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NWPE News Notes
The Online Communiqué of Northwest Professional Educators
January 12, 2005
National Endowment for the Humanities
Grant Opportunities for K-12 Educators
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) provides grants for K-12 educators to engage in in-depth study on history and humanities topics. Educators chosen to attend NEH-sponsored workshops, seminars, and institutes receive a stipend and travel expenses to help defray travel and living expenses.
Summer Seminars and Institutes are often described by participants as “life changing” and the finest professional development in the humanities available. Participants are drawn from all parts of the United States and study with nationally-recognized humanities scholars. Programs last from two to six weeks.
Please see below for more information as well as teacher testimonials which attest to the value of these incredible opportunities.
Landmarks of American History Workshops
Landmarks of American History Workshops are offered by NEH to provide the opportunity for K-12 educators to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics in American history. These academies give participants direct experiences in the interpretation of significant historical sites and the use of archival and other primary historical evidence. Landmarks Workshops present the best scholarship on a specific landmark or related cluster of landmarks, enabling participants to gain a sense of the importance of historical places, to make connections between what they learn in the Workshop and what they teach, and to develop enhanced teaching materials for their classrooms.
General questions concerning NEH Landmarks of American History programs may be directed to the NEH Division of Education Programs. (202-606-8463 or e-mail sem-inst@neh.gov).
Workshop Topics:
- Wiping Away the Tears: Renewing Cherokee Culture and American History Through the Cherokee Heritage Center and the Trail of Tears
- Shaping the Constitution: A View from Mount Vernon, 1783-1789
- Stony the Road We Trod: Using Alabama's Civil Rights Landmarks to Teach American History
- The Last Great American Canal: How the Illinois and Michigan Canal United 19th Century America
- Clashing Identities: Arrow Rock, Missouri, Where West Met South, 1820-1860
- A Vast and Many Voiced Creation: Congress and the Capitol
- Between Columbus and Jamestown: Spanish St. Augustine
- The Rouge Plant, Henry Ford, and Manufacturing History: 1917-2004
- America's Industrial Revolution
- James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship
- Crafting Freedom: Thomas Day and Elizabeth Keckly, Black Artisans and Entrepreneurs in the making of America
- The Lincoln Home, Society, and Politics in Antebellum America, 1840-1861
- Massachusetts, 1801-1861
- Life, Liberty, and Opportunity: The Struggle for Freedom in Tidewater Maryland, 1634-1865
- Hull-House in the Progressive Era: People, Places, and Ideas
Stipends: Teachers selected to participate will receive a stipend of $500. Stipends are intended to help cover living expenses, books, and travel expenses to and from the Workshop location. Travel supplements for those traveling long distances will be available and allocated after participants are selected.
Deadline: The application deadline is March 15, 2005. Please see the NEH website at http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks.html where workshop descriptions, dates, locations, and application information will be posted soon.
Summer Seminars and Institutes
Each year NEH offers K-12 teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes. The 2005 topics are listed below.
Seminar Topics:
- Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic
- The Arabic Novel in Translation
- Chaucer’s Canterbury Comedies
- Reading Don Quixote
- Visions of the Dark Years: Legacies of World War II in France
- Shakespeare: Enacting the Text
- Emile Zola’s Germinal: Esthetics and Ethics in the Novel
- Citizenship and Culture: French Identity in Crisis
- The Dutch Republic and Britain: The Making of Modern Society and European World Economy
- W.B. Yeats and the Two Irelands
- The Canterbury Tales and Medieval Culture
- Punishment, Politics, and Culture
- Say Something Wonderful: Teaching the Pleasures of Poetry
- Dante’s Commedia
Institute Topics:
Stipends: All teachers selected to participate in a seminar or institute will be awarded a fixed stipend based on the length of the seminar or institute to help cover travel costs, books and other research expenses, and living expenses: $1,800 (2 weeks), $2,400 (3 weeks), $3,000 (4 weeks), $3,600 (5 weeks), or $4,200 (6 weeks).
Deadline: The application deadline is March 1, 2005. Topics of the seminars and institutes are listed below.
From participants in the 2004 summer programs:
“Overall, I regard this institute as the best professional and educational experience I have had in many years. Both the scheduled presentations and the informal discussions with an exceptional group of colleagues from across the country provided opportunities to increase my own knowledge, to learn new ways of organizing and presenting old and new materials and to begin inserting this information into my curriculum and lesson planning for the coming year.”
- Baton Rouge, LA
“This was one of the best educational experiences I have ever had. I am inspired by the energy, detail, and enthusiasm [the directors] brought to the program; this incites me to bring the same level of rigor and excitement to my own teaching.”
- Wilmette, IL
“Overall, the Institute was absolutely fantastic….As far as the impact on my teaching, I will return to the classroom energized and excited about sharing the information with my students. Even the texts and information that I can’t use in my high school classroom gave me a better understanding so that I can give my students a better feel for the world of the renaissance.”
- Meridian, MS
“Words cannot even begin to describe the effect the experience has had on my teaching and scholarship. As a teacher of World Literature, the experiences directly apply to what I teach on a daily basis.”
- Irmo, SC
“In my twenty-two years in the Army and 5 years of teaching, this was the most professionally run institute or workshop I have ever attended. Every moment was filled with learning experiences from a wide variety of disciplines – geography, geology, anthropology, literature, sociology, political science, history, archaeology, and many more….I cannot say enough about the superb lectures, field trips, and classroom activities I encountered at this institute….All of the faculty, visiting or otherwise, were experts both in their topics and in the classroom.”
- Riverview, FL
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