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.
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