Live Webinar: Recruiting Teachers with Cemetery Programming

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Webinar Description

This webinar will introduce history organizations to "Teaching Buried History," a free program in which staff can recruit teachers to use local cemeteries and records to teach social studies, English, and STEM.

The "Teaching Buried History" program can help organizations:

Build stronger relationships between societies and teachers
Create community among young people through schools
Initiate and nurture stronger relationships with teachers
Use cemeteries as a prism for understanding local history

Connecting the Topic

Making History at 250

This webinar connects to the Making History at 250 theme: Power of Place. Place offers a powerful lens through which we can view the past, moving beyond modern political boundaries to consider the full history of the space we now call the United States. Place can enable us to reexamine ideas about our natural and built environments and to reorient when and where we find our country’s history. This theme can help audiences consider what was happening in each of our communities during the Revolutionary Era, and how each of our “places” have changed over time.

Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (STEPS)

This webinar will help organizations enrolled in STEPS* address Audience Standard 7: Regardless of its self-identified communities, the institution strives to be a good neighbor in its geographic area. The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (STEPS) is a self-study, self-paced assessment tool designed specifically for small- to mid-sized history organizations, including volunteer-run institutions. Through a workbook, online resources, and an online community, organizations enrolled in STEPS review their policies and practices and benchmark themselves against national standards.

Details

DATE: April 27, 2022

TIME: 3:00 - 4:00 pm EASTERN (Remember to adjust for your time zone)

COST: FREE

ACCESS: You will be provided with instructions on how to access the live event upon registration.

Recording and Captioning

We will record this event. Access the Recorded Webinar in the AASLH Resource Center after the event has passed. Registrants of this event receive complimentary access to the recording in their Dashboard.

Captioning is provided for the live event.

How to Register

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Jeffrey Smith

Senior Professor of History

Lindenwood University

Jeffrey Smith is Senior Professor of History at Lindenwood University and a former historical society director. He writes and researches on cemeteries, and is author of The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in 19th-Century America.