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10 Seat Hours for all DCPS Teachers
Free Workshop 
Refreshments will be Served
CIVIL WAR AND CIVIL RIGHTS -- WORKSHOP AND MINI COURSE
Promising Practices: Paving the Way to Success
Monday, May 22, 2006 3:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Howard University, Blackburn Center
For information and registration: Call 202-667-2667, Email franksmith@afroamcivilwar.org
Registration Deadline: May 19, 2006

Civil War to Civil Rights: Promising Practices in Teaching African American History Across the Curriculum is an intensive two day workshop being conducted by the African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation at the Blackburn Center at Howard University. The mini course will be taught by professors from Howard, Jackson State, George Washington, and South Carolina State Universities. The two-day workshop will feature best practices that also meet local requirements for standards, content, and assessment.

The workshop is designed for middle and high school teachers and will include three hours of pre-reading material, eight hours of classroom lecture and two hours of educational activities. The intensive workshops and activities will cover a minimum of twelve hours and DCPS participants will earn 10 Seat Hours upon completion of this workshop.

 
MONDAY MAY 22, 2006
 
  3:00 pm -   4:15 pm Opening Plenary: Blackburn Center Howard University
Dr. Swygert, President Howard University
Dr. Walter Hill, Sr. Archivist, National Archives
Mr. Paul LaRue, Washington Court House High School, Ohio,
Dr. Frank Smith, Founding Director Civil War Memorial Foundation

  4:30 pm -   6:00 pm Workshop I Teaching with Historic Places: The Civil War Memorial and Museum
Dr. Bernard Demczuk, George Washington University
Mr. Pendleton, Cardozo Senior High School,
Harold Cox, Ballou High School,

  4:30 pm -   6:00 pm Workshop II All About Me and the Family Tree: Oral Histories, Engaging Students and their Elders in the Search for Family and Community History
Patricia Sluby, Certified Genealogist,
Theresa Johnson, NAACP Healthy Family Tree Project

  6:00 pm -   7:30 pm Workshop III Teaching Historic Events: The Summer of 1964
Dr. Leslie McLemore, Fannie Lou Hamer Institute,
Cherie Snyder, Alleghany College, Author of Teaching the Civil Rights Movement



TUESDAY MAY 23, 2006
 
  3:30 pm -   5:00 pm Workshop IV Promising Practices in the Curriculum: South Carolina and Florida
Melissa Pearson, USC,
Dr. Cleve Sellers, USC
Dr. Bernadette Kelley, FAMU

  3:30 pm -   5:00 pm Workshop IV-A All About Me and the Family Tree: Recording, Preserving and Using Photos, Bibles etc.
Audrey Hinton,
Eva Stephens, NAACP, Chair Health Committee

  5:00 pm -   6:30 pm Workshop V Promising Practices in Curriculum: The Tennessee, New Jersey and Maryland Models
Woodrow Grant, Chief Supt. of Equity Assurance for Md. Public Schools
Tarik Smith, Fisk Univ.
Sylvia Albritton, Director of ASALH
Regina Thomas, New Jersey Sec. of State



For more information and registration:

Call 202-667-2667 or email franksmith@afroamcivilwar.org DEADLINE—MAY 19, 2006


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