EXEMPLARY EDUCATION PROJECTS AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: April 2003

Connecticut

Connecticut Architecture Foundation, Ellington (Outright: $130,000, Additional Match: $60,000)
Contact: Anna Sanko, (203) 865-2195
Project: The Hartford Connection
Description: A three-year project to develop an interdisciplinary middle school curriculum, with related print- and web-based materials, on Hartford's history as preserved in its built environment.

District of Columbia

Environmental Literacy Council, Washington (Outright: $175,000, Additional Match: $15,000)
Contact: Kathleen deBettencourt, (202) 296-0390
Project: Reading the American Landscape
Description: The production of a web-based set of environmental history teaching guides for middle and high school teachers by a group of school teachers and scholars in collaboration with the National Humanities Center.

Illinois

Northwestern University, Evanston (Outright: $150,000, Additional Match: $20,000)
Contact: Janine Spencer, (847) 491-7761
Project: Picpus; Walled Garden of Memory; A Digital Archive
Description: A digital archive using Picpus Cemetery in Paris as a focal point for exploring the intersections of French and American history over three centuries and related cultural themes.

Kansas

Johnson County Community College, Overland Park (Outright: $135,650)
Contact: Doreen Maronde, (913) 469-8500 x3676
Project: Inter-Cultural Assimilation and Conflict in East Asia
Description: Intensive faculty and curriculum development workshops conducted by leading Asianists for part-time faculty in collaborating community colleges.

Maine

Maine Humanities Council, Portland (Outright: $185,000)
Contact: Charles Calhoun, (207) 773-5051
Project: Longfellow and the Forging of American Identity
Description: A series of seminars designed to engage teachers from Maine in the study of the work and cultural influence of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, followed by the development of interactive curricular resources for the Maine Memory Network.

Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth (Outright: $180,000, Additional Match: $10,000)
Contact: Robert Waxler, (508) 999-8752
Project: The Construction of a Web Site and CD-ROM for Changing Lives Through Literature
Description: The development of a website and CD-ROM designed to extend the educational outreach of the Changing Lives Through Literature program.

New York

Farmers' Museum, Inc., Cooperstown (Outright: $200,000)
Contact: Garet Livermore, (607) 547-1490
Project: A Harvest of History: A Supplemental Social Studies Curriculum Description: A three-year collaboration among The Farmers’ Museum, The National Gardening Association, and two school districts in upstate New York to produce a fourth-grade curriculum on the history of American agriculture, from Native American farming practices through the rise of factory farming.

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (Outright: $175,000, Additional Match: $25,000)
Contact: Elizabeth Rogers, (212) 501-3064
Project: The Italian Villa as a Landscape Type: A Pilot Project to Create a Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes
Description: A web-based digital archive focusing on the Italian villa to facilitate teaching and learning about historic landscape sites and subjects in undergraduate and graduate courses.

Columbia University, New York (Outright: $175,000, Additional Match: $10,000)
Contact: Rita Charon, (212) 305-9379
Project: Narrative Medicine: Teaching Humanities to Health Professionals
Description: The development and evaluation of an intensive training curriculum in literature and medicine for health professionals.

Pennsylvania

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh (Outright: $200,000)
Contact: Ann Fortescue, (412) 454-6393
Project: Worlds in Motion: American Indians on the Colonial Frontier
Description: The creation of print- and web-based curriculum materials for K-12 teachers relating to the indigenous cultures of the eastern United States from the time of contact through the colonial period.

Texas

Association for Core Texts and Courses, Irving (Outright: $244,000)
Contact: J. Scott Lee, (908) 359-7560
Project: Bridging the Gap Between the Humanities and Sciences: An Exemplary Education Model of Core Text, Humanistic Education
Description: A three-year sequence of intensive seminars leading to the development of courses that integrate the sciences and the humanities within the general education curricula of seven participating institutions.

Virginia

Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington (Outright: $200,000, Additional Match: $10,000)
Contact: Claire Griffin, (703) 894-4622
Project: The Founders and the Constitution
Description: The creation of a teachers' guide, pilot workshop, interactive website, and other teaching aids to improve students' knowledge of the contributions of the Founding generation to American democracy.

George Mason University, Fairfax (Outright: $180,000, Additional Match: $35,000)
Contact: Roy Rosenzweig, (703) 993-1247
Project: Women, World History, and the Web: Teaching and Learning Through Online Primary Sources
Description: An online curriculum resource center for world history teachers and students which would include annotated and translated primary documents on women's roles in many cultures and teaching strategies and support for using these materials effectively.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Outright: $200,000)
Contact: David Gies, (434) 924-4652
Project: Telling Moments: A Spanish Film Archive for High School Teachers
Description: The creation of a web-based archive of scenes from Spanish films for use in high school classrooms.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg (Outright: $180,000, Additional Match: $5,000)
Contact: E. Thomas Ewing, (540) 231-8366
Project: The History Survey Online: Digital Resources for European and US History
Description: The development of twenty-six online, multimedia sources that provide historical data and inquiry-based learning structures for major topics in college survey courses.

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Outright: $180,000, Additional Match: $20,000)
Contact: Magdalena Hauner, (608) 263-2445
Project: Utamaduni Online: An Advanced Level Course in Swahili Language and Culture
Description: The creation of interactive, multimedia lessons in Swahili for intermediate language learners to acquire advanced skills in the target language.