Citizenship, Creativity and Invention Teaching American History Project A Partnership Dayton Public Schools Wright State

3. Citizenship, Creativity and Invention Teaching American History Project A Partnership Dayton Public Schools Wright State University

4. Topical Heading: Academic Improvement and Demonstration Programs Administering Office: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) Program Title: Teaching American History Grant Program— American History Demonstration Grants Who May Apply(specifically): Local education agencies (LEAs) must apply in partnership with one or more of the following: institutions of higher education, nonprofit history or humanities organizations, libraries, or museums.

6. Goals: Raise student achievement by improving teachers’ knowledge of American history. Build a network for sustained professional and resource development Create an innovative partnership model for the enhancement of American history teaching and learning.

7. Grantee: Dayton Public Schools, Dayton, OHProject Name: Citizenship, Creativity and Invention in American HistoryProject Director: Patricia Allen DayFunding: $915,615.00Number of Teachers Served: 80

8. Additional Partners: U.S. Air Force Museum, Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park, Montgomery County Historical Society, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, National Afro-American Museum Carillon Historical Park Wright State University Archives Ohio Historical Society

9. Programs Workshops, seminars and summer institutes Peer observation and mentoring, Conference on public history and education Teaching American History Project website Support for NBPTS certification Curricular Development Resources for the theme: "Citizenship, Creativity and Invention in American History."

10. Teacher Education Department

11. Project Team Patricia A. Day Marjorie L. McLellan Ronald G. Helms

12. Public History Resources ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway http://adam.ac.uk/index.html American Association for State and Local History http://www.aaslh.org/ American Association of Museums http://www.aam-us.org/index.htm American Historical Association http://www.theaha.org/ American Folklife Center, Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/ American Memory Project, Library of Congress http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

13. Art Museum Network http://www.artmuseum.net Association for Living Historical Farms and Museums http://www.alhfam.org/ Association of African American Museums http://www.artnoir.com/aaam.html Canadian Museums Association Home Page http://www.museums.ca/ Center for Museum Studies http://www.si.edu/cms/ Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) http://www.chin.gc.ca/e_main_menu.html

14. Chicago Historical Society http://www.chicagohs.org/ Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information http://www.cimi.org/ Computer Museum History Center http://www.computerhistory.org/ Getty Center Home Page http://www.getty.edu/ Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/webmuseums/ Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/webmuseums/ Heritage Preservation http://www.heritagepreservation.org/ History Sites http://www.ed.wright.edu/~rhelms/history.htm

15. H-Nets Discussion Lists for the Humanities http://www.h-net.msu.edu/ International Council of Museums (ICOM) http://www.icom.org/ International center for the study of and preservation and restoration of cultural property (ICCROM) http://www.iccrom.org/eng/index.htm Instituto Latinoamericano de Museologia http://www.ilam.org/ilam.html Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/ Midwest Open Air Museums Coordinating Council http://momcc.org/ MUSE http://muse.jhu.edu/ Museums http://socialstudies.com:80/museums.html

16. Museum Informatics Project (U.C. Berkeley) http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mip/related Museum Computer Network : Museum Sites Online http://www.mcn.edu/sitesonline.htm The Museum Professional http://www.sirius.com/~robinson/framecraze.html National Archives and Records Administration http://www.nara.gov National Association for Museum Exhibition http://130.160.178.161/NAMEindex.html National Conference of State Museum Associations http://www.io.com/~tam/smanet/

17. National Council on Public History http://www.iupui.edu/~ncph/home.html National Conference of State Museum Associations http://www.io.com/~tam/smanet/ The National Conference of State Museum Associations http://www.io.com/~tam/smanet/ National Park Service Cultural Resources http://www.cr.nps.gov/ Newberry Library http://www.newberry.org/nl/newberryhome.html NINCH Home Page http://www.ninch.org/

18. National Council on Public History http://www.iupui.edu/~ncph/home.html Ohio Historical Society http://www.ohiohistory.org/ Oral History Association http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/ Organization of American Historians http://www.oah.org/ Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/ Society of American Archivists http://www.archivists.org/

19. Society of Ohio Archivists http://www.ohiojunction.net/soa/ Texas Association of Museums (TAM) http://www.io.com/~tam/ Virtual Library Museum Pages http://www.icom.org/vlmp/ WebMuseum http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/ World Heritage http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/home/pages/index.htm

20. The History Department at Wright State University is seeking to hire a Coordinator and social studies teacher/mentor for the Teaching American History Project, a grant funded initiative with the Dayton Public Schools. Candidates must have a B.S. in Social Studies Education, a graduate degree in a related field, and three years social studies classroom teaching experience. Successful applicants will also demonstrate a high degree of competence in computer and multimedia applications and excellent interpersonal skills. The coordinator will mentor teachers, do demonstration teaching, participate in resource development, and coordinate project activities in the schools.

26. Winter- Spring History Seminars • ====================================== • Introduction & WebCT Orientation • World War I, World War II, Imperialism • Race, Gender and Aviation • Industrialization, Cold War, Colonial America • "Circa 1903", antislavery, temperance and labor songs • Slave Narratives

27. Saturday, April 5 2003 Race, Gender, and Aviation Symposium National Afro-American Museum

28. Summer 2003 Institute on African American History: The Great Migration Dr. Barbara Green

29. Summer 2003 CityFolk Institute on Folklife in Education Dr. Marjorie McLellan Funded by the Ohio Humanities Council and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation

30. 2004 -- 2005 Seminar History and the News Media Archives, Museums and the Schools Symposium Nearby History Summer Institute

31. 2005 Seminar History and the News Media Creativity and Invention In American History

32. 2002 -- 2005 SeminarWOEA Day Curriculum Planning

33. 2002 -- 2005 DPS Teacher Curriculum Planning

34. 2003 -- 2004 Seminar: American History To 1877 Seminar: American History Since 1877 Archives, Museums and the Schools Symposium

35. Curriculum and Web Site Develop • The Dayton Public Schools are reviewing proposals for a contract to produce the project Website and Curriculum Resource Materials. The contractor will participate in project coordination, meet regularly with the TAH Project team, work with historians and curriculum, align lesson plans and curriculum with Ohio standards, revise and edit reports and publications.