Teaching American History
| Grantee Name: | Danbury Public School System, CT |
| Project Name: | Best Practices in Teaching American History |
| Project Director: | Clare Barnett |
| Funding: | $993,631 |
| Number of Teachers Served: | 200 |
| Number of School Districts Served: | 4 |
| Number of Students Served: | 23,839 |
| Grade Levels: | K-12 |
| Partners: | Western Connecticut State University, University of Hartford, University of Bridgeport, the Danbury Museum and Historical Society, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Bill of Rights Institute, Historicus, Inc., and Curriculum Research and Evaluation |
| Topics: | Year 1, Liberty and Justice; Year 2, Common Good and the Pursuit of Happiness; Year 3, Patriotism and Diversity; the American Revolution and Constitution, antebellum slavery and freedom, industrialization and immigration, the U.S. as a world power |
| Methods: | Graduate courses, mentoring, seminars, lectures, summer academies |
Following a previous TAH project, this training program envisions a core group of 24-30 teachers who participate in a graduate cohort spanning the three-year grant cycle. Ten previously trained "Fellows" will provide mentoring and peer leadership. The curriculum is organized around paired themes of civitas, or core democratic values. Case studies such as the Amistad case and use of primary sources will highlight material on historical events and figures such as Frederick Douglass, Silas Deane, Sacco and Vanzetti, John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lord Dunmore, Abigail Adams and Sarah Osborn, and Connecticut's Chester Bowles. Subject material on the U.S. as a world power examines the Little Rock Nine, Brown v. Board of Education, Emmett Till, Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Act of 1964.
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Last Modified: 10/23/2007
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