Imagine my surprise when I received this in my emailbox, on Monday:
I hope you and your family are doing well. It's sadly been a while since we have worked together, so I am excited to reach out to inquire if you would be interested in serving as the elementary Master Teacher for a series of professional development events that are part of a program called Project Trails.
For the 2024-2025 school year, Project Trails will service educators in Lexington, Kentucky, with three TLTH workshops, one this fall and two in the spring, and a week-long, in-person summer institute in Boston, MA. These programs will focus on the general topic of "Beginnings, Colonization, Settlement, Revolution, and a New Nation." These sessions and institute are part of a more extensive five-year program, so if you enjoy working with this cohort of teachers, we would love to have you stay on for subsequent cycles. Each cycle would focus on a different historical topic.
Most immediately, I wanted to gauge your availability to lead an in-person pedagogy workshop on the Pilgrims, the Mayflower Compact, and the Thanksgiving lesson plan...
Please let me know if you are interested and available to work on this project or have any questions. Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you soon!
These projects often come from different people at the Gilder Lehrman Institute (GLI), but from time to time, the contact person is the same. Suffice it to say, maybe I'm doing something right to be asked to continue serving the institute in these ways. To be able to present in person, in both Kentucky and Massachusetts, is quite an honor. In fact, just thinking about doing history training on location in such a place as Boston is pretty surreal. I'm glad I have the time available to take advantage of these opportunities.
The dates haven't all been set for these events so I'm just waiting to sign the contract that will arrive shortly. Perhaps future years will bring different geographical destinations, as well. We shall see.
The dates haven't all been set for these events so I'm just waiting to sign the contract that will arrive shortly. Perhaps future years will bring different geographical destinations, as well. We shall see.
