Course Information
Participating Teachers
Teachers participating in the course will meet throughout the year for professional development activities and will be compensated for this commitment to the course on a number of levels. For more information about this involvement, click here.
Projects and Activities
Year 1 - Change and Continuity in American Democracy
Year 2 - The Gathering and Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas
Year 1 - Change and Continuity in American Democracy
Exploring Our Places
For our Winter Workshop in February of 2007, the teachers were asked to prepare a brief narrative about their community and to bring an artifact that illustrates the community.
Exploring Our Places Assignment
Oral History Project
Starting in the spring of 2007, the teachers in the course began working on oral history projects. Click here to find out more about this project and read the assignments, or for help with transcriptions.
Videoconference Study Groups
For the schedule for our monthly videoconference study groups, and to access resources mentioned in these sessions, click here.
Summer Academy
Click here for more information about speakers and issues raised at the 2007 Summer Academy.
Year 2 - The Gathering and Interactions of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas
Monthly Videoconference Study Groups
In November we restarted the monthly videoconferences. Click here to see resources discussed at these sessions, along with date and location information.
Regional Tour
In October, our participating teachers traveled around the Puget Sound to Asian-American historical and cultural sites. Click here for more information about this tour.
Fall Workshop
We looked at "Diversity, Change, and Community Leadership" in our Fall Workshop in Morton. Click here to find out more.
Winter Workshop
TESC-Tacoma was our home for a workshop about the African-American experience in the West and in Tacoma. Click here for more information about our workshop.
Spring Workshop
For our Spring Workshop in May, we stayed at the Lake Quinault Lodge and explored the relationship between Native American communities and the environment. Click here from information about our discussion.
Summer Academy
Lots of great information from speakers and issues raised at Evergreen and Long Beach.
Year 3 - Economic and Technological Changes and Their Relation to Society, Ideas, and the Environment & The Changing Role of America in the World
Regional Tour
This year's trip through Western and Central Washington focused on the History and Growth of Washington's Economies. Click here for more information about this tour.
Fall Workshop
We spent our Fall Workshop in Centralia, introducing course participants to the Year 3 Themes through a look at labor.
Winter Workshop
We combined our Winter Workshop with the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Seattle. Find out more about OAH here.
Spring Workshop
The group traveled to Port Angeles in May to discuss the paradoxes and conflicts around water in the history of the west.
Summer Academy
Explore issues in rethinking US history in a global context, and changes in economic and technological development.
Year 4 - Extension
We were able to meet for a few last activities with an extension on our grant, including a make-up of our first year's Regional Tour.
Regional Tour
We explored some of the major historic sites in Eastern Washington. Click here for more information about this tour.
Fall Workshop
We traveled to the Satsop Development Park to discuss the history of nuclear weapons and power, and to catch up on what everyone's up to in the classroom.
Final Workshop
We met at the Vernetta Smith Chehalis Timberland Library for one final day, to discuss Howard Zinn and the work of the last four years.
Throughout
Tech Workshops
At the request of our teachers, we provided several tech workshops to help familiarize the course participants with software and tools to help create engaging lessons. Click here for more information about the topics covered at these workshops.
