In the spring of 2023, Humanities Texas will hold a series of 90-minute webinars for Texas and U.S. history teachers on Reconstruction, offering new assessments of the era and providing a collection of curriculum materials geared toward bringing innovative perspectives into the classroom
The series will take place via Zoom from 5–6:30 p.m. CT on the following Mondays: January 16, 23, and 30 and February 6. Teachers who register will receive information for each webinar in the series. Attendance for every weekly session is encouraged but not required.
Team-taught by a historian and two master teachers (Andrew Torget, the University of North Texas; Jay Ferguson, Round Rock ISD; Chassidy Olainu-Alade, Fort Bend ISD; and Michelle Phillips, College Station ISD), the sessions will focus on exploring how Reconstruction remade the ways that Texans thought about freedom and citizenship and how state and national governments fought over the fate of both newly freed African Americans and their defeated former masters. Content will be aligned with the TEKS.
Like all Humanities Texas teacher programs, the webinar series will be content-based and teacher-centered, with an emphasis on teaching with primary sources and developing effective pedagogical strategies. Teachers attending this webinar series will walk away with an expanded understanding of Texas during the Reconstruction period and curated primary source lessons that are classroom-ready.
The institute is open to secondary-level social studies teachers in Texas schools.
The online program is free to teachers and their schools. Participants will receive CPE credit and a wealth of curricular materials for each session in the series. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to attend every weekly session. CPE hours will be based on Zoom attendance and adjusted if a participant misses any portion of the program. In order to attend the webinars and receive CPE credit, you must be a registered participant.
Complete the online application for the "Reconstruction and the Remaking of Texas" online series. By submitting an application, you are signing up to receive information about and access to each weekly session of this series. Please apply as soon as possible, as registration will occur on a rolling basis.
The online series is made possible with major funding from the State of Texas with ongoing support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Call 512.440.1991 or email institutes@humanitiestexas.org.Questions about Teacher Institutes