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 Historians in the Schools (HITS)
3/1/2006 12:30 PM

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Click on the HITS logo to view a movie of the kick off event.
Saint Paul Public Schools is pleased to present Historians in the Schools (HITS). This compelling new program for teachers enhances the quality of American history instruction and content. Designed to improve student achievement, HITS also expands and strengthens partnerships with academic historians and museum professionals to create a continuum of teaching, learning and practice.

Through HITS, Saint Paul Public School educators have the opportunity to collaborate with historians from the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society. Teachers will enrich their American history content knowledge and ability to deliver rigorous academic instruction by attending intensive summer institutes, school-year seminars and workshops, and ongoing teacher study groups. Secondary social studies teachers are welcome to participate in any or all components of the three-year program.

By combining a Disciplinary Literacy framework with content knowledge provided by professional historians, HITS will help teachers and students master both deep historical content and historical habits of thinking. HITS participants will engage in rigorous, high-quality training that includes content-area expertise, historical resources and materials, history-specific pedagogy and instructional strategies. Students will demonstrate the work of a historian by working with primary resources and engaging in National History Day.

HITS is made possible by a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Education to Saint Paul Public Schools. Project partners include:
University of Minnesota
Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota Department of Education

To learn more about HITS, please contact: Lana Mahoney,
social studies coach, lana.mahoney@spps.org



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Watch a video from the HITS kick off event