Welcome to

Adapting Project HISTORY

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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

Keep Your Deck Chairs Facing Forward!!!