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ABOUT HISTORY SPEAKS: NOT JUST WORDS ON PAPER
Columbus City Schools has partnered with Ashland University, the Ohio Historical Society, and the National Constitution Center, to establish History Speaks: Not Just Words on Paper, a program designed to increase teachers' knowledge, understanding, appreciation, and delivery of traditional American history content for approximately 120 teachers (grades 8-12) to raise student achievement on state-mandated tests for 18,000 students.
The mission of History Speaks is to create highly-effective teachers who will teach traditional American history content as important, relevant, and reawakened. They will see how the words and deeds of Americans have been reflected, time and again, in the concepts of a singular document, the United States Constitution. The document is not just words on paper, preserved under glass, but an on-going series of conversations among Americans, from and across the 18th through the 21st century. These conversations have defined, shaped, and explained the significant episodes of American history.
History Speaks concentrates on building teachers' knowledge of six Core Themes of American History based on the six promises in the Preamble to the United States Constitution. The themes are: (1) Form a More Perfect Union: the Constitution and American Democratic Institutions; (2) Establish Justice: Social Movements and Social Change; (3) Insure Domestic Tranquility: Defining American Identity; (4) Provide for the Common Defense: American Foreign Relations; (5) Promote the General Welfare: American Economic History; and (6) Secure the Blessings of Liberty for Ourselves and Our Posterity: Migration and Immigration.
The mission of History Speaks is to create highly-effective teachers who will teach traditional American history content as important, relevant, and reawakened. They will see how the words and deeds of Americans have been reflected, time and again, in the concepts of a singular document, the United States Constitution. The document is not just words on paper, preserved under glass, but an on-going series of conversations among Americans, from and across the 18th through the 21st century. These conversations have defined, shaped, and explained the significant episodes of American history.
History Speaks concentrates on building teachers' knowledge of six Core Themes of American History based on the six promises in the Preamble to the United States Constitution. The themes are: (1) Form a More Perfect Union: the Constitution and American Democratic Institutions; (2) Establish Justice: Social Movements and Social Change; (3) Insure Domestic Tranquility: Defining American Identity; (4) Provide for the Common Defense: American Foreign Relations; (5) Promote the General Welfare: American Economic History; and (6) Secure the Blessings of Liberty for Ourselves and Our Posterity: Migration and Immigration.