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Comment by Cris Martin on April 9, 2012 at 3:07pm

 

The Outreach Program at the Davis Center is pleased to announce a one-day workshop devoted to Understanding the Soviet Space Race. The workshop will feature four lectures devoted to the origins and history of the Space Race in the USSR (for more details, please see complete agenda below). The workshop is free and open to the public. Full day attendance is not required, but RSVPs are appreciated.

 

Workshop, Understanding the Soviet Space Race

Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program

 

Friday, April 27, 2012

9am--4pm

*Note location* 61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA

 

9:00—9:30 AM Welcome and Introductions

                      Cris Martin, Davis Center

 

9:30—11:00 AM  Lecture: Two Russian Revolutions: Science, Technology, and the Early Soviet State

                         Maya Peterson, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of Science, Harvard University

11:00—11:15 AM Break

 

11:15—12:45 PM Lecture: Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Culture, and the Origins of the Space Race

                          Asif Siddiqi, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University

 

12:45—1:30 PM  Lunch Break

 

1:30—2:30 PM    Lecture: A History of Russian Technology: Is Space an Exception?

                          Loren Graham, Senior Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University

                                                               

2:30—3:45 PM    Lecture: Soviet Cosmonauts in a Propaganda Machine: The Human Side of a                                     

                          Public Icon

                         Slava Gerovitch, Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, MIT

 

 

*For more information about this workshop or to RSVP, please contact Cris Martin at clmartin@fas.harvard.edu.*

Comment by Vibha Shah on March 13, 2011 at 9:12pm

The Indic Center of University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth along with the Uberoi foundation for Dharmic traditions is offering Fellowship to teachers. This program is for Middle and High school social studies teachers to learn about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.

 

Participants will be required to attend any one of the two five-day training sessions, Session I:July 18-22 or Session II: July 25-29, at UMass Dartmouth. This will be an immersion program with cultural events in the evenings. Teachers selected for the Uberoi Foundation Fellowship can choose to get either 3-graduate credits only or $500 stipend and 67.5 professional development points. Selected applicants will also be provided with a set of training materials and an honorary certificate from the Uberoi Foundation Fellowship. Local housing will be made available to teachers traveling long distances for attending the program.

 

Teaching material

 

•             Prepared by University professors who are expert in their fields.

•             Booklet specially prepared for teachers to cover the Dharmic traditions.

•             Slides and DVDs provided for classroom activities.

•             Website available for interactive learning and resources.

•             The Center for Indic Studies provides continuous support to teachers by answering questions and making resources available, including guest lecturers.

 

Training program

 

•             Lectures, demonstrations, experience, music, food, dress, and more.

•             Lesson plans under supervision of UMass Education professors

•             PDP or graduate course credit from UMass Dartmouth

•             Stipend, room and board.

•             Networking.

 

Former Uberoi Fellow responses

 

•             I feel like it’s increased my knowledge base so much, but also it was so refreshing to be a student, well cared for and welcomed in a class, and asked to do one thing-open your mind and learn something.  It gave me a burst of renewed energy for September.

 

•             As a seventh grade Massachusetts teacher covering ancient civilizations, I was most interested in the ancient history and the practices of Dharmic cultures, the yoga, meditation and philosophies.  I really enjoyed the “field trips” we took, because it made the information come alive.

 

Anyone interested should contact: uff@umassd.edu

Comment by Tim Powers on May 1, 2009 at 9:35am

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Wiley-Blackwell is proud to announce that the online review journal, History Compass, is now available at a special price rate of $350(year) for High Schools. History Compass has made its name as the go-to Review Journal in History at the undergraduate level & these tools are now available to your Staff and Students.

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• History Compass offers your Teachers and Students the quality of a scholarly journal combined with the speed and functionality of the Web.
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• Survey nature of the articles ensures that higher level content is approachable for all students: providing a great tool to introduce your Honors, AP, and IB students to scholarly work.
• History Compass includes great teaching tools such as: Teacher’s Guides for selected articles, Blogs, Podcasts, and an International Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference on the Humanities scheduled for October of 2009.

Please follow this link to see an online demo of History Compass and how it can help support your History Education Goals:
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History Compass is available for a yearly subscription at the Special High School rate of $350.
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Comment by Ben McClenahan on April 22, 2009 at 11:03am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For More Information:
Ana Post
301.588.1800, Ext. 114
apost@ncss.org


“Dreams and Deeds: The Civic Mission of Schools” NCSS Annual Conference to Convene in Atlanta, Georgia


Silver Spring, Md. – April 17, 2009 - More than 3,500 teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and school officials will gather in Atlanta, Georgia for the 89th National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference, “Dreams and Deeds: The Civic Mission of Schools,” Nov. 13-15, 2009.

“As social studies educators, especially in times of challenge, we embrace our responsibility to serve our communities by preparing young people to participate in active citizenship,” said Syd Golston, NCSS President-Elect. Golston added that the NCSS Annual Conference, with more than 400 clinics, sessions, workshops, and poster sessions, will highlight how the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities—social studies—prepares students to become effective and productive citizens in an ever changing world.

Major speakers at the conference include:

• Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Barack Obama’s younger sister, a Ph.D. in International Comparative Education from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Soetoro-Ng is a social studies educator with a lifelong commitment to the power of non-violent conflict resolution.

• Greg Mortenson, best–selling author of “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time,” and recently named Person of the Week by ABC News. Mortenson has dedicated his life to promoting community-based education and literacy programs in remote mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

• Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of “Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World.” Foner is one of this country's most prominent historians on Abraham Lincoln and on the history of American race relations.

• Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University, and author of “History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving.” Lipstadt represented President George W. Bush as a member of the official American delegation to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

• John A. Stokes, the co-author of “Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and me,” in which he gives an eyewitness account of the “Manhattan Project,” the strike that ultimately became part of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education case ordering the desegregation of all public schools in 1954.

Vital Issues sessions and panels include: “The Civic Mission of Schools,” featuring Carl D. Glickman, University Professor Emeritus, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Peter Levine, Director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), and Ted McConnell, Executive Director, Campaign for the Civic Mission if Schools; a blue ribbon Economics panel featuring Professors Mark Schug (University of Wisconsin), Richard McDonald (St. Cloud University, and George Vredeveld (University of Cincinnati), explaining the current economic crisis for non-economics teachers; and an international Social Studies education panel featuring educators from four continents, discussing curriculum development and social education in their countries.

Other Conference highlights include:

• a seminar on Teaching American History (TAH) grants with TAH Grants Director Alex Stein, and more than 100 sessions ideal for TAH grantees;
• a workshop for pre-service teachers on preparing for the PRAXIS social studies examination;
• clinics at the Martin Luther King Center, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Georgia Public Broadcasting, the Cherokee Historic Site at New Echota, and the Breman JewishHeritage and Holocaust Museum;
• special sessions and speakers ranging from teaching about the economic crisis to the Abraham Linc