Our seminar-style classes encourage you to engage directly with primary source documents, rather than simply listening to lectures. Our faculty treat you as colleagues, respecting your work as teachers, and helping you grow as scholars. Our goal is to bring social studies teachers into a conversation about the American experiment in self-government. Our hope is that America’s students will be brought into this conversation as well.
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Speaking of Professor Scott Yenor, Liz Schley said: “He guided us to do our own thinking. He’d ask us, ‘Why do you think what you’ve just said—can you point to a particular section of the document, or to other readings you’ve done?’” As teachers went back to the text to look for evidence, and as they listened to others who pointed to different evidence, they often revised their thinking.
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One-Day Seminar: The Vietnam War hosted by the Wisconsin Council of the Social Studies (Madison, WI)
This one-day seminar on the Vietnam War will be held at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Registration opens at 8:30 am Access program materials here REGISTER... Read more »
One-Day Seminar: The Constitution and Limited Government (hosted by Boerne ISD, San Antonio area)
Virtually any written framework for government can serve as a limit on that government’s powers and reach, by virtue of listing and describing its powers.... Read more »
One Day Seminar: The Constitutional Convention hosted by Pepperdine West LA Campus (Los Angeles, CA)
TAH.org and Pepperdine University are partnering to bring another One Day Seminar to California teachers, this time about the Constitutional Convention - the ideas, politics,... Read more »