History Grows in Oakland Teaching
American History in
an Urban School District
funded
by the US Department of Education
in partnership with
the University of California,
Berkeley, the Oakland Museum
and the Oakland Unified School
District, Oakland, California
Guest speakers,
lesson study planning, discussion
groups and more at the 2007
OUSD TAHG Summer Institute to
be held at UC Berkeley, 370G
Dwinelle Hall. (see
map)
Professor John Smolenski,
University of California,
Davis
OUSD TAH In-Service
Mills College
May 2007
GUEST
SPEAKER May.
2007
Rethinking the “French
& Indian War”: Native
Americans and the Seven-Year
War
Professor John
Smolenski discusses the role
of Native Americans in both
the origins and conduct of the
Seven Years sWar. He also shows
how the outcome of that war
impacted Native Americans and
led to the diminution of their
power.
Professor Monica Fitzgerald
California State University,
East Bay
GUEST
SPEAKER Dec.
2006
"The Salem Witchcraft Trials"
Professor Monica
Fitzgerald gives background
information on Puritanism in
support of teachers' upcoming
lesson study on Salem Witch
Trials using historical fiction,
Salem Witch (My Side of
the Story) by Patricia
Hermes.
Professor David Henkin
University of California,
Berkeley
GUEST
SPEAKER Nov.
2006
"The Indian War of 1812"
Did US foreign
policy affect policies and attitutes
towrds Native Americans in the
early years of the republic?
Professor David Henkin examines
this question in light of the
focus of this year's grant for
grade 8 & 11 teachers--
"US foreign policty".
Guest speaker Bruce
VanSledright, University
of Maryland.
GUEST
SPEAKER Oct.
2006
"Teaching With Historical
Fiction – Challenges,
Possibilities, and Questions"
Guest speaker
Bruce VanSledright, University
of Maryland gave the opening
lecture at the 2006-2007 TAHG
grant for grade 5 teachers.
The focus for this year's grant
is "using historical fiction
in the history classroom".
Guest speaker Robin Einhorn
gave the opening lecture
at the 2006 TAHG Summer
Institute held at UC Berkeley.
GUEST
SPEAKER June,
2006
"What is Federalism?"
Historian Robin
Einhorn discusses federalism
as a system of government in
the United States. Her lecture
charts the shifting boundaries
as well as the content of the
relationship between federal
and state powers from both a
fiscal and legal perspective.
Professor Clarence Walker
discusses the significance
of the 1857 Supreme Court
ruling Dred Scott V. Sanford
in the period leading
up to the US Civil War
GUEST
SPEAKER June,
2006
"Dred Scott & the Coming
of the Civil War"
In its 1857 ruling Dred Scott
v. Sanford, the Supreme Court
sought to solve the slavery controversy.
Instead the decision intensified
sectional strife between North
and South.
Professors
Eric
Foner and Catherine
Lewis, two of the
featured speakers at
the 2006 Spring conference
sponsored by OUSD Teaching
American History Grant
and UC, Berkeley History-Social
Science Project
CONFERENCE May
20, 2006
"Teachers
at the Center: Lesson Study
and the Teaching of American
History" conference held
at UC Berkeley attracted over
120 participants and featured
two keynote speakers, Eric Foner,
Columbia University, and Catherine
Lewis, Mills College. In addition,
OUSD TAH grant particpants presented
a number of workshops highlighting
their work with lesson study
in grades 5, 8 and 11. To read
more about the conference highlights
follow the link below.
