CURRENT SCHOLL CENTER GRANTS
IMLS GRANTS
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
Newberry Libary - $152,913
Project: Outspoken: Chicago's Free Speech Tradition
The Newberry Library and the Chicago Historical Society will work together to mount a major exhibit of historical materials highlighing free speech issues in Chicago and nationally. The two institutions will also work with community organizations to create an integrated set of public programs including public lectures, discussions, and curriculum materials to complement the exhibit.
NEH GRANTS
2004 Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development
Newberry Library - $199,938
Project: The North American Midlands Web Site: Resources for Teaching and Learning American History in a Global Perspective
A materials development project to design and initiate a digital archive and website on the hsitory of the Great Lakes region from the 17th through the early 20th centuries.
TAH GRANTS
2002 Teaching American History Grant
Chicago Public Schools - $976,445
Project: Chicago History Project: A Model Professsional Development Program
The nation's third largest school district will collaborate with the Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Metro History Education Center, Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, the Newberry Library, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the University of Illinois at Chicago to improve skills, raise student achievement, and create professional communities among history teachers in grades 7-12. Teachers from nearby middle and high schools are organized into 4-member professional development teams for intensive summer institutes, in-service colloquia, and programs featuring project partner resources. Institutes address political, social, cultural and economic themes reflected in initial encounters between American Indians and Europeans through the current era of globalization. Colloquia mix small group work with presentations on such topics as the Northwest Ordinance and Constitutional Convention of 1787, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, progressivism and the labor movement, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement. Designed to develop teachers as scholars and reflective practitioners, the project extends to non-participating schools and works to create master teachers for leadership roles.
2004 Teaching American History Grant
Chicago Public Schools - $1,213,290
Project: Connecting with American History Project
In cooperation with the Newberry Library, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Metro History Education Center, Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, and DuSable Museum of African American History, the project immerses 10th grade American History teachers in a series of professional development activities designed to increase teaching skills and content knowledge. Content focuses on significant defining moments of five seminal periods of traditional U.S. history: From Revolution to New Nation; Reconstruction of American Citizenship; Nation of Immigrants; Depression, War, and the State; and America's Second Reconstruction. Participants use Quarterly Planning Maps combined with benchmark assessments to align instructional skills with student progress. The program integrates traditional delivery methods - symposia, institutes, seminars and workshops - with "reform activities" including study groups, collaborative curriculum development, action research, and coaching.