K-12 EDUCATION PROJECTS AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 1999

ALASKA

ARIZONA

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Tempe, Arizona State University $169,813
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Asuncion Lavrin, (602) 965-5900
TITLE: Converging Cultures: Native America, Europe, and the Encounter
DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 30 schoolteachers on the cultures of the Americas before and after the encounter with Europeans focusing on Mexico and Peru, southwest Indians in the U.S., and the impact of the encounter on Europe.

“Schools for a New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance learning)
Tempe, Arizona State University $30,826
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Beth E. Luey, (480) 965-5775
TITLE: University-High School Collaborative for Minority History
DESCRIPTION: Planning of a U.S. history curriculum integrating the history of minority groups, including creation of a special web site with links to relevant sites and bibliographic materials, at McCLINTOCK HIGH SCHOOL in Tempe.

CALIFORNIA

“Schools for the New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance learning)
San Francisco, Bay Area School Reform Collaborative $31,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Kathleen Ferenz, (415) 241-2797
TITLE: The IDEAL Project (Inquiry, Diversity, Educational Assessment, and Learning)
DESCRIPTION: Planning of an interdisciplinary English and history curriculum on diversity in American culture, incorporating digitized primary source documents, at FREMONT HIGH SCHOOL in Fremont.

Los Angeles, Los Angeles Educational Partnership $31,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Barbara Golding, (213) 622-5237
TITLE: Art Collections for Education
DESCRIPTION: Planning for integration of American art into the study of U.S. history and culture, using digitized artwork from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, at CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL in the West San Fernando Valley.

Curriculum development
Long Beach, California State University, Long Beach Foundation $24,886
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Arnold P. Kaminsky, (562) 985-5279
TITLE: Cultural Crossroads: Integrating Southeast Asia into the Middle- and High-School World History Curriculum
DESCRIPTION: A series of workshops and seminars for middle- and high-school teachers aimed
at expanding the Long Beach Unified School District's world history curriculum to include the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia.

CONNECTICUT

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Storrs, University of Connecticut $149,722
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Sandra B. Schreffler, (860) 486-2529
TITLE: New Perspectives on Cultural Transformation in the Spanish Caribbean
DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 25 secondary school teachers of Spanish to pursue, on site in Puerto Rico, an interdisciplinary study of the Spanish Caribbean through literature, arts, and history.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Folger Shakespeare Library $169,983
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Janet M. Field-Pickering, (202) 675-0372
TITLE: Folger Shakespeare Library Teaching Shakespeare 2000 Institute
DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 26 schoolteachers on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Macbeth.

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Center for Applied Linguistics $130,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Joy K. Peyton, (202)362-0700……………………….MATCHING FUNDS $37,000
TITLE: Building the Knowledge and Expertise of Teachers of Spanish to Heritage Spanish Speakers
DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 30 middle and high-school Spanish teachers on teaching
Hispanic culture, literature, and dialects to native Spanish speakers.

Georgetown University $98,648
PROJECT DIRECTOR: John Tutino, (202) 687-6194
TITLE: Intersecting Histories of Mexico and the U.S.: A Focus on Border Regions and Immigration
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

FLORIDA

“Schools for the New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance learning)
Naples, District School Board of Collier County $31,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jan S. Loper
TITLE: The Harmony Project
DESCRIPTION: A planning grant to MANATEE and IMMOKALEE MIDDLE SCHOOLS in rural Collier County to develop a web-based course, which can be used as a national model, on “The Migrant Experience” for the children of migrant workers.

GEORGIA

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Atlanta, Emory University $102,809
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Harvey Klehr, (404) 727-6575
TITLE: Communism and American Life
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants

IOWA

“Schools for the New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance learning)
Grinnell, Grinnell Community High School $31,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David W. Stoakes, (515) 236-2720
TITLE: American Studies: The Great Depression Period
DESCRIPTION: Planning the creation of an interdisciplinary 10th- grade American history and literature course focused on the Great Depression, using online primary source documents and materials from the public library and the Grinnell Historical Museum, at GRINNELL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL.

KANSAS

“Schools for the New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance learning)
Kansas City, Kansas State School for the Blind $31,400
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Eleanor Craig, (913) 281-1133
TITLE: Pioneering Interdisciplinary Studies on the Oregon Trail in the Information Age
DESCRIPTION: Planning for the development of special screen- reading software and other digitized adaptations to teach the history of the Oregon Trail, including emigrant diaries and the history of Kansas City, for sight-impaired students at the KANSAS STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.

MARYLAND

Curriculum development
La Plata, Charles County Community College $23,828
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Wayne Karlin, (301) 475-6546
TITLE: Summer Teachers' Program on Teaching the Experience of the Vietnam War
DESCRIPTION: A program enabling high-school teachers of English, history, social studies, civics, and journalism to incorporate the history, themes, and issues of the Vietnam War and its aftermath into their courses.

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Largo, Prince George's Community College $198,400
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Joseph F. Citro, (301) 322-0600
TITLE: Early Slave Cultures in the Tidewater/Chesapeake and Carolina Lowcountry: Learning and Teaching at Historic Sites
DESCRIPTION: A five-week national institute for 30 schoolteachers, National Park Service personnel, and employees of historic sites to engage in discussions with scholars and do hands-on work focusing on the material culture of slave life.

MASSACHUSETTS

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Cambridge, President and Fellows of Harvard College $115,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Diana L. Eck, (617) 496-2481
TITLE: World Religions in America
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

Amherst, Amherst College $96,842
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Austin D. Sarat, (413) 542-2308
TITLE: Law, Justice, and Morality: Readings in Contemporary Jurisprudence
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

North Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts $89,700
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Gerard M. Koot, (508) 999-8305
TITLE: Historical Interpretations of the Industrial Revolution in Britain
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

Curriculum development
Newton Centre, Newton Public Schools $24,105
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Barbara Harrison, (617) 552-7409
TITLE: The Examined Life: Ancient Greek Studies in the Public Schools
DESCRIPTION: Seminars and workshops on ancient Greece for Boston- area middle- and high-school teachers and administrators.

MICHIGAN

“Schools for a New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance learning)
Sault Ste. Marie, Sault Ste. Marie Area Schools $31,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Catherine L. Tibbett, (906) 635-6618
TITLE: Connecting Students to Upper Peninsula History
DESCRIPTION: Planning for development of curricular materials and a web site on the history of the upper Great Lakes region at SAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL.

MINNESOTA

Summer programs for schoolteachers
St. Paul, Macalester College $85,465
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Andrew J. Overman, (651) 696-6375
TITLE: India and Rome: Culture and Religion from Classical Middle East to the Hindu Kush
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

Collegeville, Saint John's University $68,960
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Eugene Garver, (320) 363-3381
TITLE: Machiavelli's THE PRINCE
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Hanover, Dartmouth College $65,201
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Elisabeth I. Perry, (615) 322-2575
TITLE: Feminist Classics in American Culture
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants

NEW JERSEY

Summer programs for school teachers
Piscataway, Rutgers State University $152,289
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Bonnie G. Smith, (732) 932-9072
TITLE: World History: New Scholarship on Women and Gender
DESCRIPTION: A six-week national institute for 25 high-school teachers on current scholarship dealing with women and gender in global perspective.

Curriculum development
Newark, New Jersey Institute of Technology $25,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Kate Burns Ottavino, (973) 596-3094
TITLE: Interdisciplinary Historic Preservation Course for 12th Grade
DESCRIPTION: The development of curricular materials for a prototype high-school course in historic preservation.

NEW YORK

“Schools for the New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance student learning)
Cairo, Cairo-Durham Central School District $31,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Barnett Sturm, (518) 622-8534
TITLE: Schools for a New Millennium Planning Grant
DESCRIPTION: Planning for the incorporation of web materials to teach world events and human-rights issues in a rural Catskill Mountains school district consisting of two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.

Summer programs for school teachers
Brookville, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus $89,733
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Katherine C. Hill-Miller, (516) 299-2391
TITLE: Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

New York City, American Forum, Inc. $144,386
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Hazel S. Greenberg, (212) 624-1300
TITLE: Muslim Europe: The Changing Cultural Contours of the West
DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 25 secondary teachers on the historic and imagined boundaries that have divided Islamic and Christian civilizations, and to consider the contributions of European Muslims.

New York City, Trustees of Columbia University $87,298
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Carl F. Hovde, (212) 663-0014
TITLE: The Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants

NORTH CAROLINA

Curriculum development
Raleigh, Motheread, Inc. $24,986
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Linda Capell, (919) 781-2088
TITLE: Abuela Faculty Enrichment Project
DESCRIPTION: A national literacy education project involving study of Latino literary traditions and history by educators associated with Motheread, Inc., in connection with the development of a humanities-based reading curriculum for literacy educators across the nation.

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Durham, Duke University $104,848
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ronald G. Witt, (919) 684-8201
TITLE: The Humanist as Reformer: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Erasmus
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

Research Triangle Park, National Humanities Center $167,705
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Richard R. Schramm, (919) 549-0661
TITLE: Nature Transformed: Imagination and the North American Landscape
DESCRIPTION: A three-week national institute for 25 schoolteachers on Native and European American interactions with the natural environment, featuring a case study of the North Carolina environment.

NORTH DAKOTA

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Fargo, North Dakota State University $79,831
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Thomas D. Isern, (701) 231-8339
TITLE: The Great Plains from Texas to Canada: Questions of Regionalism and Identity
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

Curriculum development
Devils Lake, Lake Region Junior College $25,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Sam A. Johnson, (701) 662-1600
TITLE: Language of the Land: A Journey into Great Plains Life and Literature
DESCRIPTION: A yearlong study by middle and high school teachers and college professors in Devils Lake, North Dakota, on the literature, history, and culture of the Great Plains.

OHIO

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Columbus, Ohio State University Research Foundation $144,101
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan M. Hartmann, (614) 292-1871
TITLE: Women's Rights and Citizenship in American Thought, Culture and Practice
DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 30 schoolteachers on women's citizenship and rights in the United States.

“Schools for a New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance student learning)
Lisbon, Beaver Local High School $31,495
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Barrie S. Archer, (330) 386-8700
TITLE: Links Across the Curriculum, Culture, and Time
DESCRIPTION: Planning for the development of interdisciplinary courses on Mayan history and culture, drawing on Internet resources, at BEAVER LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Curriculum development
Worthington, Worthington City Schools $21,864
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Rhoda M. Gelles, (614) 883-3055
TITLE: Multicultural American Narrative: A Rhetorical and Cultural Approach
DESCRIPTION: A study of multicultural American narratives for high school humanities teachers in Worthington and Columbus, Ohio.

OREGON

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Portland, Society for Values in Higher Education $157,580
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Albert Rabil, Jr., (919) 967-0231
TITLE: Worlds of the Renaissance
DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 30 secondary school teachers on the history and culture of the Renaissance.

PENNSYLVANIA

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Scranton, University of Scranton $82,267
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Len G. Gougeon, (570) 941-7422
TITLE: Authors of Reform: Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Douglass, and Stowe
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

TENNESSEE

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Nashville, Vanderbilt University $86,958
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Marshall C. Eakin, (615) 322-3328
TITLE: Race, Gender, and National Identity in Brazil
DESCRIPTION: A national summer seminar for 15 participants.

TEXAS

“Schools for a New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance student learning)
Houston, Holy Spirit Episcopal School $31,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Beverly B. Aderholt, (713) 468-5138
TITLE: World View
DESCRIPTION: Planning of a curricular program on the language and culture of Costa Rica, building on a cultural exchange program with a Costa Rican school and incorporating digital materials, at the HOLY SPIRIT EPISCOPAL SCHOOL.

UTAH

“Schools for a New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance student learning)
Salt Lake City, Kearns High School $31,500
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Holly L. Allen, (801) 964-7500
TITLE: Fostering Diversity
DESCRIPTION: Planning for integrating Hispanic studies into the humanities curriculum through digital technology at KEARNS HIGH SCHOOL.

VIRGINIA

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Charlottesville, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities $153,098
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Joseph C. Miller, (804) 924-6395
TITLE: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: The African Dimension of Early American History and Culture DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 25 teachers of American history and literature focusing on the experiences of Africans in colonial North America.

“Schools for a New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance student learning)
Fairfax, George Mason University $31,448
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Charles S. Keeter, (703) 993-1412
TITLE: Developing Digital Resources for Citizenship Education
DESCRIPTION: Planning for developing digital resources and related teacher training to strengthen the government and civics curriculum at WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.

WASHINGTON

Curriculum development
Bellingham, Western Washington University $24,850
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Raymond L. Wolpow, (360) 650-3337
TITLE: Holocaust-Genocide Studies Reconsidered: Workshop for Teachers of Grades 4 through12
DESCRIPTION: A study project on the Holocaust and other episodes of genocide for teachers of grades 4 through 12 from public and independent schools in the northwest corner of Washington state.

“Schools for a New Millennium” projects (using new technologies to enhance student learning)
Sea Tac, Valley View Alternative Elementary School $30,686
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Tracey E. Drum, (206) 433-2377
TITLE: Travel Through Time and Culture
DESCRIPTION: Planning for development of a new curriculum on local history and the history of the Pacific Rim using digital resources at VALLEY VIEW ALTERNATIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

WISCONSIN

Summer programs for schoolteachers
Milwaukee, Marquette University $143,936
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Alice B. Kehoe, (414) 288-5356
TITLE: America's First Nations: American Indians in Social Studies Curricula
DESCRIPTION: A four-week national institute for 25 school teachers to study North American Indian history; participants also would develop strategies for introducing this history into their own school curricula.

River Falls, University of Wisconsin, River Falls $132,808
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Carole J. Gerster, (715) 425-3354
TITLE: Picturing American Diversity: Cinematic Representations of America's Ethnic Minorities
DESCRIPTION: A five-week national institute for 25 schoolteachers to examine how films can help students understand America's cultural diversity and the role of film in shaping the dynamics of that diversity.