SCHOOLS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: April 2001

ARIZONA

Arizona State University, Tempe (Outright: $145,000)
Director: Beth Luey, (480) 965-5778
Project: Creating an Inclusive Humanities Curriculum: University-High School Collaboration
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project for a school in Tempe, to strengthen the curriculum through a comparative study of history and culture, using local resources on Native American and Hispanic cultures.

ARKANSAS

Blytheville School District, Blytheville (Outright: $120,000)
Director: Sandy Hughey, (870) 762-2053
Project: Linking the Past to the Future: Archaeology and 21st Century Technology in the Mississippi Delta
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project for the Arkansas Archaeological Society and the Blytheville School District to create an archaeology-centered curriculum for fifth and sixth graders and a newly established magnet school.

CALIFORNIA

California State University, Long Beach (Outright: $140,000)
Director: Donald Schwartz, (562) 985-5090
Project: Using Technology to Teach Immigration, Migration, and Acculturation
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project to enhance the teaching of United States and world history through technology and oral history at a middle school in Long Beach.

Los Angeles Educational Partnership, Los Angeles (Outright: $80,000, Matching: $25,000)
Director: Barbara Golding, (213) 622-5237 ext. 250
Project: Art Collections for Educators
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project for a high school in Los Angeles, to integrate the use of digitized images of objects from a museum's collections into the teaching of social studies, literature, and art.

San Dieguito Union High School District, Encinitas (Outright: $145,000)
Director: Karen Veinbergs, (760) 753-6491
Project: VISTAS: Perspectives on Latino Culture
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project that will prepare teachers at a middle school in Encinitas, to coordinate their efforts in developing a Latino Studies strand through courses in world history, United States history, English, English as a second language, and three elective classes, two in Spanish and one in art.

ILLINOIS

Kenwood Academy, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago (Outright: $145,000)
Director: Kenneth Warren, (772) 702-9761
Project: Chicago in the Classroom/Chicago as a Classroom
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project for a public high school in Chicago focused on teacher training leading to the development of web-based humanities courses on the diverse social, literary, and cultural history of Chicago beginning with the 1893 World Exposition.

MICHIGAN

Sault Ste. Marie Area Schools, Sault Ste. Marie (Outright: $145,000)
Director: Catherine L. Tibbett, (906) 635-6618
Project: Connecting Students to Upper Peninsula Michigan History
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project for a middle school focused on the intensive study of five themes in the history of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, including Ojibiwa legacies and the French and the fur trade, in collaboration with the River of History Museum.

NEW JERSEY

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona (Outright: $145,000)
Directors: Paul Lyons and Anu Vedantham, (609) 652-4931
Project: Open Heart, Open Mind: Engaging Educators in Holocaust and Genocide Education
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project in which two schools in southern New Jersey will develop curricula in Holocaust and genocide education for grades 5-8.

NEW MEXICO

Pueblo of Laguna Department of Education, Laguna (Outright: $145,000)
Director: Nicholas Cheromiah, (505) 552-9091
Project: Humanities Teaching with Technology at Laguna Middle School
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project for a middle school structured around studies in Laguna culture, language, and history, as well as comparative world mythology and canonical texts in the Western tradition.

NEW YORK

Henry Street Settlement, New York (Outright: $145,000)
Director: Susan Fleminger, (212) 598-0400
Project: A Walk Through the Lower East Side
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project to engage teachers and students at an urban elementary school in New York City in examining the history and culture of their community.

OHIO

Greater Cincinnati Educational Television Foundation, (WCET), Cincinnati (Outright: $30,000)
Director: Patsy Carruthers, (513) 345-6532
Project: In My Neighborhood: History and Tradition Meet the Information Age
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project on using community studies of Greater Cincinnati to engage teachers and students in learning about American history and culture.

WASHINGTON

Valley View Alternative Elementary School, SeaTac (Outright: $145,000)
Director: Tracey Drum, (206) 433-2377
Project: Travel through Time and Culture
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project to foster the study of local and regional history through field experiences, oral history projects, the study literature, and the integration of technology and digital sources into the curriculum at a Seattle-area school.