Summer Workshops & Fellowships for Social Studies Educators

Click on any blue title line for more information about that opportunity...  (Note- Most of these P-D opportunities recur yearly.  When this is the case, we will leave items posted even after this year's deadline, so that teachers will be aware of what will be available again next year.)

The Catherine B. Reynolds Civil War Washington Teacher Fellowship

Join up to 25 teachers to learn about Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and the city of Washington during the Civil War!   Come away from your week in Washington familiar with: an array of virtual tours, the oratory skills to get your students on their feet performing speeches by Lincoln and Douglass; comfortable taking students on content-driven experiential learning adventures; and excited about using classroom drama to help historic characters come alive...
Application Deadline:  March 30, 2012

Jame Madison Memorial Fellowship

The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation offers James Madison Fellowships to a select group of individuals desiring to become outstanding teachers of the American Constitution. Fellowship applicants compete only against other applicants from the states of their legal residence. Generally, one Fellowship per state is awarded each year.
Application Deadline:  March 1, 2012

Alaska Humanities Forum- Educator
Cross-Culture Immersion Program

The ECCI accepts applications from teachers in Fairbanks, Anchorage and Mat-Su school districts. Additionally, under the Take Wing Alaska Project, we are now accepting applications from educators at UAA and Alaska Job Corps.  This program offers a unique opportunity to learn, work and play at an Alaska Native summer culture camp. The camp experience gives teachers insights into the Native people, their culture, their ways of teaching, learning and living.  Participate in Alaska Native culture to better inform your teaching and support your students.
Application Deadline:  February 10, 2012

C-SPAN Teacher Fellowship Program

C-SPAN invites teachers of social studies in grades 6-12, who demonstrate successful innovative methods of integrating C-SPAN’s programming and resources into their teaching practices, to apply for an opportunity to participate in this program, a project of the C-SPAN Education Foundation. This Fellowship is open to state certified teachers in public or private schools who are members of C-SPAN Classroom, are knowledgeable about C-SPAN’s programs, and are skilled in incorporating C-SPAN’s resources into their curriculum.
Application Deadline:  February 10, 2012

Transatlantic Outreach Program Study Tours

Experience is what the Transatlantic Outreach Program is all about. Since 2001, TOP has sought to find the best and most qualified Social Studies educators and give them the opportunity to experience Modern Germany in the most dramatic way possible: in person.  From Berlin to Frankfurt, from Stuttgart to Munich, from Hamburg to Kiel, from Dresden to Schwerin, and from Weimar to Leipzig, each corner of Germany is sampled through sight, sound, touch, and taste!  These all-expense-paid study tours are two weeks in length and take place during the summer.
Application Deadline:  February 6, 2012

Bill of Rights Institute - 2012 Founders Fellowship Program

Join the Bill of Rights Institute and the Foundation for Economic Education for five days of enriching professional development in the Washington, D.C. area. This prestigious program will deepen your understanding of the Founding era, and it will focus on the intersections of civil and economic liberty. Attending teachers will participate in pedagogical sessions with a master teacher, lectures and discussion sessions with two Constitutional Scholars, as well as visit the historic homes and monuments of Founders including George Washington.
Application Deadline:  March 26, 2012

NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes

Each year the NEH’s Division of Education Programs offers teachers opportunities to study a variety of humanities topics in NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes.  Full-time teachers in American K-12 schools, whether public, charter, independent, or religiously affiliated, as well as home-schooling parents, are eligible to apply to NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes... 
Application Deadline:  March 1, 2012

The HistoryMakers’ 2012 NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers

The HistoryMakers will select 25 Summer Scholars through a competitive national application and expose them to some of the nation's leading scholars of African American politics and culture and the rich resources of The HistoryMakers' digital archive and website. This Institute was first held in 2010 and has been brought back by the National Endowment for the Humanities due to demand and because of its contribution to the humanities...
Application Deadline:  March 1, 2012

U.S. D.o.E. Teaching Ambassador Fellowship

This highly competitive program has enabled 69 teachers -- each with a record of leadership, strong communications skills, and insights into education policy based in classroom expertise -- to work with the agency on a full- or part-time basis.  All fellows spend a year learning about federal programs, sharing their expertise with federal staff members, and communicating about federal initiatives to other educators.
Application Deadline:  February 22, 2012

Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars for Teachers

K–12 history, social studies, language arts, and English teachers are invited to apply to the 2012 Gilder Lehrman Teacher Seminars. Taught by renowned historians on college campuses in the US and the UK, these one-week interdisciplinary seminars give educators the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of topics in American history and literature while gaining practical resources and strategies to take back to their classrooms.
Application Deadline:  February 15, 2012