HOW:  The Native Americans of the Great Lakes Workshop
Records from the Bureau of Indian Affairs can shed light on Indian
boarding schools, relocation efforts, and other interactions between
various tribes and the federal government in our area during the late
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Copies of documents and ideas for
classroom integration will be shared.

WHERE:  The National Archives at Chicago
7358 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, near Ford City and Midway Airport

WHEN: Thursday, March 4, 2010 from 4:30 - 6:30 PM

ETC.:  CPDUs are available and there is no charge for this workshop. 
To register, send the information listed below to Kris Maldre,
Education Specialist via e-mail at kristina dot maldre at nara dot gov or fax at
773-948-9050. Upon receipt we will confirm workshop registration with an
e-mail.

Name:
School:
Preferred Mailing Address:
City, State, Zip code:
E-mail Address:
Phone:

Questions, concerns, or seeking information on additional workshops,
please contact Kris Maldre at 773-948-9010 or via e-mail at
kristina dot maldre at nara dot gov or visit our web site at
http://www.archives.gov/great-lakes/archives/

Discover their identities and how their court cases can help you explore Civil Rights and Prohibition with your students at a National Archives at Chicago workshop!

The “Crime of the ‘20s and Civil Rights through Court Records” workshop will also explore prohibition-related arrests and gangster antics, as well as lawsuits and related activities for integrated schools and fair housing.

This workshop will be held on Thursday, January 14, from 4:30 - 6:30 PM at our facility near Ford City Mall and Midway Airport at 7358 South Pulaski Road in Chicago. We are approximately one block west of South Pulaski Road on West 75th Street.

CPDUs are also available for this FREE workshop.

To register, send the information listed below to Kris Maldre, Education Specialist via e-mail at kristina dot maldre at nara dot gov or fax at 773-948-9050. Upon receipt we will confirm workshop registration with an e-mail.

Name:
School:
Preferred Mailing Address:
City, State, Zip code:
E-mail Address:
Phone:

Questions, concerns, or seeking information on additional workshops, please contact Kris Maldre at 773-948-9010 or via e-mail at kristina dot maldre at nara dot gov or visit our web site at < http://www.archives.gov/great-lakes/archives/ >

Moving Toward High Quality Induction and Mentoring

4th Annual Winter Conference
February 24-25, 2009
Hilton - Springfield, Illinois

We invite you to present what you are learning from your experiences to other conference
attendees by sharing challenges and promising practices from your program. Sessions should be
45 to 50 minutes and should address one of the following conference categories:

1. Mentor recruitment, selection, ongoing professional development and
support for mentors.

2. Supporting the development of beginning teacher practice

3. Collaborative leadership for mentoring and induction.

4. Program Assessment and Research - Ongoing assessment of program
effectiveness

The deadline for presentation proposals is November 15, 2008. Proposals will
be accepted through the online form ONLY. Presenters will be notified of
their selection no later than early January, 2009.

For more detailed information and to submit a presentation proposal access visit the Illinois New Teacher Collaborative website.

NOVEMBER 21st, 2009
10am-5pm
Orozco Academy in Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood
1940 W. 18th Street (Corner of Damen)
Free and open to all peoples

ORGANIZED BY TEACHERS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE of Chicago and with support from a network of wonderful progressive & radical educator organizations around the country, this year’s Curriculum Fair will be welcoming over 500 educators of all kinds from Illinois, New York, Wisconsin, California, Oregon, Indiana & more.

WE’RE CREATING A SPACE where teachers can “exhibit” & share social justice-related curriculum they’ve created. Speak up if you’ve got it! Where teachers, young people & youth organizers can offer vital workshop trainings. Where organizations can share resources & energy. Where we can hear stories from some of the countries finest. Where folks can network, offer knowledge, get supported, get uplifted.

All in the name of building an Education Movement for Liberation…

EVERYTHING IS VOLUNTEER-DRIVEN. And there’s lunch, arts on display & healing space offered. Straight up.

PLEASE SAY YES! Though pre-registration isn’t required. Show up for an hour or all day.

THEN GET INVOLVED OF COURSE! We need you to do what you do.

- Download a flyer here: http://bit.ly/Lz1mb

- If you’re a CPS teacher and would like a poster in the mail run, please email dmoralesdoyle(at)gmail.com with your mail run number.

- If you’re interested in sharing a social justice-related curriculum, we love you the most and you can sign up at http://teachersforjustice.org with questions & idea submissions.

- If you’d like to present a workshop or have a resource table at the fair, we also love you and you can sign on at: http://teachersforjustice.org

- If you want to join a planning committee in one of the areas below, please signup at http://bit.ly/HhZFb and we’ll contact you asap.

# Outreach, Poster Distribution, and Event Materials Printing (can you get free copies?)
# Food team (folks needed asap to help find locally cooked donations)
# Setup team (just show up with your bad self, free coffee yall!)
# Cleanup team (free… maximum satisfaction!)
# Arts & After Party (haven’t planned it, but we sure want to. If only we had enough volunteers...)
# Curriculum Collection Project (help us follow through on all the wonderful work)
# Put me somewhere where I’m needed! (that’s the spirit!)

This year’s fair will also feature poets from the Young Chicago Authors family, Multimedia from local, national & international struggles, and a special report-back session with TSJ’s representatives going on the Honduran Resistance Delegation.

OUR STUDENTS NEED DEARLY FOR US TO ALL BUILD TOGETHER. Please spread the word about this gathering. Thank you

And much blessings & thanks to our friends from Rethinking Schools for their ongoing support and the wonderful volunteers who have already stepped up.

Celebrate the 2009-2010 school year with The Field Museum! Explore our
permanent exhibitions, including the newly-renovated Grainger Hall of Gems,
visit behind-the-scenes with scientists, and delve into hands-on activity
stations. The first 300 pre-registered educators who check-in will receive a
ticket to our newest temporary exhibition, The Nature of Diamonds. Gather
a wealth of information and materials to start your school year off right.

- Visit The Nature of Diamonds (First 300 pre-registered teachers
to check-in will receive ticket)
- Check out our newly renovated Grainger Hall of Gems
- Learn about Mammoths and Mastodons - our temporary exhibition opening in
Spring
- Visit behind-the-scenes with scientists
- Explore digital learning opportunities like WhyReef
- Gather information about new student and teacher programs
- Receive a Nature of Diamonds Educator Guide, Field Museum Educator
Resource CD, and more

Pre-registration is required; call 312.665.7500 or email
jhankey at fieldmuseum dot org.
Please note your name, school and number of teacher
guests.

$15-$19 parking is available at Soldier Field, cash only.
Enter the Museum through the East Doors.

This event is for educators only.

Active Transportation Alliance offers several programs targeted at elementary schools (grades 3-6). Our FREE health initiatives for schools include the curricular Walk Across Illinois School Fitness Program, non-curricular Mileage Challenge, and the Walk the Walk Challenge for teachers. We provide curricula, certified professional development trainings, incentives and a lot more.

If you know of a school that is interested in creating a healthy environment for students to Get Active & Get Going, contact Dan Persky at (312) 427-3325 Ext. 229 or dan at activetrans dot org.

School Fitness Program
Our Approach
The Walk Across Illinois School Fitness Program offers elementary schools a low cost, interdisciplinary approach to increasing physical activity in school and at home.
Participating students are motivated to meet weekly physical activity goals (15 miles) through Walk Across Illinois’ unique, grade-specific virtual walks, which take students to new destinations across the state as they log their weekly miles. Over the 25-week program, students complete a personal 375-mile walk, during which they learn about Illinois history in PE and the Classroom. Students earn their miles through exercise activities in schools, and through personal extracurricular and daily activities.
By completing a 375-mile route in 25 weeks, students meet the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Disease Control’s suggested amount of daily physical activity, which is sixty minutes, or three miles, for children and teens.
In the Classroom
The Walk Across Illinois School Fitness Program includes an interdisciplinary, standards-based classroom curriculum, which engages students in in-depth weekly lessons about each location on their virtual walk. Lesson plans and supporting materials have been designed to provide teachers with the tools necessary to easily and successfully integrate Walk Across Illinois into the classroom without taking away from instructional time.
Each week students are taken to a new location, where they meet math standards ranging from data collection and analysis, to language arts standards in writing focused on communicating to various audiences. In addition to a specific content area focus, each lesson features new vocabulary. Many lessons include important bicycle and pedestrian safety information, as well as healthy eating information, based on the USDA’s Team Nutrition program. The classroom curriculum includes five benchmark assessments and one summative assessment to gauge student progress across the 25-week program.
Classroom teachers encourage students to maintain a physically active lifestyle at home, and to track their weekly progress on their Walk Across Illinois. Teachers use our simple online mileage-tracking program to report their weekly classroom miles.
In P.E. Class
A highlight of the Walk Across Illinois School Fitness Program is the grade-specific PE curricula, which have been designed to meet all Illinois Learning Standards in Physical Development and Health during the 25-week program. Each curricula features weekly lessons, which are designed to engage students in at least 45 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity, in order to achieve their daily 60 minute or 3 mile goal. Students complete two to three miles of physical activity each week with the activities provided in the P.E. curriculum.
The PE program features inclusive, non-competitive activities, which help students build important sports-related skills, while learning about character building, bicycle and pedestrian safety, and healthy eating.
At Home
To achieve the goal of 60 minutes of physical activity every day, students complete at least 12 miles each week outside of P.E. class by participating in fun activities like walking to and from school, playing on a sports team, or going for a walk with family. The Walk Across Illinois School Fitness Program engages families in the process of getting fit and active by providing teachers with customizable family letters and Walk Across Illinois Destination Cards to send home, which feature program information and practical tips for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Students track their physical activity at home and work with their families to meet their daily physical activity goal.

Mileage Challenge
Our Approach
The Mileage Challenge offers a flexible approach to increasing active transportation to and from school by giving elementary and middle schools the ability to select from a variety of unique virtual routes and choose the one that meets the needs of their students. Each route has a special theme and includes unique locations. Routes are of varying lengths, giving schools the option of choosing a longer or shorter one depending on how long they wish to implement the Walk Across Illinois Mileage Challenge.
Students track the miles they walk or roll to and from school each day. Schools have the choice of using our Passport to Illinois to record student miles each day, or they may opt to have students record their own miles on a mile log sheet or in a notebook. School staff or students then log on to our user-friendly website at http://www.WalkAcrossIllinois.org to report and track miles, and learn about the route locations they reach as they travel across the Land of Lincoln.

My name is Mark and I am an experienced music technology lecturer within further and higher education; I have built a free online resource for music technology/music teachers and students at http://www.musicproducerxxx.com; it is my hope that this will become the largest digital repository for music tuition videos (great for incorporating into your own lesson plans) in the world.

In order for this to happen I need more music tech and music teachers to get involved, so if you have any videos you wish to post or have already posted elsewhere or want to access a wide range of videos for your own lessons please register with my site.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Mark

Seminar Features:
-Open to all Chicago area teachers at no cost
-Each led by a Newberry Library Research Center Director
-Pre-seminar readings on topics
-Presentation of original items from the Newberry collections
-Classroom materials provided by the History Channel
-Full day seminars - 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
-Breakfast, Lunch and CPDU credits provided

Seminar Topics and Dates:
Friday, October 9, 2009: Traveling Through Time with Maps of Discovery, Exploration, and Travel
Led by James Akerman, Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography and Robert Karrow, Jr. Curator of Special Collections and Curator of Maps.

Friday, November 6, 2009: European and Indigenous Encounters in the Colonial Americas
Led by Carla Zecher, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies and Garry Sparks, Ph D Candidate at the University of Chicago.

Friday, November 20, 2009: Portraying Native America: Representations of Native Americans at the Newberry
Led by Scott M. Stevens, Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History and Diane Dillon, Assistant Director for Research and Education at the Newberry Library.

Friday, December 4, 2009: Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom
Led by Daniel Greene, Director of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture, and James Grossman, Vice-President for Research and Education at the Newberry Library.

For program details, seminar descriptions, and registration information visit the Newberry Library Teacher Programs website at:

http://www.newberry.org/teacherprograms/historychannel/index.html

NOTE: Enrollment is limited to 26 teachers per seminar (only 2 teachers per school per seminar)

Program Generously Sponsored by the History Channel