Welcome to

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• Welcome to
• Project HISTORY

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• A Project of the Central New York Consortium of
  School Districts Led by the North Syracuse
  Central School
• District and

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• The Syracuse University
• Maxwell School of
• Citizenship
• and Public
• Affairs
• and

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• St. Marie among
• the Iroquois
• Museum
• and
• The Erie
• Canal
• Museum

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• The Onondaga
• Historical
• Association
• and
• The Everson
• Museum

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• Project HISTORY
• Director Dr. David Morton
• Principal Investigators (SU) Jim Carroll, Ph.D.
• Asst PI/Technology Spec Joe Montecalvo

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Jim Carroll, Ph.D.

• H. S. American history teacher 19671979
• Created Project LEGAL, 1976 Consortium of CNY
  Districts

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Project LEGAL Overview
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Project LEGAL

• New York State validation in 1979 relocated from
  Westhill to OCM-BOCES

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Project LEGAL

• USDE validation in 1982, 1992 1996
• Relocated from BOCES to SU in 1983

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Project LEGAL

• Has been implemented in thirty four states
• Hungary, Croatia, and the US Virgin Islands

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Project LEGAL

• Since 1983, adoption schools in over 1500 school
  districts, including all of the Project HISTORY
  districts

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Joe Montecalvo, Asst Director
In 1993, Jim hired Joe as a one-year grad
assistant Joe learns HTML and LEGAL strategies
are revised for the Internet under 7M Project
TIPS grant for Bronx.
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Project LEGAL 19962009

• Multi-Million Grants in
• gifted education (Harlem)
• technology (Bronx)
• character education (Harlem Yonkers)
• civics (Yonkers)
• all of which use LEGALs Internet applications to
  develop WebQuests and PowerPoints, leading to
• Project HISTORY

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Our Philosophy

• Before we do an overview of
• Project HISTORY
• Lets review the underlying philosophy of all
  of our projects

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Project HISTORY

• Historians
• In-service
• Standards
• Technology integration
• Outside
• Resources
• Yearly

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Historians In-service

• Seminars/workshops conducted by
• J. Carroll
• J. Montecalvo
• Maxwell American History Faculty

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Historians In-service

• Maxwell American History Faculty
• Ralph Ketcham The Founding Period
  
• Roger Sharp The Age of Jackson
• Bruce Wicek Aftermath of the Civil War
  
• Margaret Thompson Religion in U.S. History
• Andrew Cohen Industrialization Rise of Labor
  
• John Briggs Immigration in the 20th Century
• David Bennett Military History in the 20th
  Century
• depending on availability

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Standards

• Align curriculum to NYS learning standards

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Technology Integration

• Teachers create
• integrate
• WebQuests
• PowerPoints
• and

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Technology Integration

• integrate our unique Internet applications
• The Public Policy Analyst
• The American History Public Policy Analyst
• CompuLEGAL
• Ask-A-LEGAL Eagle

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Public Policy Analyst (PPA)

• Define the Problem
• Gather Evidence
• Identify Causes
• Evaluate an Existing Policy
• Develop Solutions
• Select the Best Solution

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Our CompuLEGAL Application

• Interactive case method on-line with over 60
  land- mark cases.

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Ask-A-LEGAL Eagle

• Volunteer Lawyers answer questions on-line

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Outside Resources Yearly

• St. Marie Among the Iroquois
• Onondaga Historical Assoc.
• Erie Canal Museum
• Everson Museum

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The CNY Consortium Districts

• North Syracuse (Lead)
• Liverpool Oswego Fulton
• Utica Oneida
• Clinton Cortland Solvay Syracuse
• JamesvilleDewitt FabiusPompey
• Syracuse Diocese Auburn Central
  Square
• Chittenango East Syracuse Minoa So Cayuga
• Port Byron FayettevilleManlius

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A Five Year Project

• HISTORY is an in-depth project with 2 cadres of
  30 teachers, each for 30 months
• Substantive content will be arranged
  chronologically over 230 month periods,
  starting with the colonial period and the
  founding in year 1 and ending with recent
  American history

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Annual Teacher Requirements

• Attend Seminars Museum Presentations
• Pre-Post Testing of Teachers Students
• Participants develop a WebQuest (online lesson
  plan) and a PowerPoint lesson, use them with
  students, and present results at final workshop

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60 Teacher Participants 30 in each cadre(1)
7/1/091/31/12(2) 2/1/126/30/14

• In each cadre, a district has
• 1 grade 5 teacher,
• 1 grade 7 or 8 teacher, and
• 1 grade 11 teacher

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Cadre 1 30 Teachers 3 per district (ideally)
Week of August 24, 2009 15 hours (MF) 5 Release
Days Sep, Nov, Jan, Mar, May 5 after school or
half day Sat. during school year Year 2
(20102011) repeats Year 1 schedule, with new
topics and presenters Year 3 No Aug 2012
sessions Release Days Sep, Nov, Jan 4 after
school or half day Sat. workshops (tech
assistance through June 2013)

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Cadre 2 30 Teachers 3 per district (ideally)
Release Day Jan. 2013 Week of Feb Break, 2013
15 hours (MF or WF) 5 Release Days Mar, May 5
after school or half day Sat. during school
year 5 Release Days Sep, Nov, Jan, Mar,
May 20132014) repeats Year 1, cadre 1 schedule,
with new topics and presenters Year 3 No Aug
2012 sessions Release Days Sep, Nov, Jan (tech
assistance through June 2013)

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60 Teacher Participants 30 in each cadre(1)
7/1/091/31/12(2) 2/1/126/30/14

• In each cadre, a district has
• 1 grade 5 teacher,
• 1 grade 7 or 8 teacher, and
• 1 grade 11 teacher

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In Closing
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• Keep Your Deck Chairs Facing Forward!!!

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February Planning

• Recruit teachers
• Submit applications to Jim Carroll
• When Funding Decision is Made, Jim Carroll will
  notify district reps and teachers.
• Thanks for Attending today!!

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Contact Us to Apply
Jim Carroll 443-4720 Jcarroll_at_syr.edu Joe
Montecalvo 443-5627 Jmonteca_at_syr.edu