John McNamara, social studies supervisor for grades 9 to 12, has been selected as the education coordinator for four week-long summer seminars sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. At each seminar McNamara will direct and mentor 30 educators from school districts across the United States in the development of teaching strategies and curriculum projects for selected units in United States History.
The first seminar, “Everyday Life in Early America,” will be offered at Yale University. The second seminar, “The Global Lincoln,” will be presented at Oxford University in England. The third seminar, “Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800,” will be offered at Johns Hopkins University, and the fourth seminar on the “International Impact of the Declaration of Independence” will be presented at the University of Virginia.
Brian Welsh, a social studies teacher at High School South, has been selected by the Gilder Lehrman Institute to participate in its weeklong summer seminar in July on “The 1960s in Historical Perspective,” which will be presented at Georgetown University.
Linda Dean, a social studies teacher at High School North, has been selected by the Gilder Lehrman Institute to participate in its weeklong summer seminar in July on “The Role of the Supreme Court in United States History” at Stanford University.
