Professional Development Opportunities and Announcements
Educator Summer 2013 Opportunity to Explore Appalachia
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 8:28pmEach year, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers tuition-free opportunities for educators to study a variety of humanities topics. Among the 2013 offerings is a three-week institute, Power of Place: Land and People’s In Appalachia, from July 8 to July 26, at the University of North Carolina at Asheville in Asheville, North Carolina. --> read more »
Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institutes – Teaching with Primary Sources
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/16/2013 - 11:32amThe Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its 2013 Summer Teacher Institutes in Washington, D.C. The five-day institutes provide educators with tools and resources to effectively integrate primary sources into K-12 classroom teaching, focusing on student engagement, critical thinking, and construction of knowledge. Learn more and apply here: --> read more »
African American Literature and Social History Summer Institute for High School Teachers, Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 12/20/2012 - 5:46pmAfrican American Literature and Social History
Summer Institute for High School Teachers
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities
July 8 – 26, 2013 --> read more »
2013 International NEH Summer Seminar “East-Central Europe, 1989: The History and Philosophy of the Peaceful Revolutions.”
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 12/22/2012 - 3:03pmThe University of Northern Colorado, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities, is offering a 4-week intensive Graduate level Summer Seminar for K-12 teachers in Berlin, Germany and Prague, Czech Republic. The peaceful revolutions and fall of communism are still considered to be among the most important events of the twentieth century. --> read more »
Library of Congress 2013 Summer Teacher Institutes - Teaching with Primary Sources
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/04/2013 - 4:49pmThe Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its 2013 Summer Teacher Institutes in Washington, D.C. The five-day institutes provide educators with tools and resources to effectively integrate primary sources into K-12 classroom teaching, focusing on student engagement, critical thinking, and construction of knowledge. --> read more »
Street Law, Inc. 20132 Civics & Civil Rights Institute: Forming a More Perfect Union
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 11:29am“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 »
Professional Development Opportunity as Part of US Delegation to Indonesia, Summer, 2013
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 3:40pm2013 Indonesia-US Youth Leadership Program - a Two-Way Exchange for U.S. & Indonesian Secondary School Students
June 15-July 14, 2013
LegacyInternational (http://www.legacyintl.org) is seeking energetic EDUCATORS with experience teaching ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS or DIALOGUE for a great travel opportunity. --> read more »
NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 11:32amAmerican 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 »
NEH Summer Seminar in NYC: Eastern Europe in Modern European History
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 1:21pmNew 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 »
The 1960s: Upheaval at Home and Abroad
Submitted by David Bailor on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 2:35pmChoices Summer Leadership Institute
July 8-12, 2013
Applications are available at www.choices.edu/pd/
Application deadline is Friday, March 15, 2013.
Become a Choices Teaching Fellow! --> read more »
