HUMANITIES TEACHER LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: April 2001

David B. Besozzi (Award: $2,000)
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School, Burnt Hills, New York
The Islamic World and its Impact on the West
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to develop and disseminate a curriculum guide that would help integrate teaching about the Islamic world into the New York State Global History and Geography curriculum.

Chris S. Blackburn (Award: $2,000)
Ithaca High School, Ithaca, New York
A Teaching Shakespeare Collaboration
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to collaborate with two institute colleagues to develop a course on Shakespeare through performance, write an article about it, make conference presentations, and post the information to a website.

Melissa Borgmann (Award: $2,000)
North Minneapolis High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Performing Shakespeare in the Classroom--Minnesota to Massachusetts to New York
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to collaborate with two institute colleagues to develop a course on Shakespeare through performance, write an article about it, make conference presentations, and post the information to a website.

Richard F.Celio (Award: $2,000)
Enfield High School, Enfield, Connecticut
Seminar on Religion on Wheels
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to convene a six-day study group with a small number of teachers who will study the origins of several religions and then visit religious centers for each one of the faiths.

Dianne L. Cherry (Award: $2,000)
Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School, Washington, DC
Teaching Unit--Women of Color and Citizenship Rights
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to develop and disseminate classroom materials for a unit about women of color and citizenship rights and privileges.

Sara K. Cohan (Award: $2,000)
Pensacola High School, Pensacola, Florida
Presentations on Muslim Europe
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to develop and disseminate lesson plans and other materials that integrate Near Eastern topics into social studies courses.

Mark S. Hilgendorf (Award: $2,000)
Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts
Slave Culture in America
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to disseminate material gathered during the "Slave Culture" institute to teachers at Milton Academy.

Nancy J. Horner (Award: $2,000)
Arkansas City Middle School, Arkansas City, Kansas
Virginia Woolf in the Classroom--Teaching Materials
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to develop teaching guides, student activities, tests, bibliographies, biographical and historical background material, and web links for twelve works by Virginia Woolf, and to post this material to a newly-created website.

Mary J. Immediata (Award: $2,000)
Ravenscroft School, Raleigh, North Carolina
Renaissance Humanist Impulse
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to collaborate on the creation and dissemination of a two-week interdisciplinary unit on Renaissance humanism.

Kimberly B. Jenkins (Award: $2,000)
Freehold Township High School, Freehold, New Jersey
Expanding Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets: A View from the Bridge and Waiting for Lefty
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to create and disseminate curriculum units on A View from the Bridge and Waiting for Lefty.

Gregory J. Loselle (Award: $2,000)
Grosse Ile High School, Grosse Ile, Michigan
A Website for Humanist Scholarship
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to set up a website devoted to Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Erasmus.

Decoursey Clayton Lucas (Award: $2,000)
Hargrave Military Academy, Chatham, Virginia
Occupied Landscape: Classroom Explorations Analyzing Cultural Contacts in 17th Century North America
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to develop an educational website and accompanying teacher's guide concerning environmental and ecological issues relating to the interactions between Native Americans and Europeans in the 17th century.

Nancy P. Maness (Award: $2,000)
Aneth Community School, Aneth, Utah
Navajo History Pictorial Curriculum
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to develop and disseminate a pictorial curriculum focusing on the Navajos and the Utes.

Lisa P. McDonagh (Award: $2,000)
Watertown Middle School, Watertown, Massachusetts
All the World's a Stage--Engaging Diverse Students in a Video Performance/Critical Analysis Exchange of a Shakespeare Play
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to collaborate with two institute colleagues to develop a unit on Shakespeare through performance, write an article about it, and post the information to a website.

Susan H. Mitchell (Award: $2,000)
Jefferson Middle School, Oceanside, California
San Diego and California--Questions of Region, Place and Identity
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to explore issues of regionalism as they apply to San Diego, California, and to the southwest; to incorporate this information into a new curricular unit; and to hold a workshop at the California League of Middle Schools to share this material with other teachers.

Laura T. Murphy (Award: $2,000)
Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, California
Multiple Approaches to the Teaching of the Roots of the African American Experience
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to disseminate new lesson plans and curricula on the African American experience.

Lori D. Nelson (Award: $2,000)
USC/MaST High School, Los Angeles, California
Curriculum Development, Spanish for Native Speakers
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to collaborate in the development and dissemination of a four-year curriculum that will serve each of the four levels of Spanish for native speakers.

Laura Nicholls (Award: $2,000)
Nanuet Union Free School District, Nanuet, New York
Artistic Images of the Industrial Revolution in Britain
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to create a CD-ROM on artistic images of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, with 36 visual images, descriptions and interpretations, artists' biographies, and a bibliography.

Linda M. Robb (Award: $2,000)
Broad Ripple High School, Indianapolis, Indiana
Primary Sources for Colonial Slavery in Charleston
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to travel to South Carolina to conduct archival research on slavery in the Charleston area, and to reproduce some of this material on a CD-ROM, which will be made available to teachers in Indiana.

Marc P. Schuhl (Award: $2,000)
Pace Academy, Atlanta, Georgia
Making Cross Cultural Connections Across the Ancient Near East
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to develop and disseminate curricular resources about the culture and literature of the Late Ancient world.

Janice C. Sinur (Award: $2,000)
Milwaukee Education Center Middle School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Integrating Wisconsin Indian History through the Arts
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to create and disseminate an interdisciplinary curriculum which integrates the histories and cultures of the Indians of the western Great Lakes into an art educational unit on clothing traditions and techniques.

Edward L. Stering (Award: $2,000)
Mercy High School, San Francisco, California
Los Angeles Spanish for Native Speakers Group
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to collaborate in the development and dissemination of a four-year curriculum that will serve each of the four levels of Spanish for native speakers.

Robert J. Wilson (Award: $2,000)
Suffern High School, Suffern, New York
Law and Literature in the High School English Classroom
A Humanities Teacher Leadership Program award to write a monograph that will establish the study of legal documents in the high school English curriculum.