Teachinghistory.org

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Title

Teachinghistory.org

Project Item Type Metadata

Title

Teachinghistory.org (originally titled National History Education Clearinghouse)

Description

Teachinghistory.org, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, was designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.

Start Date

10/01/2007

End Date

9/30/2012

Proposal Co-Authors

Roy Rosenzweig
Kelly Schrum
Sharon Leon
Daisy Martin
Sam Wineburg

Director(s)

Kelly Schrum

Web Designer(s)

Chris Raymond

Programmers

James McCartney

Staff Members

John Buescher
Alan Gevinson
Lara Harmon
Alaina Harmon
Emily Perdue
Carl Aldrich
Kristin Conlin
Debra Kathman
Saúl I. Maldonado
Mark Smith
Chris Preperato
Ammon Shepherd
Rwany Sibaja
Chris Raymond

Outreach

Jennifer Rosenfeld
Teresa DeFlitch

Content Experts

James A. Banks
James Banner
Beth Boland
Clayborne Carson
Alison Clark
James Grossman
Joy Hakim
Karen Haltunnen
James Horton
David M. Kennedy
Dennis Lubeck
Andrea Quihuis
Diane Ravitch
Kyle Smith
Peter Stearns
Tom Thurston
Myra Zarnowski
Alan Gevinson

Affiliates

American Historical Association
Stanford History Education Group

Deliverables

Submit draft plan for the website, including design, features, timetable, plan for usability testing, and all proposed content with proposed review procedures. This includes the process for selecting TAH best practices and exemplary content.
Submit revised website plan (begin building prototype, and setting up testing)
Monthly reporting call with COR
Convene Technical Working Group (TWG).
Provide documentation of usability testing on the website prototype, with recommended changes — begin revisions
Provide dissemination plan that includes partner associations and list of conference appearances
Launch website, and continue to populate with updated content through end of contract
Publish print newsletter bi-annually.
Provide annual "Report on History Education."

Project URL

teachinghistory.org

Funder

U.S. Department of Education

Partners

American Historical Association
Stanford History Education Group

Technology Used

Drupal
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP

Audiences

K-12 U.S. history teachers

Awards

Award of Merit from American Association for State and Local History

Files

teachinghistory.png
Mockup for spotlight pages

Collection

Citation

“Teachinghistory.org,” RRCHNM20, accessed March 29, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/40.

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Item Relations

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This Item Partner Item: American Historical Association
This Item Partner Item: Stanford History Education Group
This Item Staff Item: Roy Rosenzweig
This Item Staff Item: Kelly Schrum
This Item Staff Item: Sharon Leon
This Item Staff Item: Chris Raymond
This Item Staff Item: James McCartney
This Item Staff Item: John Buescher
This Item Staff Item: Alan Gevinson
This Item Staff Item: Lara Harmon-Sutor
This Item Staff Item: Alaina Harmon
This Item Staff Item: Emily Perdue
This Item Staff Item: Kristin Conlin
This Item Staff Item: Deborah Kathman
This Item Staff Item: Chris Peperato
This Item Staff Item: Ammon Shepherd
This Item Staff Item: Jennifer Rosenfeld
This Item Staff Item: Teresa DeFlitch