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!!!