Component Three: Teacher Seminars

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.

• Seminar topics include: Lincoln; the Cold War; the Civil Rights Movement; and the American Revolution.

• Accompanying materials include: books, a reader assembled by the lead scholar, and a copy of each participant’s document project at the conclusion of the seminar.

District personnel are responsible for travel for district participants. The Gilder Lehrman Institute will provide room and board and will provide stipends to participants upon successful completion of the seminar.

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.

2009 Application Deadline: TBA

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