HUMANITIES SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE GRANT AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 2001

ALABAMA

Baldwin County Board of Education, Bay Minette (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Nancy Danley, (334) 972-6864
Project: The History and Cultures of Baldwin County
Description: A collaboration between the schools in the county and the public library to involve students in compiling from primary sources and interviews a multicultural history of Baldwin county, creating a collection that will be publicly available as a basis for continuing research.

ALASKA

University of Alaska, Fairbanks (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Giulia R.M.Oliveria, (907) 474-7874
Project: Sugpiaq Curriculum and Materials Development
Description: A program to integrate the Sugpiaq culture and language into the curriculum with a foundation of culturally relevant teaching materials for first and second grades.

FLORIDA

Dowdell Middle Magnet School, Tampa (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Diane Stevens, (813) 744-8322
Project: Florida Ecosystems
Description: A program of guided study for a team of teachers responsible for the school's environmental curriculum, focusing on the ecosystems of Florida.

Jefferson High School, Tampa (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Peter Billingsley, (813) 872-5241
Project: Latin American Studies Program
Description: Development of an interactive Latin American History course that would encompass music, film literature, religions, art, dance, language and history.

Land O'Lakes High School, Land O' Lakes (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Jeff Morgenstein, (813) 794-9400
Project: Spanish and Latin American Theater
Description: A program to enable teachers to study works of theater from Spain and Latin American in preparation for developing curriculum in the areas of language, literature, and history.

School District of Lee County, Fort Myers (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Brenda Sims Palmer, (941) 461-5322
Project: Dunbar: A Microcosm of Communities in Transition
Description: A curriculum development project to engage students in a study of Dunbar and its surrounding community concurrently with the study of general American history.

IDAHO

Meadows Valley High School, New Meadows (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Pam Mc Garry, (208) 347-2411
Project: Masters of the Arts
Description: A program of professional development for teachers to incorporate "Great Masters" of art into the teaching of core subjects from kindergarten through eighth grade.

LOUISIANA

Brother Martin High School, New Orleans (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Thomas Mavor, (504) 238-1561
Project: World Geography
Description: A program to strengthen the teaching of geography in the school's social studies curriculum.

MISSOURI

Lee's Summit North High School, Lee's Summit (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Jonetta Stewart, (816) 986-3000
Project: Kansas City and United States History
Description: A training program for teachers to help students connect family and local history with the nation's history.

NORTH DAKOTA

Central Middle School, Devils Lake (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Teresa L. Tande, (701) 772-7664
Project: Ethnic Groups in North Dakota
Description: An examination and discussion of texts related to prairie cultures by a group of language arts and social stuides teachers who will integrate concepts emerging from this study into thte 7th and 8th grade curriculum.

Circle of Nations Wahpeton Indian School, Wahpeton (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Lise Erdrich, (701) 642-3796
Project: Indian School Centennial
Description: A program of study focused on the centennial of the last off-reservation Indian boarding school, the Wahpeton Indian School, founded in 1904.

Dakota Prairie School District, Petersburg (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Janet Edlund, (701) 345-8233
Project: Literary North Dakota
Description: A project to familiarize teachers with the works of North Dakota writers and to incorporate regional themes into the teaching of literature.

OHIO
Wayne High School, Huber Heights (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Thomas J. Schaefer, (937) 233-6431
Project: Connecting U.S. and World History
Description: A project to prepare a team of social studies teachers to develop curriculum, materials, and teaching strategies that will facilitate thematic integration of the teaching of world history and United States history since 1815.

PUERTO RICO

Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus, Ponce (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Héctor Alvarez-Trujillo, (787) 284-1912
Project: Indigenous Cultures in Puerto Rico
Description: A project to be conducted in the Dr. Rafael Pujals Community School in Ponce to incorporate study in grades 7, 8, and 9 of the contribution of indigenous cultures to the historical development of Puerto Rico and Ponce.

TEXAS

Alexander Hamilton Middle School, Houston (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Diana Tanguma, (713) 802-4725
Project: Hispanic Literature
Description: A project to engage a group of teachers of language arts, English as a second language, and Spanish in the study of major works by Spanish and Latin American authors and by Hispanic writers in the United States.

Texas Folklife Resources, Austin (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Patricia Jasper, (512) 441-9255
Project: Folklife Education
Description: A program to introduce teachers at the Kealing Junior High School to the key concepts of folklife studies.

WYOMING

Natrona County High School, Casper (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Anne Pieper, (307) 233-1501
Project: Approaches to Knowledge
Description: The development of a course that would explore diverse forms of knowledge and how one arrives at knowledge according to various philosophical perspectives and the methods employed in various scholarly disciplines.

University of Wyoming, Laramie and Powell High School, Powell (Outright: $10,000)
Contact: Eric Sandeen, (307) 766-3839
Project: Heart Mountain Project
Description: A project to prepare a team of teachers to use the history and the physical site of the World War II Heart Mountain Relocation Camps as a means of engaging students in active learning, drawing on a multitude of disciplines in a framework of American Studies.