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LEUSD Lands American History teaching grant

     The Lake Elsinore Unified School District (LEUSD) has been tapped to receive nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education through a grant program aimed at improving and enhancing the teaching of American history in the nation’s schools, the district was recently notified. 
     LEUSD was one of 124 school districts across the country to receive a share of the $115.3 million available through the Teaching American History grant program. The funding will allow the district to work with professional historians and other experts to provide intensive training to 50 American history teachers in grades 5, 8 and 11. 
     To qualify, the district was required to develop a proposal for a three-year project that included partnerships with institutions that specialize in studies of American history. Among LEUSD’s partners are the UC Irvine History Project, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, the Huntington Library, the UC Riverside History Department and the Richard Nixon Library. 
     “This project is our nation’s major initiative to improve history instruction,” says Dr. Nancy Andrzejczak, the project’s coordinator. “Our teachers will work with major historians, museums and universities. Our goal is to bring a renewed energy, enthusiasm and creative practice into the history classroom to, in turn, engage students in learning the history of our nation.  
     For more information on the Teaching American History grant program, visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at www.ed.gov.
      

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