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Project HISTORY, 2009-2013
A Look Back
After two or three unsuccessful attempts
to win a Teaching American History grant, we were finally successful in 2009.
Past rejections were due; Too much emphasis on technology Faculty presenters who were too old
In the 2009 competition, these past problems, became strengths in securing a grant
Pre-Project
In the summer of 2009 we sent
announcements and invitations to all the area school districts to send us their best and brightest teachers
This is how many of you ended up in the program
Call for Teachers
In August of 2009 the original group of
teachers met for a week of orientation workshops at Cicero-North Syracuse High School
Year 1 2009-2010
You met our evaluator and took a pre-test You visited Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois You heard a presentation by Professor Ralph
Ketcham on “The Revolution and the New Nation, 1763-1791”
You watched and participated in a reenactment of the Ratification Debates with our guests George Clinton and Alexander Hamilton
You participated in “The Presidency and our Constitution” simulation
August 2009
We introduced the American History Public
Policy Analyst (AHPPA) We presented on WebQuests You created your own WebQuest lesson plans
for your classes
September 2009
Professor Ketcham presented on the
Presidency and the first Presidents drawing from his book, “Presidents Above Parties”
October 2009
Professor Roger Sharp delivered two talks
The Election of 1800 The Market and Transportation Revolution
We visited the Erie Canal Museum
November 2009
Professor Jim Carroll delivered a presentation
on the Marshall Court We showed you how to analyze Individual
Rights Supreme Court cases using CompuLEGAL
December 2009
We reviewed the AHPPA again We presented on PowerPoint You created a PowerPoint lesson for your
classes which included one step of the AHPPA process
January 2010
Professor Jim Carroll presented on landmark
Equal Protection Supreme Court cases We reviewed CompuLEGAL again We showed you several different teaching
methods for infusing Supreme Court cases into your teaching
February 2010
Professor Sharp delivered two more
presentations The Election of Andrew Jackson The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
March 2010
Professor Sharp returned one more time for
presentations on The Origins of the Sectional Controversy The Secession Crisis
April 2010
We took a field trip to Auburn, NY and visited
The Seward House Museum The Harriet Tubman House
May 2010
August 2010
Professor Douglas Egerton of Le Moyne College presented (based on his book “Year of Meteors”) on consecutive days in August on Abe Lincoln and the Election of 1860 Civil War and Reconstruction
We also visited the Onondaga Historical Association
Year 2, 2010-2011
Professor William Wiecek presented on “The
United States Supreme Court and Race in American History”
In the afternoon you created another AHPPA WebQuest
September 2010
Professor Andrew Cohen presented on “Tariffs,
Smuggling, Law and Foreign Policy in the Gilded Age” based on his book
October 2010
Professor Margaret Thompson delivered a talk
entitled “The Road to Suffrage” We also heard a presentation from Sue Boland
on the Matilda Joslyn Gage and the Gage Home
November 2010
Professor John Briggs presented on “Story
Lines and Myths in 20th Century Immigration Historiography”
December 2010
1937-2012
Visiting Professor Mark Schmeller presented a
talk on “Public Opinion”
January 2011
Professor Jim Carroll delivered a presentation
on Freedom of Speech and Press with an emphasis on National Secuity
We also reviewed CompuLEGAL
February 2011
Professor Cohen presented on “American
Workers, 1830-1945”
March 2011
Professor Carol Faulkner delivered a talk on
“Lucretia Mott and the Seneca Falls Convention”
Later we visited the Oneida Community Mansion House
April 2011
Professor Cohen returned one final time to talk
about “Progressivism and the Jazz Age”
May 2011
The original Project HISTORY was supposed to
be a 5-year project with two cadres of teachers each participating for 2.5 years.
However the funding was cut for the program and so instead of recruiting a new cadre of teachers we continued with the current group
Year 3 2011-2012
Professor David Bennett presented an in depth
look at World War I
September 2011
We heard from Melissa Greene from Teacher
Created Materials who presented on the new Common Core State Standards
Later in the day you created another AHPPA WebQuest for your classes
October 2011
We visited Seneca Falls, New York
Women’s Rights National Park National Women’s Hall of Fame Heard an after-lunch talk from Hall of Famer,
Karen DeCrow on the second wave of feminism
November 2011
Professor Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn presented on
Jane Addams and “Settlement House”
December 2011
Professor David Bennett returned for an in
depth study of World War II
January 2012
Professor Bennett delivered a talk based on
his book “The Party of Fear” which you received copies of
February 2012
Another workshop where you created an
AHPPA PowerPoint In the afternoon Professor Jim Carroll
presented on student rights and We had a special guest (Mary Beth Tinker) for
our simulation which you all participated in
March 2012
We took a three-day field trip to Philadelphia,
PA Among the sites we visited were
Valley Forge Independence Center Liberty Bell Christ Church National Constitution Center City Tavern
April 2012
Professor Bennett returned one final time for a
workshop on “Terrorism”
May 2012
Our grant was supposed to end in July of 2012, but due to our sound fiscal management of the project, we had enough carry-over funds to apply for and receive a six-month extension
Year 4, 2012-2013
Professor Gonda presented on the “Origins of
the Civil Rights Movement”
September 2012
Joe Montecalvo did a short presentation on the
new CCSS as well as on flipped teaching
October, 2010
Professor Milton Sernett presented on “Harriet
Tubman and the Abolition Movement”
October 2012
Dr. Lee Kanawada visited and presented on
“The Holocaust, 1933-1945”
November 2012
Professor Margaret Thompson returned and
presented on “Social Media and the Elections”
November 2012
Professor Jim Carroll presented on Due Process
Rights Supreme Court cases We reviewed CompuLEGAL once again
December 2012
TODAY! Status of teacher material orders A review of the entire project A review of resources that you will have going
forward An online exit survey for you to take Our thanks for making this a most enjoyable
3+ years!
January 2013
If you recall from the initial workshop back on
August 24, 2009, Jim presented a PowerPoint (with thanks to Charles Schultz) where he listed the three kinds of teachers you will find in every school
Parting thought
Keep Your Deck Chairs Facing Forward!!!