Conferences/Workshops

Dar al Islam’s Teachers’ Institute – Understanding Islam and Muslims – June 18-20 in Abiquiu, NM.

Delve deeply into Islamic faith, practice, history and culture; explore existing resources and curriculum to teach about Islam in social studies, religion or world history classes; complete a final project that lends itself to immediate use.   --> read more »

The Center for Civic Education is pleased to announce a three-week NEH Summer Institute on "Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens: The National Academy for Civics and Government." This institute for educators from public and private high schools, middle schools, and upper elementary schools will be held on the campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.   --> read more »

The National World War I Museum Teacher Fellowship Program will provide participants with unique and exciting opportunities to grow within their profession while creating materials and engaging in collaboration with similarly qualified and ambitious teachers from around the United States. Upon acceptance to the program, Teacher Fellows will receive the following:   --> read more »

Be inspired this summer at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, as you join colleagues from across the country for an exciting exploration of the connections among American art, social studies, history, and English/language arts. This week-long institute will be held July 8–12, and July 29–August 2, 2013. Core subject teachers for grades 6-12 may apply as individuals or as part of a team.   --> read more »

Retrace Abraham Lincoln’s footsteps and explore mid-nineteenth-century Washington in “The Civil War in Lincoln’s Washington” Summer Teacher Institute with the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Join colleagues in a four-day exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and the African American experience during the Civil War, using the nation’s capital as a backdrop.   --> read more »

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY
Humanities Texas Teacher Workshops:
Slavery, Secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

http://humanitiestexas.org/education/teacher-institutes/upcoming-institu...   --> read more »

New York University, with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is offering a Summer Seminar for K-12 teachers from June 30 through July 18, 2013 on "Eastern Europe in Modern European History." Detailed information is available at http://cems.as.nyu.edu/page/neh2013.   --> read more »

Living on the Edge of Empire occurs in Deerfield, Massachusetts twice: July 7 to July 12, 2013 and July 28 to August 2, 2013. This K-12 teacher workshop places the 1704 French and Native American Raid on Deerfield in the context of the history of colonial New England.   --> read more »

American Material Culture: Nineteenth-Century New York
NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers

At the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
New York City, July 1-26, 2013

Objects matter. Material culture scholars use artifactual evidence
such as consumer goods, architecture, clothing, landscape, decorative   --> read more »

“We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union . . .”
Street Law’s 2013 Civic and Civil Rights Institute
Forming a More Perfect Union
July 10–12, 2013 | Washington, DC   --> read more »