Videoconference Study Groups
Each month, teachers will participate in study groups over video with their grade level peers to share how they are translating the course activities to their classrooms. These sessions will help build the course participants' professional development community, providing a regular contact with their colleagues.
Resources Discussed at the Study Groups
From the ESD 113 Media Center:
1. In the "Decisions: Immigration" activity, students play the role of the President of the U.S., facing the dilemma of on-going immigration and U.S. immigration policy. This activity includes a teacher guide and student reference books. For more information about the "Decisions, Decisions" series, go to Tom Snyder Productions.
2. For the full list of webstreaming activities from Power Media Plus, click here.
3. Bristol Productions, a local video production company, explores the stories of World War II veterans through Oral history interviews on Voices of WWII.
Lesson Ideas from Oral Histories Online:
1. Manuscripts of oral history interviews completed by the Federal Writers' Project, available through the American Memory project of the Library of Congress.
2. Lessons from the Library of Congress using oral histories.
3. Various techniques to explore oral history interviews in the classroom from Youth Source.
4. "What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories" lesson plan on EDSITEment from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
5. This is Your Life family history lesson plan on HotChalk.
6. You Be the Historian lesson from the National Museum of American History.
Year 1 Dates
Middle School
Thursday, March 15, from 3:30 to 5:30
Centralia – Alan Beck
ESD Office, Pacific Room – Sue Schumacher and Cindy Jouper
Morton – Mick Moulton
North Thurston (at the Bower Center) - Rey Waltz and Cassie White
Shelton – Dean McCoy and Brian Hake
Thursday, April 26, from 3:30 to 5:30
Centralia – Alan Beck
ESD Office, Pacific Room – Sue Schumacher and Cindy Jouper
Montesano – Barb Diaz
Morton – Mick Moulton and Michele Birley
North Thurston (at the Bower Center) - Joe Baginski, Rey Waltz, and Cassie White
Shelton – Dean McCoy and Brian Hake
Thursday, May 24, from 4:00 to 5:30
Aberdeen – Lee Dunegan
Centralia – Alan Beck
ESD Office, Pacific Room – Sue Schumacher and Cindy Jouper
Montesano – Barb Diaz
Morton – Mick Moulton and Michele Birley
North Thurston (at the Bower Center) - Joe Baginski, Rey Waltz, and Cassie White
Shelton – Dean McCoy and Brian Hake
High School
Tuesday, March 20, from 3:30 to 5:30
Aberdeen – Lee Dunegan
Centralia – Hal Gronseth, Teresa Ramirez, Sarah Thomas, and Jan Watson
Elma – Sean Ekerson
ESD Office – Cindy Jouper, Anna Kuntz, and Tim Voie
North Thurston (at the Bower Center) - Mike Stauffer
Tuesday, April 24, from 3:30 to 5:30
Aberdeen – Lee Dunegan
Centralia – Hal Gronseth, Teresa Ramirez, Sarah Thomas, and Jan Watson
Elma – Sean Ekerson
ESD Office – Cindy Jouper, Anna Kuntz, and Tim Voie
North Thurston (at the Bower Center) - Mike Stauffer
Tuesday, May 22, from 4:00 to 5:30
Centralia – Michele Birley, Hal Gronseth, Teresa Ramirez, Sarah Thomas, and Jan Watson
Elma – Sean Ekerson
ESD Office – Brian Hake, Cindy Jouper, Anna Kuntz, Sarah McLaughlin, and Tim Voie
North Thurston (at the Bower Center) - Mike Stauffer
