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Look for Alabama Council for Social Studies for more resources and opportunities.
Our partners often offer workshops, webinars, classes, and other opportunities and events which we will share with you here as well as on our Facebook page.
Five Day Institute for Project Citizen
Dear Social Studies and Gifted Education Leaders,
As leaders in your state’s organizations, I wanted to share with you a wonderful opportunity for you and your fellow educators for professional development. The Covid 19 pandemic has changed the face of education. Prior to the pandemic, the Center for Civic Education had offered to us the opportunity to host a five day institute for Project Citizen. The program which has been used in more than 80 countries around the world is a very powerful Civic Education program. There are so many opportunities within the program to reach the talents of all students in the regular classroom and in the gifted, enrichment programs. The program is open to teachers of middle and high school students. The institute will be an opportunity to train teachers in the implementation of the program. Originally, the Institute was going to be hosted in person in Birmingham, Alabama in July. With the pandemic and all of the travel restrictions, we made the decision to offer the training virtually via the Zoom platform. I am the South regional director and we are offering the training to teachers from ten states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The Institute is open to any teacher who has not already been implementing Project Citizen.
Please look over the attached information and pass it along to your members. We are hoping for all applications to be submitted by June 15. There is no cost for the participants who will earn a stipend once all of the requirements for this research-grant based institute are completed. After the summer virtual institute, they will receive support and additional training throughout the year from the mentors. I will also be sharing this information on each state's Facebook pages. However, I truly think that you are the most important link in getting this information out to your fellow educators. The teachers may also register online by clicking on the link below instead of filling out the attached form.
APPLICATION SUBMISSION DEADLINE — June 15, 2020
Please click the link to complete this form.
Form
As leaders in your state’s organizations, I wanted to share with you a wonderful opportunity for you and your fellow educators for professional development. The Covid 19 pandemic has changed the face of education. Prior to the pandemic, the Center for Civic Education had offered to us the opportunity to host a five day institute for Project Citizen. The program which has been used in more than 80 countries around the world is a very powerful Civic Education program. There are so many opportunities within the program to reach the talents of all students in the regular classroom and in the gifted, enrichment programs. The program is open to teachers of middle and high school students. The institute will be an opportunity to train teachers in the implementation of the program. Originally, the Institute was going to be hosted in person in Birmingham, Alabama in July. With the pandemic and all of the travel restrictions, we made the decision to offer the training virtually via the Zoom platform. I am the South regional director and we are offering the training to teachers from ten states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The Institute is open to any teacher who has not already been implementing Project Citizen.
Please look over the attached information and pass it along to your members. We are hoping for all applications to be submitted by June 15. There is no cost for the participants who will earn a stipend once all of the requirements for this research-grant based institute are completed. After the summer virtual institute, they will receive support and additional training throughout the year from the mentors. I will also be sharing this information on each state's Facebook pages. However, I truly think that you are the most important link in getting this information out to your fellow educators. The teachers may also register online by clicking on the link below instead of filling out the attached form.
APPLICATION SUBMISSION DEADLINE — June 15, 2020
Please click the link to complete this form.
Form
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July 13-17, 2020
Location:
Mobile Convention Center
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Early Bird Registration $165 - Deadline April 3, 2020
Pre-Registration $175 - Deadline June 12, 2020
Late/Onsite $185
Register NOW for best rate!
For Conference, Registration and Hotel Information please Click Here
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Tallahassee, FL 32312
2020 NEH Institute on the Grassroots History of the Civil Rights Movement
July 6 – 24, 2020 at Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Due to safety concerns related to COVID-19, and in accordance with the NEH, this institute has been postponed until 2021. We will update this page as soon as the 2021 summer institute dates are available. We will also reopen the applications later this year. (Date to be determined by the NEH.)
The Center for Documentary Studies is proud to partner with a team of scholars, SNCC veterans, and Teaching for Change, and the SNCC Legacy Project on a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Teacher Institute, The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Perspectives (1940–1980), in the summer of 2020.
Participants (classroom teachers and school librarians in grades 7-12) will learn the bottom-up history of the Civil Rights Movement and receive resources and strategies to bring it home to their students. They will have the unique opportunity to learn from the people who made the Civil Rights Movement happen, and from the leading scholars of the era. The following narratives will serve as the focus of the institute:
In addition to the scholars and veterans, we will be joined by Zinn Education Project curriculum writer and teacher organizer Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Ursula has written lessons on COINTELPRO, redlining, reparations, the Depression era deportations of Mexican Americans, Standing Rock, and more. Ursula will work with the participants both during and after the institute to develop lessons based on the institute themes for their respective grade level and subjects.
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July 6 – 24, 2020 at Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Due to safety concerns related to COVID-19, and in accordance with the NEH, this institute has been postponed until 2021. We will update this page as soon as the 2021 summer institute dates are available. We will also reopen the applications later this year. (Date to be determined by the NEH.)
The Center for Documentary Studies is proud to partner with a team of scholars, SNCC veterans, and Teaching for Change, and the SNCC Legacy Project on a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Teacher Institute, The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Perspectives (1940–1980), in the summer of 2020.
Participants (classroom teachers and school librarians in grades 7-12) will learn the bottom-up history of the Civil Rights Movement and receive resources and strategies to bring it home to their students. They will have the unique opportunity to learn from the people who made the Civil Rights Movement happen, and from the leading scholars of the era. The following narratives will serve as the focus of the institute:
- The Civil Rights Movement was a primary force for the expansion of democracy for all.
- The Movement was based on the work of thousands of local “ordinary” people who both organized and sustained it.
- Women and youth were a fundamental part of the leadership and the troops of the Movement.
- The tradition of protest grew out of a long history of activism and resistance in the Black community.
- And more.
In addition to the scholars and veterans, we will be joined by Zinn Education Project curriculum writer and teacher organizer Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Ursula has written lessons on COINTELPRO, redlining, reparations, the Depression era deportations of Mexican Americans, Standing Rock, and more. Ursula will work with the participants both during and after the institute to develop lessons based on the institute themes for their respective grade level and subjects.
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In 2018, we organized the first NEH Institute on Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement. Thirty teachers came to learn from people who were active in the Civil Rights Movement and from leading scholars of the movement, including: William Chafe, Charles Cobb Jr., Courtland Cox, Emilye Crosby, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Charles Payne, Barbara Ransby, Judy Richardson, and more. The institute was held in the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. Read more.
The institute was highlighted in an Edutopia article by Melinda Anderson, “A Better Way to Teach the Civil Rights Movement.”
In their evaluations, teachers commented on how the institute changed them personally and how it will change their teaching. Here are just a few of their reflections:
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The institute was highlighted in an Edutopia article by Melinda Anderson, “A Better Way to Teach the Civil Rights Movement.”
In their evaluations, teachers commented on how the institute changed them personally and how it will change their teaching. Here are just a few of their reflections:
- The institute grew me. I have stepped out of everything that I thought I knew and I have been expanded. I feel more confident in teaching a narrative based on real people and their stories and not the mythical characterizations of history that focus on a protagonist and an antagonist. I have changed because I now see my classroom as a platform for change.
- This institute has completely transformed how I think about the Civil Rights Movement and ultimately how I am going to teach it in the classroom. I have received so many resources to use for teaching this hard history. I am a part of the movement that will change the way history is being taught and preserved. We are making history. I am making history. Words cannot express how happy and powerful this program has made me feel. My life has changed.
- I learned lessons about education, community-based engagement, and processes of social transformation that placed women front and center, and my mind soared throughout those talks — at times I felt lifted out of myself.
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Durham, NC 27705
Regional Groups
This year we will develop four regional groups. Each group will be comprised of teachers from that region. In each region, teachers will be able to share their voices and participate in professional development pertaining to social studies. Keep your eyes open for further details. If you are interested contact your regional director: North- Dr. Adam NeSmith ; South- Ms. Andrea Kohutek ; East- Dr. Linda Mitchell ; West- Dr. Wanda Ward