The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History



Yale Professor John Demos teaches a summer seminar on the Colonial Era.




Students at Benjamin Franklin High School in Los Angeles use the Founding Era box.





Each year, the US Department of Education awards more than $100 million through the Teaching American History (TAH) Grant Program to improve American history instruction in the nation’s schools. With more than ninety-five successful TAH grant partnerships, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has an excellent track record of providing teachers with outstanding professional development. The Institute will partner with your school district to customize a grant application tailored to your needs. We will work with your district to manage all aspects of the grant application including a needs assessment, grant writing, and evaluation.

For more information, contact Victoria Lain at (646) 366-9666 or lain@gilderlehrman.org


The Institute offers the following to its TAH grant partners:

Component One: Educational Resources

The Gilder Lehrman Institute provides teachers with educational resources in three genres: visual, print, and digital. These comprehensive resources are designed not only to increase teacher knowledge of core American history content, but also to offer exciting new ways of bringing American history into the classroom. Each teacher receives a personal copy of the materials listed below (excluding the traveling exhibition), which are also supported by supplemental material on the Gilder Lehrman website. For more information about this component, click here.

Component Two: Staff Development Workshop

During each grant year, the Gilder Lehrman Institute will provide a planning session, one intensive staff development workshop, and two additional historian visits during the academic year. These workshops and visits provide teachers with direct access to award-winning historians, and topics tailored to teachers' needs. Possible topics include: Causes and Principles of the Revolution; Origins and Consequences of the American Civil War; the Age of Progressive Reform; Immigration and Identity; and World War I. For more information about this component, click here.

Component Three: Summer Seminar Participation

During each grant year, the Institute will reserve places in its array of thirty summer seminars for teachers led by award-winning professors. Often singled out by participants as their best staff development experience, these one-week seminars are taught by outstanding scholars such as Patricia Limerick, Alan Brinkley, Ken Jackson, Gary Gallagher, and Richard Carwardine, at colleges and universities throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom. For more information about this component, click here.

Component Four: Grant Administration

The Institute will manage all aspects of the grant application process on behalf of the school district. This includes performing a needs assessment, creating a content structure, identifying and securing an outside evaluator, and writing the entire grant application.

For a full brochure describing each component in detail, click here:



Click on the navigation on the right to access descriptions of package types.

Apply:

For application forms, go to the US DOE website at:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/index.html

For further information, please contact:


Victoria Lain, Education Coordinator
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
19 West 44th Street, Suite 500
New York, NY 10036
646-366-9666
Fax: 646-366-9669
lain@gilderlehrman.org



2008-2009 School District Partners:

Alabama
Jefferson County Board of Education
Madison County Board of Education
Tuscaloosa City Board of Education

Arizona
Deer Valley Unified School District

Arkansas
Little Rock School District

California
Del Norte County Unified School District (2 grants)
Pasadena School District
San Bernadino School District
Northern Humboldt Union High School District (2 grants)

Florida
Lake County Schools
Monroe County School District
Orange County
School District of Osceola County
The School District of Palm Beach County

Georgia
Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (2 grants)

Hawaii
Hawaii State Department of Education

Idaho
Madison School District

Illinois
Rockford Public Schools
Woodstock School District

Kansas
Andover School District
Valley Heights Unified School District

Kentucky
West Kentucky Educational Cooperative
Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative (2 grants)

Louisiana
Algiers Charter School Association (2 grants)
Calcasieu Parish Public School System

Maryland
Baltimore City Public School System
Washington County Public Schools

Massachusetts
Newton Public Schools

Minnesota
Lakes Region Service Cooperative
Northwest Service Cooperative

Mississippi
Jackson Public Schools
Simpson County School District

New Jersey
Newark Public Schools
Passaic County Technical Institute

New York
New York City Department of Education Citywide (2 grants)
New York City Department of Education Consortium of Districts 3, 5, and 6 (Region 10)
New York City Department of Education District 27 (Queens)
Smithtown Central School District
Yonkers Public Schools

North Carolina
Guilford County Schools

Oklahoma
Osage County Interlocal Cooperative

Pennsylvania
Greencastle-Antrim School District

South Carolina
Orangeburg Consolidated School District

South Dakota
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative

Tennessee
Bledsoe County School System
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools
Williamson County Schools and Maury County Public Schools

Texas
Pasadena Independent School District

Utah
Alpine School District
Northern Utah Curriculum Consortium

Virgin Islands
St. John & St. Croix School District

Virginia
Chesterfield County Public Schools
Richmond Public Schools
Stafford County, Spotsylvania, and Caroline County Public Schools
Waynesboro Public Schools

Washington
Clarkston School District
Vancouver Educational Service District 112

Wisconsin
Milwaukee Public Schools










Documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection.