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A Department of Education Teaching American History Grant to the Stratford Public Schools
Through this three-year grant, the Stratford Public School District is partnering with ILT, Fairfield University, New Britain Museum of American Art, the Organization of American Historians, and Yale University to provide an immersion program in traditional American history for secondary teachers. The project's goals include improving students' appreciation of U.S. history as a dynamic discipline, as well as their ability to recognize multiple perspectives, to support interpretations with evidence, to identify concepts, and to comprehend changes in interpretations over time. After-school interactive presentations by historians, workshops, summer institutes, technology training, and creation of a professional network are combined with visits to archival sites and documentation of classroom practices, resources, and historian presentations to preserve and build on project findings.
Thomas Thurston is Manager of the project.
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