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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
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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,
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| 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
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| 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
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| TUESDAY MAY 23,
2006 |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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