The Newberry Library offers several professional development programs for Chicago Public School and Chicago-area teachers. Our content-based seminars bring distinguished scholars to the Library to share their work with participating teachers, as well as introducing teachers to the research possibilities in the Newberry's collections. The Library's programs for teachers are fully accredited by the Illinois State Board of Education, and those who participate earn recertification credits.
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Chicago Teachers as Scholars (TAS) is a partnership between Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the Newberry Library, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. TAS offers a series of two-day, content-based seminars on topics as diverse as International Human Rights, colonial Mexican maps, environmental changes, Harry Potter, and the French Enlightenment. This program is open to all CPS teachers. For more information, e-mail teacherprograms@newberry.org, or call Jessie Aucoin at (312) 255-3714. Major grants from the Polk Bros. Foundation, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, and the Brinson Foundation make this program possible. TAS also benefits from ongoing support by Peoples Energy and McDougal Littell.
The Newberry Teachers' Consortium (NTC) offers Chicago-area teachers a series of half-day seminars in eight AP-related subject areas: American History; English, Literature, and Drama; European History; Foreign Language; Geography; Library Science; Political Science, Economics, and Government; and World History. Distinguished scholars from area universities and colleges meet at the Newberry Library for seminars on topics relevant to teachers' needs and interests. Advance registration and a membership fee are required. For more information, e-mail ntc@newberry.org or call Brodie Austin at (312) 255-3672.
Chicago History Advanced Placement Project (CHAPP) is a partnership between Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago History Museum, the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago, the Newberry Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, and Loyola University Chicago to provide professional development for CPS Advanced Placement United States History teachers. Funded through a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grant, CHAPP is designed to further teachers' development as historians who share their knowledge and enthusiasm with their students and fellow colleagues. Participants simultaneously take part in a series of seminars centered around AP-level historical content as recommended by the College Board's AP guidelines, followed by a session devoted to classroom applications and curriculum development. For more information, email teacherprograms@newberry.org.
Connecting with American History Project (CAHP) is a grant-funded partnership between Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the Newberry Library, the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago, the National Archives and Records Administration, the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Chicago History Museum, and the Chicago Metro History Education Center. CAHP aims to develop the content knowledge of US History teachers within CPS by providing them extensive access to local institutions, resources and historians focused primarly on the study of African-American history. For more information, email teacherprograms@newberry.org.
Homewood-Flossmoor American History Consortium (HFAHC) is a collaboration between the Newberry Library, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and five of Chicago’s south suburban school districts. Together, the consortium partners organize graduate level seminars, summer institutes, and symposia in which participants expand their understanding of U.S. history and learn new ways to enrich their teaching of the subject to high school students.
Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms is a resource designed to bring historically significant map documents into your classroom. Historical background and commentary on the map, supplemental images and text, student exercises, and lesson plans created for different grade levels (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12) accompany each map. Designed to accommodate a variety of K-12 curricula, this collection of materials exploits the particular ability of historic maps to excite students' imagination of past landscapes, events, and human geographical conditions.Classics in Context is run through the Chicago Humanities Festival and offers a series of one-day seminars designed to allow educators to re-examine popular and widely-taught works. The seminars take place at several academic facilities; this past year the Newberry Library hosted a lecture and discussion on Beowulf. For more information, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival Web site at www.chfestival.org, or if you would like to attend a seminar, contact Lisa Viscusi at lisa@chfestival.org
The Newberry Library Public Seminars offer stimlating and affordable classes designed to encourage discussion in the humanities. These seminars are open to the general public, and several courses are offered for CPDU credit. Unlike the Chicago Teachers as Scholars seminars, participants in Newberry Library Seminars must pay tuition. Substitute coverage is not provided, but many courses meet on weekday evenings or on Saturdays. For more information please call the Newberry Library's Center for Public Programs by email at pubprog@newberry.org or by telephone phone at 312-255-3700.
The Chicago History Project (CHP) was a collaboration between Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the Newberry Library, the Chicago History Museum, the Chicago Metro History Education Center, the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Funded through the Department of Education's Teaching American History grant, CHP provided professional development for CPS teachers of U.S. History working in grades 7-12. For more information, visit the Chicago History Project Web site at www.chicagohistoryproject.org, e-mail teacherprograms@newberry.org.