Pursuing Justice: The Founding Documents In American History
Pursuing Justice, a three-year federal grant of the Teaching American History program to the Brookline Public Schools, offers teachers of American history professional and curriculum development opportunities that include in year seminars and a summer institute in late June. The goals of Pursuing Justice are for teachers to:
- Deepen their understanding of American history through examining the continuing significance of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence;
- Learn the analytical tools, research skills, and methodologies to teach American history as a separate academic subject; and
- Develop thoughtful, intellectually strong, and accessible curricula for their students.
Pursuing Justice will examine 4 important periods in our nation’s past to understand those periods not only in light of the latest scholarship but also to reveal that the pursuit of justice is a constant thread running throughout the American experience. The historical topics are:
- The Creation of the Founding Documents: Controversies and Compromises
- The Claims for Citizenship in the 19 th century
- Individual Liberty v. Social Justice in the Progressive period
- Civil Rights after World War II
In each topic area Pursuing Justice will examine how the Constitution and the Declaration played fundamental roles in both determining the course of events in each period and in shaping the nation’s political, economic and cultural future. Moreover, Pursuing Justice will study how the claims for justice in each period were firmly rooted in the vision of America as a special place--a nation founded and expressly created on the revolutionary principles expressed in the Declaration and the Constitution.
The seminars and summer program are led by university faculty who are deeply committed to working with public school teachers.
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The seminars are offered at no cost to the teacher or their school district. Each seminar will take place from 9-3, and, if a teacher chooses to take more than one seminar, Professional Development Points will be awarded. |
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NOTE: Applications for the Summer Institute are now closed. The date for notification of acceptance is now Tuesday, March 11. Those who are chosen to be participants will need to come to a Pursuing Justice Technology workshop on one of three days: Tuesday, March 18 (evening), Wednesday, March 19 (after school) OR Saturday, March 22 (morning).
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Pursuing Justice is proud to announce our summer institute, The Founding Documents in American History , in partnership with Teachers as Scholars
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Pursuing Justice Co-Sponsors a spring institute, "Educating for Justice," with Boston University.
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