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Welcome to
Adapting Project HISTORY
Please turn off your cell phones.
A project of a consortium of school districts Led by the Utica City School
District and…
the Syracuse University
Maxwell School of
Citizenship
and Public
Affairs
and…
Fort Stanwix
The Erie
Canal
Museum
The Oneida County Historical Society
The Oneida Community Mansion House
Adapting Project HISTORY
• Director: Jamie Hanretty
• Principal Investigators (SU) Jim Carroll, Ph.D.
• Asst PI/Technology Spec Joe Montecalvo
Jim Carroll, Ph.D.• H. S. American
history teacher: 1967—1979
• Created Project LEGAL, 1976: Consortium of CNY Districts
Project LEGAL Overview
Project LEGAL
• New York State validation in 1979; relocated from Westhill to OCM-BOCES
Project LEGAL
• USDE validation in 1982, 1992 & 1996;
• Relocated from BOCES to SU in 1983
Project LEGAL
• Has been implemented in thirty four states
• Hungary, Croatia, and the US Virgin Islands
• Since 1983, adoption schools in over 1500 school districts, including all of the Project HISTORY districts
Project LEGAL
Joe Montecalvo, Asst. Director
In 1993, Jim hired Joe as a one-year grad assistant ; Joe learns HTML and LEGAL strategies are revised for the Internet under $7M+ Project TIPS grant for Bronx.
Project LEGAL: 1996—2010 Multi-Million $ Grants in…
• gifted education (Harlem)
• technology (Bronx)
• character education (Harlem & Yonkers)
• civics (Yonkers)
• all of which use LEGAL’s Internet applications to develop WebQuests and PowerPoints, leading to
Adapting Project HISTORY
Our Philosophy
Before we do an overview of…
Adapting Project HISTORY
Let’s review the underlying philosophy of all of our projects
Adapting Project HISTORY• Historians’
• In-service
• Standards
• Technology integration
• Outside
• Resources
• Yearly
Historians’ In-service
Seminars/workshops conducted by:
• J. Carroll
• J. Montecalvo
• Maxwell & Lemoyne American History Faculty
Historians’ In-serviceMaxwell & Lemoyne American History Faculty*
Ralph Ketcham: The Founding Period Roger Sharp: The Age of JacksonDoug Egerton: Slavery & the aftermath of the Civil War
Margaret Thompson: Religion in U.S. HistoryAndrew Cohen: Industrialization & Rise of Labor John Briggs: Immigration in the 20th CenturyDavid Bennett: Military History in the 20th Century*depending on availability
Standards
Align curriculum to NYS learning standards
Technology Integration
Teachers create & integrate WebQuests & PowerPoints and…
Technology Integration
…integrate our unique Internet applications:
The Public Policy Analyst
The American History Public Policy Analyst
CompuLEGAL
Public Policy Analyst (PPA)
• Define the Problem
• Gather Evidence
• Identify Causes
• Evaluate an Existing Policy
• Develop Solutions
• Select the Best Solution
Our CompuLEGAL Application
• Interactive case method on-line with over 60 land- mark cases.
Outside Resources Yearly
• Fort Stanwix
• Oneida County Historical Society
• Erie Canal Museum
• Oneida Community Mansion House
The CNY Consortium Districts
Utica (Lead District)
Holland Patent, Mt. Markham,
Oriskany, Rome, Westmoreland,
Whitesboro, et.al.
A Five Year Project• HISTORY is an in-depth project with 2
cadres of 25 teachers, each for 30 months
• Substantive content will be arranged chronologically over two 30-month periods, starting with the colonial period and the founding in year 1 and ending with recent American history
Annual Teacher Requirements
• Attend Seminars & Museum Presentations(4 release days, several afterschool workshops)
• Pre-Post Testing of Teachers & Students
• Participants develop a WebQuest (online lesson plan) and a PowerPoint lesson, use them with students, and present results at final workshop
50 Teacher Participants
25 in each cadre(1) 7/1/10—1/31/13;
(2) 2/1/13—6/30/15
Cadre 1: 25 Teachers
Week of August 23, 2010: 12 hours (W—F)
4 Release Days: Sep, Nov, Jan, Mar, May
4-5 after school or half day Sat. during school year
Year 2: (2011—2012) repeats Year 1 schedule, with new topics and presenters
Year 3: No Aug 2013 sessions; Release Days: Sep, Nov, Jan; 4 after school or half day Sat. workshops (tech assistance through June 2015)
Teacher Benefits•Visits to museums and historical sites
•Seminars on American history topics presented by
distinguished faculty members from SU & Lemoyne
•Training on developing WebQuest and PowerPoint lessons
using the AHPPA
•Access to helpful teaching and research resources on the
Adapting Project HISTORY website
•Annual trips to historic Northeast cities (Boston, DC, Phil.)
•3, free graduate credits from Lemoyne College (year 3)
In Closing
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