SCHOOLS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM IMPLEMENTATION GRANT AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: April 2000

ALASKA

Sealaska Heritage Foundation, Juneau (Outright: $90,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Rosita Worl, (907) 463-4844
Project: Traditions and Technology: Teaching Indigenous Humanities and Knowledge Through Modern Technology-Based Curriculum
Description: A Schools for A New Millennium implementation grant on Tlingit language and culture in Kake Elementary and Kake High School.

ARIZONA

Arizona State University, Tempe (Outright: $100,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Roger L. Bedard , (480) 965-2032
Project: Navajo Exemplary Humanities Project
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium implementation award to create a “Humanities Learning Center” to explore cross-cultural themes at a Seba Dalkai School in northern Arizona.

CALIFORNIA

California State University, Fresno (Outright: $180,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Vida Samiian, (559) 278-7069
Project: Crossing Academic Boundaries: Integrating Technology with Interdisciplinary Learning
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium implementation project on “The Immigrant Experience,” “Steinbeck’s California,” and “The Hispanic World” for Bullard High School in Fresno, California.

Los Angeles Unified School District, Tarzana (Outright: $115,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Teresa Hudock, (213) 740-2991
Project: World History and Literature Using Web Conferencing
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium implementation project using online resources and professional development seminars to strengthen the world history curriculum at Portola Middle School in Los Angeles, California.

KANSAS

West Junior High School, Lawrence (Outright: $140,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Karen Vespestad, (785) 832-5500
Project: Community Connections: Celebrating Diversity, Promoting Pluralism
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium implementation project in which students at West Junior High School in Lawrence, Kansas, will create an "electronic library" and a "living archive" for the study and preservation of local history and customs.

MARYLAND

University of Maryland, College Park (Outright: $165,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Adele Seeff, (301) 405-6830
Project: “Jubilee”: In Pursuit of the American Dream of Equality
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium implementation grant focusing on the ideas and history of the American Dream for all humanities faculty at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland.

MASSACHUSETTS

Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield (Outright: $175,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Timothy Neumann, (413) 744-7476
Project: Teaching American History Utilizing Digital Resources in a Rural Middle/High School Collaborative
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium implementation grant to infuse the United States history curriculum at Frontier Regional High School in western Massachusetts with new digitized resources and intellectual content to meet recently adopted state frameworks.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Humanities School of Beaufort, Beaufort (Outright: $100,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Margaret Rushton, (843) 525-4477
Project: Creating a Sense of Place
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium implementation grant to the Humanities School of Beaufort on the history and culture of a South Carolina Low Country community.

TENNESSEE

Memphis City Schools, Memphis (Outright: $160,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Elsie L. Bailey, (901) 775-7240
Project: The Memphis Civil Rights Movement: Exploring Its History, Assessing Its Impact
Description: A Schools for A New Millennium implementation grant to Booker T. Washington High School on the history of the Civil Rights movement in Memphis.

TEXAS

Rice University, Houston (Outright: $175,000, Matching: $5,000)
Director: Leslie M. Miller, (713) 285-5352
Project: Community in History: A Middle School Implementation
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium implementation grant designed to engage faculty and students at Hogg Middle School in examining their community, its history, and its state, national, and global contexts.