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.
Click here to find out about our teachers and their communities. We are adding these as they come in, so some names made not yet be linked to narratives.
We have created a Our Place in History Moodle Page for participating teachers to continue discussions from grant activities (login required).
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. Click here to read these narratives.
Exploring Our Places Assignment
Oral History Project
Starting in the spring of 2007, the teachers in the course will begin 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.
Tech Workshops
At the request of our teachers, we are providing several tech workshops, to help familiarize the course participants with software to help create engaging lessons. Click here for more information about the topics covered at these workshops.
