Upcoming Events

Building Academic Literacy in the History Classroom Conference

October 24, 2009 The UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project is excited to announce the Building Academic Literacy in the History Classroom Conference on October 24, 2009.  This one-day conference will be hosted by Mt. Diablo Unified School District teachers from the Teaching American History for All Grant. The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Gary Nash.  Dr. Nash is the director of the National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) and Professor Emeritus of Early American History at UCLA.  His keynote address, Roots of Citizenship in America: The Unknown American Revolution, will examine the many meanings the American Revolution had to its diverse participants. How did the people of that time understand what they were fighting for? What outcomes did they hope to enjoy?

The 2006-2009 Teaching American History for All Grant has focused on creating discipline-specific, rigorous American History content for the classroom that is based on the theme of Teaching American History for All: Changing Definitions of Citizenship.  At the conference, 5th, 8th, and 11th grade teachers will present two standards-based model lessons for each ofthe three grade levels. Their lessons integrate reading, writing, and thinking strategies to build students’ literacy and historical thinking skills in the history classroom.

Annoucing the American Democracy in Word and Deed Teaching American History Grant new in 2009

We are pleased to annouce that the Mt. Diablo Unified School District and the UCBH-SSP have been awarded a Teaching American History Grant, beginning in 2009. Focusing on the theme of American Democracy in Word and Deed, this grant will focus on increasing the content knowledge of teachers and their students, and increasing students' academic literacy and critical thinking skills.

If you are a Mt. Diablo Unified School teacher of 4th, 5th, 8th, or 11th grade U.S. History and are interested in applying to be part of the American Democracy in Word or Deed Grant, please contact Lauren Weaver, TAH Grant Coordinator for MDUSD at lweaver@berkeley.edu or call (510) 643-0897. Spaces are limited.

Summer Institutes 2009

Registration Deadline: June 12, 2009

Click here to download our printable 2009 Summer Institutes flyer

The UCB History-Social Science Project invites you to attend our summer institutes where we seek to help you engage your student in history and help them become historical thinkers. In 2009, UCBH-SSP will offer a literacy institute, a content institute focusing on world history, and a content institute focusing on American history.

Building Academic Literacy Through History

An Institute for 4th-12th Grade Teachers
July 13-17, 2009
This is the 8th year we have offered this institute. Each year, through our teachers' classroom inquiries we've added to our understanding of helping all history students be better readers, writers, and thinkers. In this five day institute, we will focus on discipline-specific literacy strategies designed to increase student reading, writing, and critical thinking skills while teaching the California History-Social Science Content Standards. Local teachers will lead workshops with classroom-tested model lessons. Teachers will create a lesson of their own integrating literacy stragies in a standard-based lesson.

Teaching American History for All

An Institute for 5th, 8th, & 11th Grade Teachers of U.S. History/English-Language Arts
August 10-14, 2009 (this institute will be held at the Willow Creek Center in Concord)
This institute focuses on the theme of Changing Definitions of Citizenship in the United States for 5th, 8th, and 11th grade teachers of U.S. history/English-Language Arts. Participants will increase their content knowledge in U.S. history and learn how to incorporate reading, writing, and thinking strategies into standards-based classroom planning. The institute includes daily professor lectures followed by models of teacher-created lessons tying lecture topics into the standards-based citizenship theme and integrating reading and writing strategies into the curriculum. Teachers will receive standards-based, grade-specific model lessons and develop their own lessons incorporating academic literacy strategies and primary and secondary sources. Please visit the TAH website for further information: http://tah4all.org.

Information and Technology in World History
Canceled due to low enrollment

An Institute for World History Teachers, Grades 6, 7, 10 & other interested teachers
July 20-24, 2009
We live in an age of globalization characterized in part by rapid developments in technology and information systems. But information and technology have often been powerful forces for historical change. This institute will place our current information and technological revolutions in a world-historical perspective through a set of case studies drawn from different cultures and contexts from antiquity to the present day. In examing the effects of information and technology on poltical, economic, and social development, we will explore several major themes, including writing and print/information technology; science and society; technology and warfare; and empire and the diffusion and consolidation of knowlege. Presented by professors from UC Berkeley's History Department, and organized around the Content Standards for California Public Schools, these case studies will provide a number of useful tools and strategies for teaching information and technology in world history.

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