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 eighty 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 Sarah Morgan at (646) 366-9666 or morgan@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:

Sarah Morgan, 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
morgan@gilderlehrman.org


2007-2008 School District Partners:

Alabama
Jefferson County Board of Education (Birmingham)
Madison County School District (2 grants)
Tuscaloosa City Schools
Arkansas
Little Rock School District
Arizona
Deer Valley Unified School District
California
Del Norte County Unified School District (2 grants)
Northern Humboldt Union High School District (2 grants)
Florida
Broward County Public Schools
Lake County Schools
Monroe County School District
The 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
Grangeville Joint District Schools
Illinois
St. Clair County Regional Office of Education
Kansas
Valley Heights Unified School District
Kentucky
Jefferson County Public Schools (Louisville)
Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative (2 grants)
Louisiana
Algiers Charter School Association
Calcasieu Parish Public School System
Maryland
Baltimore City Public School System
Washington County Public Schools
Nebraska
Omaha Public Schools
New Jersey
Newark Public Schools
Passaic County Technical Institute
New Mexico
Santa Fe Public Schools
New York
Brooklyn Districts 17 and 22
New York City Department of Education Citywide
New York City Department of Education Consortium of Districts 6, 3, and 5
New York City Department of Education District 27
Yonkers Public Schools
Pennsylvania
Greencastle-Antrium School District
Tennessee
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools
Williamson County Schools and Maury County Public Schools
Texas
Region 16 Education Service Center, Amarillo
Utah
Northern Utah Curriculum Consortium
Virginia
Chesterfield County Public Schools
Richmond Public Schools
Washington
Clarkston School District
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Public Schools