Founded in 1729, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is bursting at the seams with history. K-12 teachers can use Lancaster as a lens to examine issues throughout Pennsylvania, U.S., and world history. This session is designed to increase a teacher's content knowledge of Lancaster history as well as providing teachers with strategies to integrate Lancaster's history and primary sources into their existing curriculum to help students develop a sense of place.

This session will start at IU13 and then transfer downtown at Penn Square as participants will go on a walking tour of the city for the morning. After lunch on your own at Central Market, participants will return to IU13 to participate in a debrief of their learning and then discuss ways to integrate local history into their existing curriculum. The walking tours will take place in rain or shine. Please dress accordingly.

Lunch on your own.

Thomas Jefferson served as a lightning rod for controversy. While his supporters organized festivals in his honor, marched in parades and praised him in songs, Federalists portrayed him as a dilettante and demagogue, double-faced and dangerously radical. This seminar investigates the factors that made Jefferson such a divisive figure. How did his own actions combine with events beyond his control to shape the development of his two sided image?

Sponsored by Teaching American History, this program will be led by Dr. Ron McDonald from West Point Military Academy.

Please Note:The program will be run as a Socratic discussion, utilizing primary source documents as the only readings, and with the Discussion Leader facilitating the conversation, instead of lecturing or presenting. Registrants, therefore, are highly encouraged to read all the documents in advance and come ready with questions. Documents will be sent to each participant closer to the date of the seminar.

Lunch will be provided.

Additional Info: All attendees will receive a Letter of Attendance at the end of the seminar.

This interactive workshop, led by Dr. Katie Caprino from Elizabethtown College, aims to help prepare practicing teachers to define inquiry-based literacy instruction and then plan an inquiry-based literacy unit of their own! Participants will walk away with an understanding of effective essential questions that really matter in the classroom - but more importantly in the real world - and then how to frame units around these questions. Several sample inquiry units will be shared. Participants will have the opportunity to create multimodal inquiry units with fellow participants before having guided workshop time to design an inquiry-based literacy unit of their own! There will be plenty of time for questions, deep thinking, collaboration, and fun! Workshop is open to middle and high school English and social studies educators.

*Lunch is on your own.*

Biography: Katie Caprino is the Assistant Professor of PK-12 New Literacies and the Director of the Teaching & Learning Design Studio at Elizabethtown College. A trained reading specialist, her teaching and research interests are in the area of literacy; technology integration in the literacy classroom; and children's, middle grades, and young adult literature.

The decades that preceded Abraham Lincoln's presidential election and the onset of secession and civil war saw an America increasingly divided over the future of slavery in the United States. This seminar will explore the events and turmoil that ultimately led to the greatest conflict this nation endured. The readings that follow present a diversity of opinions regarding that division, and how best to resolve what Harry V. Jaffa called "the crisis of the house divided.”

Sponsored by Teaching American History, this program will be led by Dr. Jason Stevens from Ashland University.

Please Note:The program will be run as a Socratic discussion, utilizing primary source documents as the only readings, and with the Discussion Leader facilitating the conversation, instead of lecturing or presenting. Registrants, therefore, are highly encouraged to read all the documents in advance and come ready with questions. Documents will be sent to each participant closer to the date of the seminar.

Lunch will be provided.

Cost: Free

Additional info: All attendees will receive a Letter of Attendance at the end of the seminar.

**Snow Make-up - April 11, 2024