SCHOOLS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: April 2002

CALIFORNIA

Acaciawood College Preparatory Academy, Anaheim (Outright: $98,987)
Director: Sandra Yang, (714) 995-1800
Project: Digitally Preserving Adolescent Memories of World War II: Incorporating Oral History in the Humanities Related Curricula
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium oral history project to document the lives of Holocaust survivors, Japanese-American internees, and World War II homefront workers.

Grinnell-Newburg Community School District, Grinnell (Outright: $98,698)
Director: David Stoakes, (641) 236-2724
Project: A Community of Learners
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium collaboration between Grinnell Community High School and Grinnell College to create curricular units on images of American greatness and prairie studies as well as a senior seminar.

Franklin Pierce College, Rindge (Outright: $97,692)
Director: John Harris, (603) 899-4010
Project: Discovering Our Home Ground: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Place and Community
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium collaboration between Keene School District and the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College around the themes of place and community.

CUNY, City College, New York (Outright: $100,000)
Director: Norman P. Shapiro, (212) 650-5880
Project: Culture Quest
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium collaboration between Mott Hall School and City College developed around an exploration of Japanese, Dominican, and other cultures in New York City.

Puppetry in Practice, Brooklyn (Outright: $99,999)
Director: Tova Ackerman, (718) 854-0507
Project: Folktales: Structuring Meaning-Connecting Folktales to Our Lives
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium collaboration between Puppetry in Practice and two Pre-K-5 schools in Brooklyn to assist teachers in the teaching of folktales.

Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Barranquitas (Outright: $94,923)
Director: Leonides Colón-Burgos, (787) 857-3600
Project: La Formación de un Pueblo: Strengthening History through the use of Technology
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project for the development of three web-based curricular units articulating the middle school and high school history sequence, supported by workshops for at least twenty teachers.

Charles N. Fortes Magnet Academy Museum School, Providence (Outright: $99,529)
Director: Marc Joel Levitt, (401) 278-0501
Project: Charles N. Fortes Museum Project
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project in a magnet elementary school in Providence, Rhode Island, chronicling school and neighborhood history.

Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence (Outright: $99,966)
Director: Melissa Bingmann, (401) 331-8575
Project: Central Falls Community Initiative
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium collaboration between the Rhode Island Historical Society and Central Falls High School to offer teachers a professional development program on topics pertaining to community history.

University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire (Outright: $99,979)
Director: Katherine Howe Lang, (715) 836-4765
Project: Our Town Augusta: History in Public Places
Description: A Schools for a New Millennium project on local history for Augusta Middle/High School teachers to collaborate with faculty from the Art and History departments at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and La Crosse.