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.
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