History Speaks, Teaching American History
Columbus City Schools partnered with Ashland University and the Ohio History Connection to establish History Speaks: Not Just Words on Paper, a program designed to increase teachers' knowledge, understanding, appreciation, and delivery of American history content.
The mission of History Speaks is to create highly-effective teachers who will teach 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.
The pages linked on the menu showcase some of the seminar content from Saturday seminars between 2008 and 2014.
The mission of History Speaks is to create highly-effective teachers who will teach 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.
The pages linked on the menu showcase some of the seminar content from Saturday seminars between 2008 and 2014.