Participating Schools, NPAHE Graduate Students
Funding for the NPAHE is provided by a United States Department of Education
Teaching American History Grant.
Partners
Educational Service Unit 7
Department of History, UNL
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education, UNL
History
The Nebraska Partnership is one of 60 projects nationwide selected in October 2001 for funding of $931,935 under a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grant (TAHG). Grant awards were made to local education agencies to work in partnership with institutions of higher learning, non-profit history or humanities organizations, and/or libraries and museums. TAHG program goals are to demonstrate how such partnerships can collaborate over a three-year period in comprehensive professional development to provide high-quality American history instruction. The focus is on teacher development of knowledge and skills in teaching the entirety of American History in exciting and engaging ways to raise student achievement.
Goals
- To provide exemplary professional development for secondary American History teachers which increases teachers' knowledge of the entirety of United States History
- To improve teachers' effectiveness in American History with a variety of instructional methods proven to engage students and to increase student achievement
- To provide resources, including print and electronic, for American History teachers to enhance their classroom instruction
- To establish an ongoing network of American History colleagues throughout and beyond Nebraska
Topics of Study
In three annual sessions (spring and fall workshops and summer institutes) secondary and postsecondary instructors will undertake rigorous intellectual study of a number of topics in American History. Sessions on instructional approaches will be held at each of the workshops. The entirety of U.S. History will be covered over the three-year granting period. Topics to be included during the three years include:
- Colonial America and the American Revolution
- U.S. Constitutional History
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Native American History
- Post World War II America
- The United States and World Wars I and II
- America 1877-1920
- History of the U.S. Presidency
- U.S. Women's History
- African American History
- U.S. Immigration History
| Aquinas High School School Website: N/A District Website: http://aquinas.esu7.org/ |
| Aurora High School School Website: http://www.aurora.k12.ne.us/high_school.htm District Website: http://www.aurora.k12.ne.us/ |
| Clarkson Jr-Sr. High School School Website: N/A District Website: http://teachers.esu7.org/clarkson/ |
| Crete High School School Website: http://www.creteschools.org/hshomepage04.htm District Website: http://www.creteschools.org/ |
| David City Secondary School School Website: N/A District Website: http://www.davidcitypublicschools.org/ |
| High School at Brainard School Website: http://www.ebutler.esu7.org/eastbutler.html District Website:N/A |
| Humphrey Jr-Sr. High School School Website: http://www.humphrey.esu7.org/ District Website:N/A |
| Lexington High School School Website: http://teachers.esu10.org/lexhs/ District Website: http://www.lex.esu10.org/ |
| Ogallala Middle School School Website: http://www.opsd.org/oms.htm District Website: http://www.opsd.org/ |
| Schuyler West Ward Elementary School Website: http://www.esu7.org/~sgsweb/sgs.html District Website: N/A |
| Secondary School at Raymond School Website: http://www.rcentral.org/ District Website: N/A |
| Sidney High School School Website: http://www.sidneyraiders.com/shs/shs.html District Website: http://www.sidneyraiders.com |
| St. Francis Central High School School Website: http://teachers.esu7.org/stfran/ District Website: N/A |
| Twin River Sr. High School School Website: N/A District Website: http://esu7.org/~trweb/ |
| Valentine High School School Website: http://www.esu17.k12.ne.us/~valjourn/index.html District Website: http://www.valentinecityschools.org |
| Winside High School School Website: N/A District Website: http://winside.esu1.org/ |
NPAHE Graduate Students
| Website reviews Travis Brady Aaron Wilson Brenden Rensink |
Research reviews Linda Kosch Karla Scheele |
Local history Ann Tschetter Elaine Nelson Matt Garrett |
U.S. history John Jacobsen Mark Van Rhyn Kurt Kinbacher |