Projects
Becoming America: The Defining the Role of Immigration Project (2009-2014)
A five-year, federally funded project which offers professional development to selected American History teachers in the participating school districts. The aim of the project is to help both native and non-native students see themselves reflected in the history of our country, thereby making American history more relevant to their own experiences by promoting a common cultural heritage. Read more...
Voices Rising: Assimilation and the American Experience (2006-2009)
A three-year, federally funded project which offers professional development to selected American History teachers in the Everett, Malden, Medford and Revere school districts. Teachers receive training to enhance their skills in the teaching of American history and by learning to think and act like historians by using and analyzing primary source documents in their teaching of history. Read more ...
Completed Projects
Laptops in American History
This project provided training in the implementation of the Voices Rising project to teachers using a one-to-one WiFi student laptop environment in order to maximize demonstrated student learning on the soon-to-be-required U.S. History MCAS test. Read more ...