On January 14, 2025, Humanities Texas will hold a webinar on strategies for teaching the Harlem Renaissance by incorporating digital humanities tools, augmented and virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.
Teacher Institutes
Upcoming Institutes and Workshops
In 2024, Humanities Texas will hold in-person and online programs for classroom teachers covering topics in U.S. history, government, Texas history, and English language arts.
On January 22, Humanities Texas will hold a webinar facilitated by educators from the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum to introduce teachers to their educational resources for teaching the Holocaust.
On January 28, 2025, Humanities Texas will hold a webinar introducing teachers to curriculum materials supporting classroom use of our Texas Originals radio program.
On February 5 and 12, the Digital Inquiry Group (DIG), formerly the Stanford History Education Group, will introduce social studies teachers to their Reading Like a Historian curriculum.
On February 10, 2025, Humanities Texas will hold a webinar facilitated by educators from the National Gallery of Art on teaching Civil War photography and developing visual literacy, historical thinking, and analysis skills.
On February 20, 2025, Humanities Texas will hold a webinar on using AI technologies in the humanities classroom and considering the role of AI in teaching research and writing at the secondary level.
On February 26 and 27, 2025, Humanities Texas will hold one-day workshops in San Antonio and Dallas on teaching the history of the Civil War.
On March 7, 2025, Humanities Texas will hold a one-day workshop in College Station on teaching the literature of major American wars, including the Civil War, World War I and II, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the War on Terror.
On April 8, 2025, Humanities Texas will hold a one-day workshop in Austin on twentieth-century Texas history.
On April 24, 2025, Humanities Texas will hold a one-day workshop in Dallas for English language arts teachers on teaching contemporary popular literature at the secondary level.
Questions about Teacher Institutes
Call 512.440.1991 (press 2) or email institutes@humanitiestexas.org.
Former Texas State Historian Jesús F. de la Teja leads a workshop on Spanish colonial history in the American Southwest at our June 2013 institute in Austin.