August 2008
August 4, 2008 - August 8, 2008
Building Academic Literacy through History
8:30-4:30
Building Academic Literacy through History will provide teachers with discipline-specific reading, thinking, and writing strategies aimed at developing literacy skills in all students, with a particular focus on the needs of English learners and native speakers reading below grade level. Using widely-adopted history textbooks and complementary primary sources, the institute will offer specific methods for text analysis, vocabulary development, and writing instruction all designed to increase student achievement in the subject area. For completing the institute, teachers will earn a certificate for forty professional development hours, or may purchase three-quarter units from University Extension.
$425 Special conditions apply for partner schools and districts. Please inquire.
View Event Flier | Register Now
August 5, 2008 - August 7, 2008
Solano County 8th-Grade Gear-Up Seminar
Solano Community College, Room TBA
This is the first event for The American History Academy: Investigating the Past, Preparing for the Future, Teaching American History Grant awarded to Solano County Office of Education in partnership with the History Project and Solano Community College(SCC).
Eighth-grade teachers from across the county will convene at SCC to examine "Founding Documents that Shaped the Nation" with SCC historians. History Project leadership will train participants in historical thinking and academic literacy strategies for students. Teachers will walk away with new knowlede, resources, strategies, model lessons, books, and County colleagues to hit the ground running for the new school year. Participants will earn a $500 stipend & 21 professional growth hours.
During the school year this cohort will continue work with SCC and the Project to collaboratively examine two additional units of study Expanding Democracy in the Early Republic and Age of Jackson and Fighting for Freedom: The Coming, Conduct, and Legacies of the Civil War, learn new strategies, develop curriculum, and examine practice. Teachers will earn an additional stipend and more growth hours.
Programs for 11th-Grade teachers begin in the summer of 2009.
For more information, contact:
History Project Coordinator, Stacey Greer-Crabtree at 530.752.5813 sbcrabtree@ucdavis.edu or
Solano County Office of Education Director, District and School Support Lisette Estrella-Henderson at 707.399.4406 LEHenderson@solanocoe.net.
To register, send your name, school & district, summer address, school & summer emails, and phone numbers to
The History Project at UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95816 or historyproject@ucdavis.edu.
Interested teachers from outside of Soloano County, please inquire.
August 18, 2008 - August 18, 2008
FCC Teaching American History 08-09 Kick-off
4:00-7:00
This event is the kick-off for Folsom Cordova and Center Unified's third year of Teaching American History cohort activities.
n/a