; and African American
migration, education, and employment.

#### North Carolina

**Grantee: Buncombe County Schools, Asheville, NC**

**Project Name: Discover YOUR History!**

**Project Director: Debbie Goodwin (828) 255-5954**

**Funding: \$907,619**

**Number of Teachers Served: 199**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

**Number of Students Served: 32,420**

History teachers in grades 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11 participate in a 3-year
program of professional development in the form of summer institutes,
academic year-long workshop series, peer coaching, and a U.S. history
teacher support network. In year 1, the summer institute studies
colonization and settlement (1595-1763), and the monthly workshop series
studies the emergence of modern America (1890-1930); year 2, Civil War
and Reconstruction (1850-1877) and postwar United States (1945-1970s),
and the Great Depression and WWII (1929-1945); year 3, expansion and
reform (1801-1861) and development of the industrial U.S. (1870-1900),
and in a traveling summer institute to Charleston, South Carolina and
Wilmington, North Carolina, Colonization and Settlement (1595-1763) and
Revolution in the New Nation (1754-1820s). Partners are: Mars Hill
College, Western Carolina University, University of North Carolina at
Asheville, Center for Diversity Education, Education and Research
Consortium of Western North Carolina, Carl Sandburg Home National
Historic Site, the Smith-McDowell House, and the Vance Birthplace.

**Grantee: Davidson County Board of Education, Lexington, NC**

**Project Name: Foundations First**

**Project Director: Jeanne Haney (336) 249-8182**

**Funding: \$822,614**

**Number of Teachers Served: 140**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

**Number of Students Served: 7,235**

In partnership with the National Council for History Education (NCHE),
High Point University, and Davidson County Community College, the
consortium of Davidson County, Lexington City, and Thomasville City
schools offers staff development to teachers of grades 5, 8, 10, and 11.
Project activities fall into two strands: leadership development for
site coaches, and professional development for American history
teachers. A 3-day spring history colloquium is followed by a 5-day
summer colloquium. The instructional theme is values, beliefs, political
ideas, and institutions. In year 1, content is life in the Americas
before the arrival of Europeans and Africans, and the colonial era,
1607-1763 and 1763-1815. In year 2, content is: expansion and reform
(1801-1860) and the Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877), and the
making of modern America (1865-1920). Year 3 covers the United States
and the two World Wars (1914-1945) and contemporary America (1945 to
present).

**Grantee: Roanoke Rapids Graded School District, Roanoke Rapids, NC**

**Project Name: Immersing Teachers in American History**

**Project Director: Kathy White (252) 537-8563**

**Funding: \$992,416**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 4**

**Number of Students Served: 18,000**

As the hub of four school districts with just under 30,000 students in
rural northeastern North Carolina, Roanoke Rapids will host a series of
intensive, ongoing professional development activities immersing
teachers in grades 4, 5, 8, and high school in the life, literature, and
economics of three eras of American history. Three summer institutes
offering graduate level instruction will be held in partnership with
National Humanities Center and the Gilder Lehrman Institute to enhance
teacher content knowledge. Southeastern Region Vision for Education
(SERVE) will provide assistance with unit planning. Teachers and
principals must commit to teaching American History as a specific
discipline for a minimum of four and one-half hours per week at each
grade level. Participants will be mentored and will meet in "Critical
Friends Groups" to discuss instructional improvement during the school
year. To ensure permanence, a resource book will be published on SERVE's
website. Content focuses on the social history of the Civil War
Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period and the Making of the
African-American Identity, 1865-1915. Other content priorities are the
Gilded Age and America since World War II.

#### Nebraska

**Grantee: Omaha Public Schools, Omaha, NE**

**Project Name: Teaching American History: The Omaha Project**

**Project Director: Susan Toohey (402) 557-2346**

**Funding: \$950,345**

**Number of Teachers Served: 160**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Partners include the Nebraska Department of Education, The University of
Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Creighton
University, the Library of Congress, the Nebraska State Historical
Society (NCHS), Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, and the
Strategic Air and Space Museum. Professional development is provided to
teachers of grades 5, 8, and 9 through a series of seminars, workshops,
presentations, consultations, and the creation of a vast electronic
lesson plan library. Seminars parallel Omaha school curriculum sections,
as follows: America prior to Columbus, the colonial period to the
framing of the Constitution, the Constitution to the Jacksonian era, the
Jacksonian period to the outbreak of the Civil War, the Civil War to the
Gilded Age, the Gilded Age to the outbreak of World War II, World War II
through the beginning of the cold War, the 1960s, the 1970s to the
present. NCHS conducts four annual workshops on: The Homestead Act,
William Jennings Bryan, and accessing the NSHS online collections (two
workshops). Library of Congress workshops are conducted as
videoconferences (four).

#### New Jersey

**Grantee: North Plainfield Borough School District, North Plainfield,
NJ**

**Project Name: James Madison Seminar on Teaching American History**

**Project Director: Bradford Wilson (609) 683-7878**

**Funding: \$839,808**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 45**

**Number of School Districts Served: 10**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Middle and high school teachers of American History will engage in a
3-year professional development program aimed at building content
knowledge and pedagogical skills through school district collaboration
with Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and
Institutions, National Association of Scholars in Princeton,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Princeton String Quartet. The Laboratory
for Student Success, Temple University, will evaluate project
effectiveness. Year 1 emphasizes ideas and events surrounding the
American Revolution and U.S. Constitution in a 2-week summer residential
seminar followed by four meetings during the school year. Year 2's
seminar and meetings focus on the Secession Crisis and Civil War. Year
3's seminar and meetings address 20^th^ and 21^st^ Century conflicts
accompanying Civil Rights and Supreme Court jurisprudence. An
interactive website will be created to share historic documents and
lesson plans.

#### New York

**Grantee: Community School District 23, Brooklyn, NY**

**Project Name: Connecting Young Americans to the Past: Looking beyond
the Neighborhood and to the Nation**

**Project Director: Dr. Joseph Nwabueze (718) 380-2422**

**Funding: \$874,897**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This professional development project for 60 teachers of grade 4 and 60
teachers of grades 7 and 8 is a national model designed to energize the
study of American history by connecting it to compelling, real-life
examples of national events played out on the local level. Each year is
divided into four-month cycles, during which 20 teachers are immersed in
on intensive professional development program. Two summer institutes
provide content for grade 4 teachers that includes: Native Americans of
New York State, the European Encounter, Three Worlds of Europe, Africa,
and America Meet in the Americas, Colonial and Revolutionary War
periods. Grade 7 and 8 teachers study the content of the New York State
Social Studies Core Curriculum. Partners include the Brooklyn Historical
Society, Columbia University Teachers College, and the Gotham Center for
New York City History.

**Grantee: New York City Department of Education-citywide, New York,
NY**

**Project Name: American Journey: From Staff Development to Student
Achievement in the Study of American History**

**Project Director: Helen Santiago (212) 374-3831**

**Funding: \$1,931,284**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 100**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The foundation of American Journey is two summer institutes for 100 less
experienced 3^rd^ to 8^th^ grade teachers selected from all ten regions
of the city along with Fellows sessions for selected middle school
teachers throughout the school year. Institutes taught by historians
take place at historic sites in each borough. A web-based History
Education Network will serve grade K-12 teachers to disseminate history
instruction resources. Partnering with the LEA, which serves 1.2 million
students, are Gotham Center of City University of New York, City Lore,
Historic House Trust, Henry Street Settlement, Brooklyn Historical
Society, New York Historical Society, and other museums and historical
societies. Content covers American Revolution and Constitution, Civil
War and Reconstruction, Great Depression and World War II, Immigration
and Migration.

**Grantee: New York City Department of Education, Region 2, New York,
NY**

**Project Name: Telling America's Story**

**Project Director: Philip Panaritis (718) 828-4638**

**Funding: \$990,000**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 385**

**Number of School Districts Served: 0**

**Number of Students Served: 50,000**

Telling America's Story aims to create a seamless system of American
History teaching in Region 2's 53 middle and high schools. Partners in
the 3-year program of institutes, colloquia, lectures, mini-sessions,
and study groups include City University of New York, Lehman College's
History and Education Departments, New York University's Horowitz Center
for Teacher Development, and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History. All American History educators in the Region receive a pass
enabling them to use the resources New York City museums and cultural
organizations for the life of the grant. Under the program, 80
teacher-historians in grades 7, 8 and 11 seeded throughout all schools
receive intensive professional development to become master teachers who
can provide support for colleagues. Their institute topics cover: the
Constitution and U.S. Foreign Relations---Federalist Papers, Monroe
Doctrine, Expansion, Sectionalism, Civil War, World Wars I and II, Cold
War; history of freedom and liberties---17^th^ and 18^th^ Centuries; and
history of democracy in the U.S. An additional 305 U.S. History teachers
and History assistant principals participate in lectures, discussion
groups, and forums and use the documentary resources of Gilder Lehrman
Institute. Other committed partners include N-NYHS, Museum of the City
of New York, Museum of Radio and Television, Museum of Chinese in the
Americas, Guggenheim Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx Historical
Society, Poe Cottage, Museum of Jewish Heritage, and Van Cortlandt House
Museum.

# Grantee: New York City Department of Education, Region 7, New York, NY

**Project Name: James Madison Seminar on Teaching American History**

**Project Director: Bradford P. Wilson (608) 683-0316**

**Funding: \$839,808**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 135**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This program brings together Princeton University's James Madison
Program in American Ideals and Institutions and National Association of
Scholars with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Princeton String
Quartet in a three**-**year effort designed to improve pedagogical
skills of intermediate and high school American History teachers. The
program includes two-week summer residential seminars and four half-days
of professional development during the year focusing first on the
American Revolution and U.S. Constitution, secondly on the secession
crisis and Civil War, and thirdly on 20^th^ and 21^st^ century
constitutional and cultural conflicts accompanying the Civil Rights
revolution and Supreme Court jurisprudence. An interactive website and
lesson plans supplement assistance to teachers in guiding students. The
Laboratory for Student Success will evaluate the project, and teachers
may receive professional development credit from Ashland University in
Ohio.

**Grantee: New York City Department of Education, Region 7, New York,
NY**

Project Name: Historians and Teachers: A Partnership to Improve
Knowledge, Teaching, and Learning in American History

**Project Director: Dr. Fran Macko (718)-420-5693**

**Funding: \$993,770**

**Number of Teachers Served: 96**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 12,000**

The project engages middle school (16 each year) and high school (16
each year), American history teachers in a 3-year professional
development program designed and run in conjunction with the American
Social History Project at the City University of New York. Other
partners include the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum of
Art, and Educational Development Corporation. The project provides: five
day-long retreats during one school year in which historians lead
participants in the study of major events and themes in the U.S. History
survey; a week-long summer institute in which groups of participants
develop document-based curriculum units on topics covered during the
retreats; school-year inter-visitations where teachers carry out and
refine their curriculum units; and pre- and post-project evaluation data
to help the teachers and the district improve instructional practice,
student achievement, and assessment-based curriculum design. Each year,
in the retreats and summer institutes, each of three successive cohorts
take in the full chronological sweep of American history by focusing on
a different overarching theme---democracy, becoming American, or America
and the world. In addition, to cultivate school-site support and
leadership for the project and its teachers, the project provides
intensive training services to 24 social studies assistant principals,
who in turn spread the insights and resources of the project to all
American history teachers within the district.

**Grantee: Salmon River Central School District, Fort Covington, NY**

**Project Name: American History through Hotinon shonni Eyes**

**Project Director: Annemarie Fitz Randolf (518) 358-6669**

**Funding: \$736,731**

**Number of Teachers Served: 25**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Partnering with the Akwesasne Cultural Center and St. Lawrence
University, the project convenes three summer professional development
institutes and two mid-winter weekend retreats for teachers of 4^th^ and
11^th^ grade American history. The project gives the Hotinonshonni
historical perspective, which enables teachers and students to
understand how the Native American cultural traditions complement rather
than conflict with traditional views of American history. Teachers are
recruited from 16 reservation and contracting schools in New York State.
Three main themes are: principles shared among the Iroquois and founders
of the U.S.A. and their influences on the form taken by the government
of the U.S.A.; episodes throughout our history that have tested and have
reinforced or betrayed those founding principles; and recent history as
it reflects on our hopes for the future.

#### Ohio

**Grantee: Hamilton City School District, Hamilton, OH**

**Project Name: America's Journey: The Quest for Freedom, 1492-1836**

**Project Director: Everett C. Mann (513) 887-5000**

**Funding: \$731,631**

**Number of Teachers Served: 78**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This partnership for teachers in grades 5 and 8 brings together the
school district, Miami University-Hamilton, Lane Libraries, and Michael
J. Colligan History Project to develop, document, evaluate, and
disseminate innovative models of professional development for American
History teachers in grades 5 and 8 through 5-day summer institutes, four
1-day seminars during the school year, a multimedia history resource on
DVD, a website, and 2-day regional U.S. History conference. The program
examines the tenets of freedom and a democracy, including the Age of
Exploration, Native Americans and the Trail of Tears, Continental
Congress and American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana
Purchase, Slavery, and Women's Rights. Readings, lectures, creation of
lesson plans, use of primary documents and multimedia resources, and
site visits enhance the program.

**Grantee: Mahoning County Educational Service Center, Youngstown, OH**

**Project Name: Teaching American History**

**Project Director: Barbara Williams (330) 965-7828**

**Funding: \$790,115**

**Number of Teachers Served: 108**

**Number of School Districts Served: 14**

**Number of Students Served: 15,000**

Partnering in this collaboration with school districts to improve
educators' understanding of American history and instructional skills
are Youngstown State University, National Council for History Education,
Mahoning Valley Museum Collaborative, and Mahoning Valley Historical
Society. Each of the three project years, teachers in grades 8-12 in 32
buildings of Youngstown, Struthers, Campbell City and Mahoning County
schools will be selected to participate in 5-day extended summer history
colloquia, 5-day coursework in teaching content reading, workshops, an
assessment workshop, technology workshop, and study groups that meet
five times during the school year to address U.S. History content
following the mandates of Ohio state law: at the K-8 level, exploration
through 1877; and at the grade 9-10 level, 1877 to the present. Topics
include Westward expansion, transportation and communication, iron and
steel industry, Industrial Revolution, immigration, African Americans
and Civil Rights, educational and social reform, and role of the
Mahoning Valley in war.

**Grantee: Montgomery County Educational Service Center, Dayton, OH**

**Project Name: Miami Valley Teaching American History Project**

**Project Director: Margaret Stevens (937) 225-4598**

**Funding: \$664,690**

**Number of Teachers Served: 40**

**Number of School Districts Served: 5**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Teachers of grades 5, 8, 9, 10, and 12 receive professional development
in this project, which partners with Wright State University, Greater
Dayton Public Television, Montgomery County Historical Society, the
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Dayton Aviation
Heritage National Historic Park, the U.S. Air Force Museum, and the
National Afro American Museum. The focus is on four historical themes:
the meaning of freedom (colonial period to the present, including the
story of the Underground Railroad); taking a stand in history (a
National History Day that highlights stories of individuals and groups
throughout history); encounter, exploration, and exchange (a National
History Day theme that encourages examination of encounters and
exchanges among peoples and cultures); and making progress (analyzes the
meaning of progress in regional and national history). These themes are
presented in summer institutes---year 1, Making Progress: Living and
Working in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890-1929; year 2, Biography in American
History; year 3, the Meaning of Freedom. In addition, teachers can
participate in a training program on the Western Ohio Educational
Association professional development day in October.

#### Oklahoma

**Grantee: El Reno Public Schools, El Reno, OK**

**Project Name: Project SHAPE: Study History to Achieve Peace and
Equality**

**Project Director: Dr. Lisa Horn (405) 262-1703**

**Funding: \$378,025**

**Number of Teachers Served: 16**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 1,822**

For teachers of grades 5-12, professional development in this project
focuses on Colonial America, pioneers, Indian removal, the Civil War,
the Industrial Revolution, the Gilded Age, World War II (including
Japanese internment and the Holocaust), Baby Boomers, technology, the
21^st^ century. Four teachers per summer observe historic sites and
documents first-hand, such as colonial New England and the South. Once
per month a seminar is convened. Peer observation of classroom
instruction, mentoring, team teaching, multicultural education,
networking, and national teacher certification supplement the
content-focused instruction. Partners are Oklahoma State University
Department of History, Oklahoma Humanities Council, Oklahoma Historical
Society, Canadian County Historical museum, Historic Fort Reno, Inc.,
and the Cheyenne-Arapaho Nation of Oklahoma.

**Grantee: Osage County Interlocal Cooperative, Hominy, OK**

**Project Name: Project CLIO (Collaboration for Literacy in Our
History)**

**Project Director: Susan Frazier (918) 885-2667**

**Funding: \$579,787**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 42**

**Number of School Districts Served: 11**

**Number of Students Served: 2,168**

Under the Latin name for the Greek Muse of History, *CLIO*, in
collaboration with Northeastern State University's (NSU) History
Department, local museums and historic sites, will provide professional
development and dissemination/instructional improvement in American
history to 11 school districts in five low-income, isolated counties in
northern Oklahoma. Through summer institutes, workshops, classroom
visits, mentoring, electronic networking, museum and site-based
seminars, conferences, research, and development of lesson plans,
teachers in grades 4-5 and 7-12 cover Early Exploration, Colonial
America, American Revolution, Early Federal Period, Jacksonian Era,
Civil War, Industrial Revolution Imperialism, Great Depression, World
War II and the Cold War. Grade 4-5 and 7-8 teachers focus on the period
1607-1877; grades 9-12 focus on 1850-1990 events. With extensive
experience in courses for Native American students, NSU offers expertise
to districts having 48 different nations and tribes.

**Grantee: Poteau Independent School District, 1-29, Poteau, OK**

**Project Name: ECHO Project: American Voices Resounding Anew**

> **Project Director: Rick Peters (918) 647-7700**

**Funding: \$468,055**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 15**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 1,822**

Located in the heart of the Choctaw Nation, the Poteau Public Schools
ECHO professional development project serves K-12 grade students living
in an impoverished and isolated area. More than 650 students in grades
5, 8, 10, and 11 receive direct services in American History classes,
with students in 6, 7, 9, and 12 benefiting from team teaching, and
grades 4-12 receiving History Alive! presentations. All participate
through the digital classroom, virtual field trips, primary research,
films, Living History presenters, museum exhibits, and student
productions. Building on history as "story," the project focuses on
Westward Expansion and critical inquiry into how notions of Manifest
Destiny collide. All American History teachers participate in fall and
spring two-day workshops, a three-day summer symposium, and development
of a vertically aligned, research-driven curriculum incorporating
primary sources, historical debate, and diverse learning styles. Summer
immersion/research teams travel to New England for research on colonial
issues and the former home of the "Five Civilized Tribes" and to the
Southeast for research on sites of interest to students. Teachers also
engage in seminars, peer observation and team teaching; with at least 25
percent receiving certification in American History. Partners include
University of Oklahoma Department of History, Oklahoma Humanities
Council. Fort Smith Museum of History, Oklahoma Historical Society,
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Will Rogers
Memorial, and Overstreet-Kerr Historical Farm.

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#### Oregon

**Grantee: Southern Oregon Education Service District, Medford, OR**

**Project Name: Southern Oregon American Legacy Project**

Project Director: Joe Peterson (541) 776-6771

**Funding: \$935,945**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 13**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The American Legacy Project serves school districts having 52,000
students and 3,000 educators in a 10,000 square mile area. Through
summer institutes, seminars, graduate history courses, mentoring, online
courses, video conferencing, and mini-grants, the program addresses
needs for a comprehensive and coherent American History curriculum,
professional development for rural educators, and assessment tools to
measure student performance. Participants include 75 middle and high
school teachers and 45 pre-service teachers who explore with historians
and mentors the Constitutional Convention, Lewis and Clark, Westward
Migration, European Migration, Jacksonian Democracy, Economic Life in
the South and North, Civil War, Reconstruction, Manifest Destiny,
Progressive Movement, Labor Movement, World War I and II, Great
Depression, Cultural Changes, and Oregon Statehood. Teachers Curriculum
Institute, Southern Oregon University, Southern Oregon Historical
Society, and Oregon On-Line School are partnering with the ESD.

#### Pennsylvania

**Grantee: Girard School District, Girard, PA**

**Project Name: Teaching the American Story**

**Project Director: Jamie Plaster (814) 734-8382**

**Funding: \$993,999**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 150**

**Number of School Districts Served: 4**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Teaching the American Story (TAS) initiative in northwestern
Pennsylvania is a collaborative effort between Girard School District,
Fort LeBoeuf School District, PENNCREST School District, Union City Area
School District, the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit #5, and
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. The project goals are (1) to
establish a network of highly skilled, highly trained, master teachers
who will share their knowledge of traditional U.S. history with fellow
educators, so that the TAS initiative may be sustained throughout and
beyond the grant program and infused into the Pennsylvania educational
induction and service training systems; and (2) to ensure that
northwestern Pennsylvania teachers and administrators have the skills,
knowledge and abilities to teach (and understand the importance of
teaching) U.S. history as a separate academic subject and as a core
learning theme that can be integrated and infused into many learning
mediums and opportunities. Teachers will complete 48 hours of training
in intensive summer institutes, and will participate in follow-up
training to be delivered online. Summer institute content will cover key
themes of American freedom including history of war and immigration and
freedom of religion; American rights and dreams; and American pride
including monuments and meaning. As a result of the staff development
provided through the grant, northwestern Pennsylvania teachers will
demonstrate higher levels of knowledge and instructional best practices
in U.S. History as demonstrated by the posting of at least 75 exemplary
standards-based instructional plans to the Web. The project is also
creating a copyright-cleared \"digital database\" that will include
digital images and digital video footage that relates to American
History. These images will be captured while participating teachers are
visiting historical, national sites. This digital material will be
available for anyone to access via the Web site.

**Grantee:** **Greencastle Antrim School District, Greencastle, PA**

**Project Name: Who is the American: This New Man, This New Woman?**

**Project Director: Michael Meir**

**Funding: \$725,545**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 93**

**Number of School Districts Served: 5**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Located in rural Franklin County, "Civil War country," this professional
development project partners five school districts and the state-owned
Scotland School for Veterans Children with National Council for History
Education, Facing History and Ourselves, and Center for Learning and
Media-New Media Classroom. Through intensive summer colloquia and
institutes, all middle and high school history and social studies
teachers will explore with historians 18^th,^ 19^th^, and 20^th^ Century
America---from colonial times to the Civil Rights Movement. Spring and
fall one-day workshops focus on Ida B. Wells as a case study of ordinary
people in American history and "Becoming American." Four Saturday book
discussion groups take place along with training in educational
technology aimed at revitalizing American History teaching.

**Grantee: Ridgway Area School District, Ridgway, PA**

**Project Name: Project TEACH (Teaching Educators America's Critical
History)**

**Project Director: Robert Weible (717) 783-9867**

**Funding: \$985,190**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 1,763**

**Number of School Districts Served:**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Project TEACH addresses teachers' needs statewide for increased U.S.
history content knowledge, access to historical source, and teaching
skills in a joint undertaking of the LEA with Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission, Pennsylvania Historical Association, Pennsylvania
Public Television Network, and Millersville and West Chester
Universities. The project expands an ongoing collaboration under a 2001
TAH award, and contributes to meeting new state policy and practice
standards. Activities include content-focused immersion provided to 63
master teachers by pairing them with historians during all three years,
summer institutes, professional development workshops for an additional
1,700 U.S. History teachers, and web outreach with products and
resources to approximately 2,000 teachers of American History across the
state. Topics include: Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. Constitution, the
Great Depression, the New Deal, women in politics, George Washington in
the French and Indian War, Whiskey Rebellion, War of 1812, immigration,
religious communities, Native Americans, urbanization, invention,
Industrial Revolution, American culture, medicine, the underground
railroad, Lewis and Clark, Civil Rights, railroads, and environment.

**Grantee: The School District of Philadelphia**

**Project Name: United yet Divided: Late 18^th^ and 19^th^ Century
American Democracy**

**Project Director: Melvin E. Garrison (215) 299-7480**

**Funding: \$847,450**

**Number of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Teachers of grades 5, 8, 11, and 12 receive professional development in
four components: seven 5-hour Saturday symposia, a 3-week summer
institute, monthly meetings, and a teachers' network. The project offers
a historical construct for examining the key five interlocking elements
of American Republicanism. Year 1 covers the Promise of the Revolution,
1776-1800; year 2, Building the New Democracy, 1800-1850; year 3,
Divided Politics and Civil Conflicts, 1850-1900. Partners include the
National Archives Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, the Atwater Kent Museum
of Philadelphia, the National Constitution Center, the McNeil Center for
Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and
Independence National Historical Park.

#### South Carolina

**Grantee: District One Schools of Spartanburg County, Campobello, SC**

**Project Name: Teaching American History Project**

**Project Director Ann Greene (864) 472-2846**

**Funding: \$287,916**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 85**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This professional development in American History project involves all
teachers of history in District One's grades 3-12, with additional
participation in some activities by other history teachers in other
districts. It responds to a priority need expressed by 90% of 80
teachers surveyed. Designed to dovetail with the district's Vertical
Teaming initiative in which consecutive grade-level teachers structure
course content to prevent duplication, the project offers three American
History courses for graduate credit, one technology-based course, two
ten-day and three three-day institutes, observations of exemplary
history teachers, consultations with master scholars, site visits,
networking through participation in professional historical association,
individual subscriptions to professional literature, and establishment
of a website for instructional materials. Partnering with the District
are the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg's History and
Education Departments and Spartanburg County Historical Association.
Content will focus on periods of American history emphasizing key
documents and associated events and individuals. Two sections of an
American History Documents course will be offered at each high school
each semester.

**Grantee: Sumter County School District Two, Sumter, SC**

**Project Name: Using Our History to Guide Our Future**

**Project Director: Dr. Judy Newman (803) 469-6900**

**Funding: \$719,784**

**Number of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 9,300**

This project trains teachers during two-week summer sessions, creates
mentoring relationships during the year, and develops sustainable
methods to carry on student learning. Summer institutes develop content
knowledge and instruction in American history, which is taught in grades
3, 8, and 11. Of the 25 teachers who participate each year, 5 serve as
mentors for the others. Each year, the summer institute focuses on a
different period---the early years, 19^th^ century, and 20^th^
century---and person-centered themes---including, Native Americans, Mary
Rowlandson and frontier families, Benjamin Franklin and the fight for
independence, Thomas Jefferson and republicanism, Frederick Douglass and
slavery, Abraham Lincoln and preserving the union, Susan B. Anthony and
woman suffrage, Theodore Roosevelt and conservation, Franklin Roosevelt
and the New Deal, Eleanor Roosevelt and human rights, Martin Luther King
and the fall of Jim Crow. The school district's partner is the Sumter
County Museum.

**Grantee: Winthrop Olde English Consortium, Rock Hill, SC**

**Project Name: Teaching American History**

**Project Director: Agnes Love (803) 581-9533**

**Funding: \$478,502**

**Number of Teachers Served: 150**

**Number of School Districts Served: 7**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This consortium made up of Winthrop University and seven school
districts in four counties aims to examine the importance of and improve
American History instruction by teachers in grades 4, 5, 8, and 11.
Annual summer institutes focus in year 1 on American beginnings to 1877,
in year 2 on 1877 to the present, and in year 3 on "vertical
articulation from beginnings to present," a thematic study of American
history. Quarterly follow-up sessions are held at local historic sites
including Historic Brattonsville, Andrew Jackson State Park, Catawba
Indian Nation, Cornwallis House, and Mount Dearborn Military
Establishment. Partners are Winthrop University, University of South
Carolina, local country libraries, and local historic commissions in
each county. The professional development program emphasizes
technological resources, lesson plan development, and curriculum
alignment teams to establish professional networks. A steering committee
representing districts in this Piedmont area of South Carolina will help
guide the project, attend segments of summer institutes and historic
site visits, and coordinate virtual field trips for history teachers.

#### Tennessee

**Grantee: Loudon County Schools, Loudon, TN**

Project Name: Teaching American History: Tennessee River Valley
Consortium (TRVC)

Project Director: Dr. Edward Headlee (865) 458-5411

**Funding: \$964,297**

**Number of Teachers Served: No information available**

**Number of School Districts Served: 10**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The TRVC project is a series of eight, one-week summer institutes over a
3-year period. Each summer institute immerses teachers in the content
and teaching of American history in correspondence with the 10
historical eras outlined in the 2001 Tennessee curriculum framework, for
grades 4, 5, 8, and high school---namely, beginnings to 1619, 1585-1763;
1754-1820, 1801-1861; 1850-1877; 1870-1900; 1890-1930; 1929-1945;
1945-1970s; and contemporary America. In addition, follow-up, six-hour
teacher institutes are offered throughout the TRVC region during the
academic year. National History Day training workshops for 8^th^ grade
and high school teachers focus on themes and topics relevant to the
American history taught in the classroom. Special access to ongoing
lectures and seminars by historians are sponsored by educational and
cultural institutions throughout East Tennessee. Travel incentives are
given to encourage attendance and participation in national and
statewide conferences sponsored by professional organizations that
promote history. Lead teachers guide the grant in mentoring and team
building, and a TRVC website and teacher list serve are developed.
Project partners include the East Tennessee Historical Society and
Museum, the University of Tennessee Department of History, the
University of Tennessee Libraries, the Knox County Public Library's
Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, and various area historic sites
and museums.

**Grantee: Wilson County School System, Lebanon, TN**

**Project Name: Teaching American History: Upper Middle Tennessee
History Consortium**

**Project Director: Carole Bucy (615) 230-3555**

**Funding: \$763,617**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 12**

**Number of Students Served: 72,000**

As the LEA for 135 rural schools in the consortium, Wilson County
Schools will partner with Volunteer State Community College to provide
teacher training and a website and with Tennessee State University to
provide graduate credit for teachers in grades 4, 5, 8 and high school.
Additional collaborators in this professional development effort to
improve American history instruction include Tennessee Historical
Society, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee State Museum,
Close Up Foundation, and Country Music Hall of Fame. Six one-week summer
institutes will yearly immerse different groups of participants in the
use of primary materials, local history resources and history technology
instruction, and participants in years 1-2 will mentor peers. The
project includes a seminar held in conjunction with Tennessee Conference
of Historians and workshops on integrating National History Day
programming into the curriculum. Topics include the American Revolution,
Constitution and Early Republic, Market Revolution, Reconstruction,
Westward Expansion, Emergence of Modern America, Emergence of America as
a World Power, Great Depression, Civil Rights, and World War II.

#### Texas

**Grantee: Alpine Independent School District, Alpine, TX**

**Project Name: Teaching American History Grant Program**

**Project Director: Sheri Miller (432) 837-7700**

**Funding: \$878,867**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 25**

**Number of School Districts Served: 8**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Serving the geographically isolated and economically distressed area of
Big Bend in West Texas, the LEA is partnering with seven other school
districts, Sul Ross State University (SRSU), Museum of the Big Bend,
Alpine Public Library, Brewster County Historical Commission, and
EbigBend Community Network to increase U.S. history content knowledge
and teaching skills of teachers in grades 5, 8, and 11. The professional
development program enrolls 18 American History teachers in SRSU to
obtain a Master's degree in History through 24 courses with a thesis or
a 326-course over the three-year grant period. One teacher from each
district is designated as the district's American History Mentor
responsible for facilitating the program with the project director, and
all participants become mentors. All 25 American History teachers in the
8 school districts participate in eight days of seminars, four days of
technology training, and four days of pedagogical training per year.
Content addresses: the colonial period, American Revolution, westward
migration, Civil War, immigration, industrialization, World Wars I and
II, American west, Mexican American history, and ranching frontier in
American history.

**Grantee: Education Service Center Region 12, Waco, TX**

**Project Name: Crossroads in American History**

**Project Director: Joan Berry (254) 297-1113**

**Funding: \$924,714**

**Number of Teachers Served: 150**

**Number of School Districts Served: 7**

**Number of Students Served: 20,749**

The project provides professional development for K-12 teachers through
3-week summer institutes. Each summer 50 teachers follow three major
themes throughout American history: Crossroads and American Lives,
Crossroads and Urbanization, and Crossroads and Military History. The
first year addresses these themes in the context of national history; in
years 2 and 3, the emphasis addresses the intersection of national
history with local and global perspectives. Partners for the project are
Baylor University, University of Texas Center for American History, the
Texas Collection at Baylor University, the Historic Waco Foundation, the
Baylor University Institute for Oral History, the Harold B. Simpson
History Center, and the Czech Heritage Museum.

**Grantee: Education Service Center, Region 2, Corpus Christi, TX**

**Project Name: An Integrated Approach to Teaching American History**

**Project Director: Stephen VanMatre (361) 883-3442**

**Funding: \$965,650**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 42**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The project offers professional development in American history to
teachers of social studies or U.S. history in grades 4, 5, 7, 8, and 11.
Participants are organized into four, grade-specific cohorts (grades 4
and 7; grade 5; grade 8; and grade 11). The cohorts are aligned with the
Texas-mandated U.S. history curriculum---grade 4 is taught the history
of Texas from early beginnings; grade 5, colonial times through the
20^th^ century; grade 7, history of Texas from early times to the
present; grade 8, U.S. history from exploration to reconstruction; and
grade 11, U.S. history since reconstruction. The project offers four
3-day, integrated summer colloquia; each summer the Institutes on the
Founding Documents conducts a 5-day training session under the auspices
of the State Bar of Texas, the Hatton Sumners Foundation, and Law
Focused Education, Inc. During the school year, as an extension of the
summer colloquia, KAU days provide integrated in-depth follow-up
professional development. The American History Content Enrichment
Lecture Series of four lectures is held each year. Following the lecture
series, 20 veteran U.S. history or social studies teachers' team with 20
beginning teachers of the same grade level for approximately a half day
of mentoring. Share Fair is a daylong activity to demonstrate exemplary
history teaching strategies; it occurs in the spring of the second and
third years of the project. Project Website provides two teachers each
year an opportunity to learn how to develop and maintain the website.
This project involves collaboration of nine partners: Corpus Christi
Museum of Science and History, Del Mar College, Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi, Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, State Bar of
Texas, and USS Lexington Museum.

**Grantee: Education Service Center, Region 13, Austin, TX**

**Project Name: Scholars in History Incorporating Primary Sources**

**Project Director: Nancy K. Hester (512) 919-5425**

**Funding: \$965,946**

**Number of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 60**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This project provides teachers of grades 5, 8, and 11 with a 3-year
series of 10-day summer institutes, supplemented by videoconferences and
workshops during the school year. Year 1 covers: the Age of Exploration,
the Constitution, slavery and civil rights, the American dream, reform
movements, and oil, war and security. Year 2 covers: colonial America,
Lincoln and the Civil War; economics; women in modern America; human
rights and justice in the 20^th^ century, and World War II. Partners
are: Region XIII Education Service Center, College of Liberal Arts,
University of Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Harry Ransom Center,
and Center for American Studies.

**Grantee: Hays Consolidated Independent School District, Kyle, TX**

**Project Name: Teaching American History Collaboration**

**Project Director: Betty Harrison (512) 268-2141**

**Funding: \$760,224**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 8,600**

This project is to improve teaching American History as a separate
subject by teachers in grades 5, 8, 10, and 11 includes adoption of the
History Alive! Curriculum, weeklong summer institutes at Southwest Texas
State University (the primary partner), immersion experiences, monthly
professional development days, and ongoing coaching. Summer institutes
cover American history periods: 1500 to 1763, 1763 to 1877, and 1877 to
present; and themes (one for each day of the week) are: political and
governmental, socioeconomic, cultural, legal and Constitutional,
immersion (visit to a historic site).

**Grantee: Houston Independent School District, Houston, TX**

**Project Name: Houston Partnership for Teachers as
Historians---Teaching American History (TAH^2^)**

**Project Director: Ada Cooper (713) 892-6818**

**Funding: \$999,809**

# Numbers of Teachers Served: 80

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 100,000**

As a result of this collaboration with University of Houston and Rice
University, 30 high schools and 50 middle schools will acquire
teacher-historians who, in turn, will mentor and coach 600 history
teacher colleagues to increase mastery and appreciation of American
history. Teachers in grades 7, 8, 10 and 11 participate in summer
institutes, online projects, study groups, technology/media presentation
development (a regular "Making History" TV show), and History Alive!
Colloquia, open to all history teachers in the district. In keeping with
the district's CLEAR initiative to "clarify learning" by aligning
curriculum with fundamental skills required by state standards,
elementary and middle school teachers focus on Early American History to
1876 and high school teachers on U.S. History Since Reconstruction.
Other partners include Houston A+ Challenge, Museum of Fine Arts,
Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Public Library's Texas Room and
Clayton Library for Genealogy Research.

**Grantee: La Joya Independent School District, La Joya, TX**

**Project Name: Teaching Traditional American History: A South Texas
Perspective**

**Project Director: Dagoberto Ramirez (956) 580-6120**

**Funding: \$988,688**

**Number of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served:**

Teachers of grades 5, 8, 10, and 11 receive content-based staff
development opportunities through 5-day American History Academies,
masters-level history courses, hands-on sessions using primary sources,
technology-based training, and experiential development at museums and
historic sites. Content focuses on, for example, The American
Revolution, the Constitution, landmark laws and civil rights, the Bill
of Rights, industrialization, and economics, including the Great
Depression and the New Deal. Partners include: the University of Texas
Pan-American History Department, Plymouth Plantation, American
Independent Museum, Old Sturbridge Village, Museum of South Texas
History.

**Grantee: Region 16 Education Service Center, Amarillo, TX**

**Project Name: Panhandle Area Collaborative for Excellence in
Teaching**

> **American History**

**Project Director: Danna Beck (806) 677-5184**

**Funding: \$965,443**

**Number of Teachers Served: No information available**

**Number of School Districts Served: 63**

**Number of Students Served: 78,000**

In collaboration with West Texas A&M University, Panhandle-Plains
Historical Museum, The Law Related Education Department of the State Bar
of Texas, the Bill of Rights Institute, the Organization of American
Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program, and the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation, this project provides ongoing and intensive
staff development. Professional development is divided into three areas:
content-specific training, technology integration of curriculum, and
mentorship. Content for year 1 discusses The Founding Era (1750-1800),
the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence; year 2,
Reconstruction and Industrialization (1870-1920), landmark Supreme Court
cases, and the Bill of Rights; year 3, Cold War America (1945-1960),
Federalism from the Founders to the Rehnquist Court, and Supreme Court
cases.

**Grantee: Region I Education Service Center, Edinburg, TX**

**Project Name: Traditional American History Past and Present**

**Project Director: Tina Atkins (956) 984-6220**

**Funding: \$960,582**

**Number of Teachers Served: 450**

**Number of School Districts Served: 10**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with the University of Texas-Pan American, Plimoth
Plantation, ABC-Clio, and the Brownsville Historical Museum, this
project provides professional development to teachers of grades 5, 8,
10, and 11 through a 5-day summer institute followed by mentoring, 3-day
academies twice in the year, technical assistance for Internet access
and use, and development of six mobile American history trunks. Content
covers the Colonial Period, the American Revolution, the New Nation, and
the Civil War.

#### Utah

**Grantee: Jordan School District, Sandy, UT**

**Project Name: Jordan History Academy of Teachers**

**Project Director: Pam Su'a (801) 567-8320**

**Funding: \$913,198**

**Number of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

For this project for professional development of 4^th^ to 12^th^ grade
teachers, content training focuses on significant issues, episodes, and
turning points, such as constitutional politics, human and civil rights,
war and society, race and slavery, diversity, and Utah history. Teachers
also learn to think historically and to integrate history content with
appropriate pedagogy to develop curricula and use innovative methods. In
year 1, a cohort of 30 teachers complete 6 weeks of summer training.
During years 2 and 3, history teacher leaders provide model professional
development in their schools. Each year training is supplemented by
quarterly workshops, classroom observations and lesson plan evaluations,
and coaching and mentoring. Content areas cover early American history,
20^th^ century American history, the American West, the Civil War,
slavery, citizenship, and the Constitution; best practices include
curriculum design, moral dimensions of teaching, framework for teaching,
and writing. Partners include Utah Humanities Council, Utah Law-Related
Education Project, Utah Council of Social Studies, and Utah Academy of
Teachers.

**Grantee: Southeast Education Service Center, Price, UT**

**Project Name: Tri-State History Consortium**

**Project Director: F. Lynn Bills (435) 637-1173**

**Funding: \$260,158**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

# Number of Students Served: No information available

This project brings together three districts in Utah, Montana, and
Washington in a long-term professional development effort designed to
improve teacher knowledge of U.S. history and skills in engaging
students. Six teachers from grades 5-12 in each LEA will be nominated to
become master teachers of American History through a yearly 10-week
on-line graduate credit course, yearly 10-week action research course,
and yearly summer workshop in which 30 teachers from each LEA
participate. Use of the MyEDesk software will facilitate building an
American History learning community across 3 states. Content driven by
the National Council for History Education covers three worlds and their
encounters in America, colonial era, creating a nation, expansion and
reform, Civil War and Reconstruction, making of modern America, U.S. and
two World Wars, and contemporary America. Participating history
professors are from Western Washington University, Princeton University,
Washington University in St. Louis, Reed College, Dartmouth University,
Oklahoma University, University of Richmond, and Kalamazoo College.

#### Virginia

**Grantee: Alexandria City Public Schools, Alexandria, VA**

**Project Name: Creating a More Perfect Community: Improving the
Teaching of Traditional American History in Alexandria, Virginia**

**Project Director: Judy McConville (703) 824-6680**

**Funding: \$949,295**

**Number of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: 12,000**

Partners for this project are the Department of History and the Center
for History and New Media at George Mason University, and the Office of
Historic Alexandria. They organize intensive workshops that unite
Alexandria's American history teachers with university and public
historians to improve teachers' content knowledge. Teachers are drawn
from high need classrooms, including elementary, middle school, high
school, ESL, and special education. Each year professional development
will be offered in: a one-week summer workshop, six full-day workshops
during the school year, four history book discussions, work with master
teachers, online discussions, and development of curriculum units. Four
periods are covered---Early America, Civil War and Reconstruction, the
Interwar Years (1914-1945), and Post-World War II.

**Grantee: Augusta County Public Schools, Fishersville, VA**

**Project Name: Institute for Decisive Events in American History**

**Project Director: Kenneth W. Keller (540) 887-7066**

**Funding: \$692,942**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: 4**

**Number of Students Served: 16,571**

This partnership to provide a comprehensive professional development
program for middle and high school American History teachers brings four
school districts together with Mary Baldwin College, George C. Marshall
Museum and Library, Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation, Appomattox
Court House National Historical Park, Monticello, Booker T. Washington
Birthplace, and Yorktown Battlefield Park. Activities include two 6-week
summer institutes per year focused on decisive events in American
history, eight 2-day workshops per year reviewing practical
applications, creation of a website including documentary readings and
lesson plans, mentoring and networking with institutions of higher
education and museums. Periods covered by the institutes include:
Revolutionary Era, 1754-1783; Virginia Dynasty, 1800-1825; Civil War
Era, 1850-1865; Reconstruction, 1865-1877; Struggle for Women's Rights,
1848-1992; Domestic Policy and Politics, 1954-1973.

**Grantee: Chesterfield County Public Schools, Chesterfield, VA**

**Project Name: Teaching American History Project**

**Project Director: John T. Kneebone (804) 231-1774**

**Funding: \$675,694**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Partnering with the Virginia Historical Society, Jamestown Island,
Colonial Williamsburg, and the National Park Service, this project
provides professional development for teachers of 6^th^, 7^th^, and
11^th^ grade U.S. history. Each year's institute consists of a series of
2-day seminars during the school year and a 2-week summer institute.
Content includes: Virginia history, expansion and reform, Civil War and
Reconstruction, urbanization and industrialization, contradictions of
reform, Depression and the New Deal, hot and cold wars, Civil Rights
Movement, and post-Y2K.

**Grantee: Fauquier County Public Schools, Warrenton, VA**

**Project Name: Peopling the American Past: Focusing on Key Individuals,
Events, and Documents in U.S. History**

**Project Director: Eleanor Greene (540) 351-1018**

**Funding: \$944,153**

## Number of Teachers Served: 75

**Number of School Districts Served: 7**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with the Department of History and the Center for History
and New Media at George Mason University, these rural school districts
offer American history teachers each year, a one-week summer workshop,
five full-day workshops, four history book discussions, and classroom
observations and peer mentoring as well as online discussion. The summer
workshop develops tools for historical analysis; GMU historians cover
four periods of U.S. history---Early America, Civil War and
Reconstruction, the interwar years (1914-1945), and post-World War II.
During the school year, the focus shifts to case studies of key people
and events. The five workshops center on such topics as Frederick
Douglass and slavery and Irish immigration. The four book groups---one
for each era---draw from classic autobiographies and biographies of
figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Eleanor
Roosevelt.

**Grantee: Hampton City Schools, Hampton, VA**

**Project Name: Cultivating Connections: Embedding Vital Themes in
American History**

**Project Director: Connie Abernathy (757) 727-2472**

**Funding: \$919,944**

**Number of Teachers Served: 93**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

The project provides professional development for teachers of grades 6,
7, and 11 divided into groups that participate in a series of four study
trips (Yorktown National Battlefield, Fredericksburg and Fredericksburg
National Park, Virginia Historical Society Museum, and Hampton History
Museum), a 3-day Writing History Academy, and a 5-day summer colloquium.
The theme "Revolution and Change from the 18^th^ Century to the 21^st^
Century" uses four focal points of American history: the American
Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement
(1950-1970). National parks and state and local museums, along with two
initiatives from the National Council of History Education provide
content expertise. Partners include Christopher Newport University, the
National Council of History Education, Virginia Historical Society,
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Fredericksburg National Military Park,
and Hampton History Museum.

**Grantee: Montgomery County Public Schools, Christiansburg, VA**

**Project Name: Montgomery County (VA) Schools' Teaching American**

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**Project Director: Melissa Matusevich (540) 381-6537**

**Funding: \$571,705**

## Number of Teachers Served: 40

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 9,100**

The project's professional development events and activities for K-12
teachers are: monthly seminars during the school year, summer academies,
mentoring, peer observation and team teaching, trips to the Virginia
historical Society, and involvement in the American History Database
System. Content includes the American Revolution, American Indians,
abolition, suffrage, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Great
Depression, civil rights, the Constitution, World War II, the Cold War,
national government, and state and local government. Partners are
Virginia Tech's Department of History and Education, Radford
University's Department of History, and the Virginia Historical Society.

**Grantee: Portsmouth City Public Schools, Portsmouth, VA**

**Project Name: Growing American History Teacher Scholars**

**Project Director: Daniel Lewis (757) 822-2556**

**Funding: \$975,418**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 73**

**Number of School Districts Served: 2**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In partnership with Tidewater Community College and Norfolk City Public
Schools, the LEA will create a corps of American History teacher
scholars from grades 4-7 and 9-11 in the Portsmouth and Norfolk school
districts, with one teacher selected from each elementary, middle, and
high school in the two systems---together serving an urban population of
53,000. The program includes annual 5-day summer academies on U.S.
history content, two annual 2-day workshops on community resources, site
visits, mentoring, and lecture series in fall and spring terms. Content
differing for grade-level teachers, covers Age of Revolutions,
African-American Experience in Hampton Roads and Virginia, World Wars I
and II, The Cold War, Vietnam Conflict, naval and tribal and regional
history. Sustainability is addressed through continuing in-service
sessions and by using new teacher-scholars as mentors and coaches for
other teachers.

**Grantee: Rockbridge County Public Schools, Lexington City, VA**

**Project Name: Yes, Virginia, History is Elementary**

Project Director: Alice M. Waddell (540) 463-7386

**Funding: \$574,126**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 70-108**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: 3,633**

"Yes, Virginia, History is Elementary" partners a rural division in the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with George C. Marshall Foundation,
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, and
James Madison University to improve all elementary teachers' content
knowledge of American History, increase student achievement, develop
lead teachers in grades 4 and 5 for sustainability, and create a
transferable model program. Neighboring school divisions---Lexington and
Buena Vista---participate as space permits. Strategies include content
workshops, weekend seminars, intensive summer field study, site visits,
research projects, and creation of lead teachers to mentor colleagues
and plan further staff development. Six teachers per year attend annual
conferences of the National Council for Social Studies and Organization
of American Historians. Guest speakers will address Lewis and Clark
Expedition, World War I, and terrorism. Topics covered in grades 4 and 5
include Native Americans, Colonial America, Virginia in the American
Revolution, westward expansion, Civil War and Reconstruction, 20^th^
Century, industrialism, abolitionist and suffrage movements, and
provisions of 13^th^, 14^th^, and 15^th^ Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution.

**Grantee: Russell County Schools, Lebanon, VA**

**Project Name: The Master Teacher Project**

**Project Director: Tom Robinson (276) 889-6500**

**Funding: \$654,079**

**Number of Teachers Served: 25**

**Number of School Districts Served: 1**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In conjunction with Emory and Henry College, the Neff Center for
Teachers, and the Center for Teaching Excellence of the University of
Virginia's College at Wise, this project offers a Master of Arts degree
in education for American history for teachers of grades 3-11. The
curriculum includes historiography and methodology, and research and
writing, in addition to courses that cover European ideas involved in
American development, Colonial and Revolutionary America, the Civil War
and Reconstruction, industrialization and economic development, the
World Wars, and African and Latin American history.

**Grantee: Stafford County Public Schools, Stafford, VA**

**Project Name: Connections to the Past**

**Project Director: Agnes Dunn (540) 658-6674**

**Funding: \$999,456**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 150**

**Number of School Districts Served: 3**

**Number of Students Served: 15,218**

This project partners teachers in grades 4, 5, 6, and 11 with a
coalition composed of Mary Washington College, Virginia Historical
Society, Colonial Williamsburg, the National Park Service, Library of
Congress, Smithsonian Institution, and local museums and historic sites.
Year 1 addresses issues and themes that span 1492-1860; year 2 on
1860-1920, and year 3 on 1920 to the present, with each school year
focusing on a period of America's development---Becoming Americans;
Coming of Age; and America as a World Leader. Project elements include
creation of a cadre of American History Fellows, museum and historic
site lectures, summer institutes, an online forum for research and
collaboration, ongoing assessment, primary resource training, field
study and a mentor program. Between 1990 and 2000, target
districts---Spotsylvania County, Stafford County, and Fredericksburg
City Schools---experienced a more than 50% growth rate of increasingly
diverse students with significant gaps in American history knowledge.
The program is expected to have an impact on 450 teachers.

#### Vermont

**Grantee: Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union (SU 04), Vermont**

**Project Name: Developing Master Teachers in American History:
Southwest Vermont Consortium**

**Project Director: Mike Austin (802) 468-1232**

**Funding: \$825,000**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 105**

**Number of School Districts Served: 9**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

This consortium for professional development brings together elementary
and secondary U.S. History teachers in nine Supervisory Unions with
Castleton State College, Christ the King School, Rutland County Public
Schools, Bennington County Public Schools, Vermont Marble Museum, Lake
Champlain Maritime Museum, Slate Valley Museum, Vermont State Historic
Sites at Mount Independence Hubbardton, and historical societies in
Rutland, Pittsford, Brandon and Middletown Springs. Activities include:
identifying knowledge gaps through workshops, summer seminars, four
meetings during the school year to discuss content and teaching
strategies, master teaching observations, development of a documentary
collection, creation of a website to share products and resources.
Content focuses on themes: year 1, America's Public Debate (Madison,
Hamilton, Jefferson, Anti-Federalists); year 2, Industrialization and
Immigration; year 3, Cold War, Great Society, Fall of the Soviet Empire.

#### Washington

**Grantee: North Central Educational Service District, Wenatchee, WA**

**Project Name: Journeys of the American West**

**Project Director: Gene Sharratt (509) 665-2610**

**Funding: \$742,857**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 90**

**Number of School Districts Served: 29**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Journeys of the American West aims to help American History teachers in
grades 5-8 explore ways to use primary sources accessed through fiber
optic technology to connect students with key historical figures and
events. The 29 rural districts served vary from 6,979 to 9 students.
Fall, winter and spring workshops, summer institutes, mentoring and
instructional materials will supplement the unique direct web link to
the Library of Congress, National Geographic, Smithsonian Institution,
Public Broadcast System, and other primary sources. Content focuses on
Exploring the West chronicling the journeys of Lewis and Clark, David
Thompson, and Robert Stuart; Moving West, covering the fur trade and
Oregon Trail; and Settling the West, featuring the impact of railroads
and the Gold Rush. On completion, participants will have online access
to three "journey" curricula and increased content knowledge
instructional skills. Partners include Confederated Tribes of the
Colville Reservation, Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center,
Chelan Country Historical Society and Museum, FiberStar, Seattle Pacific
University, University of Idaho Center for Middle Level Education.

# Grantee: Thorp School District #400, Thorp, WA

**Project Name: America's Past Kindles Our Future**

**Project Director: Thomas Christian (509) 964-2107**

**Funding: \$899,964**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 75**

# Number of School Districts Served: 5

**Number of Students Served: 5,985**

# Teachers in grades 2,5,7,8, and 11 will attend eight day-long workshops and two summer workshops totaling 225 hours of instruction in American history content, methodology and research in partnership with multiple universities, museums, libraries/archives, and historical societies. Year 1 focuses on events affecting growth of territories and states (1750-1865). Years 2 and 3 cover growth to world power (1865-1945) and interaction within our borders and throughout the world (1945-2005). Partners include seven departments of the Central Washington University; historians from University of Washington, Gonzaga University, Eastern Washington University, Seattle Pacific University, Yakima Valley Community College, and the Washington Historical Society; Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Yakama Nation Museum, Yakima Valley Museum, and Washington State Museum; Washington Commission for the Humanities; and Ellensburg Public Library, Yakima Valley Regional Libraries, and Washington State Archives.

#### Wisconsin

**Grantee: Cooperative Educational Service Agency 2, Milton, WI**

**Project Name: Dialogues with Democracy**

**Project Director: Nikki Mandell (262) 472-1523**

**Funding: \$855,463**

**Number of Teachers Served: 75**

**Number of School Districts Served: 75**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

Inspired by the Jeffersonian belief that democracy depends upon an
educated citizenry, this collaboration to provide professional
development for U.S History teachers in grades 4-12 teams the largest
and most diverse public school district consortium in Wisconsin with
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Wisconsin Historical Society to
provide theme-focused summer institutes and school year activities
focused on classroom applications including roundtable discussions,
1-day workshops, and lectures. Teachers work with historians to explore
how primary sources can be integrated into classroom activities.
Participants receive a Teacher's Bookshelf of materials and can earn
graduate credits. Themes include: becoming American, democracy and the
challenge of war, and economic opportunity and expansion.

**Grantee: Cooperative Educational Service Agency 6, Oshkosh, WI**

**Project Name: Rediscovering Our Past: New Directions in U.S. History
Instruction Program**

**Project Director: Mike Derr (920) 236-0514**

**Funding: \$762,857**

**Numbers of Teachers Served: 320**

**Number of School Districts Served: 49**

**Number of Students Served: No information available**

In a program designed to enhance teacher content knowledge, build
capacity to use innovative strategies, boost student knowledge and
research skills using primary sources, and establish a cadre of "lead
teachers," 40 teachers in grades 5-12 will annually enroll in one-week
summer institutes and participate in workshops, consultations, and
historic site visits. An additional 200 teachers will participate in
school-based workshops, in-services and training, and receive mentoring
from lead teachers. Partnering with school districts are: Oshkosh Public
Museum, Outagamie Public Museum, Hearthstone Museum, University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh Archives and Area Research Center, Lawrence
University, Ripon College and Organization of American Historians.
Summer institute content will address: women in U.S. History, Civil War,
military history, race relations, historical methods, Constitution,
19^th^ century political and social history, post World War I, Colonial
America and the Revolution, Great Depression, and Native American
history. Efforts include outreach to area Laotian, Hmong, and Hispanic
organizations for assistance in developing effective instructional
approaches.

**West Virginia**

**Grantee: Upshur County Schools, Buckhannon, WV**

**Project Name: American HEART (History Education through Activities,
Research, and Technology): Walking in the Footsteps of History**

**Project Director: Robert Rupp (304) 473-8561**

**Funding: \$845,908**

**Number of Teachers Served: 120**

**Number of School Districts Served: No information available**

**Number of Students Served: 55,000**

In partnership with West Virginia Wesleyan College, the Smithsonian
Institution, the Williamsburg Foundation, and other educational and
humanities organizations, Upshur County Schools invites teachers from
school districts throughout northern West Virginia to participate in
spring and fall workshops and other staff development activities.
Following the West Virginia Social Studies Content Standards for K-12,
Standard 5 (history), American HEART focuses on 10 eras over the 3
years: year 1---era 1 (-1820), era 2 (1585-1763), era 3 (1754-1820);
year 2---era 4 (1801-1861), era 5 (1850-1877), era 6 (1870-1900); year
3---era 7 (1890-1930), era 8 (1929-1945), era 9 (1945-1970s), era 10
(1968-). Relevant issues include: European colonization, slavery,
independence of the colonies, role of government in the economy,
development of modern culture, Cold War and containment. Representative
persons include: John Smith, Nathaniel Bacon, Thomas Jefferson,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard
Nixon, Colin Powell. Related activities include: National History Day,
mentoring, networking, and service learning.