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Freedom Moves West

Freedom Moves West: The Pacific Northwest in American History is an educational partnership involving Educational Service District 101 (ESD 101), Central Valley School District (CVSD), Eastern Washington University’s Living History Institute for Teaching American History (EWU), Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Pacific Alaska Region, Washington State Digital Archives, and a host of local teachers and students. Among the strengths of the project:
• History content is the focus, and seminars will integrate local, regional, and national history.
• History of cooperation among the project partners.
• Broad impact: The project will involve 60 teachers in year-long graduate seminars, 100-200 in in-service workshops, and 300 pre-service teachers in summer courses and workshops.
• Demonstrated need: This project is in response to new state history requirements.
• Teachers will have hands-on lessons with primary and archival documents and pedagogy.
• Many of the sessions will take place in archives, at the MAC or on field trips.
• Objective evaluation plan administered by experienced and independent evaluators.
• Evaluation of student as well as teacher progress in learning American history.
• Follow-up visits and support to teacher classrooms to ensure that the new lessons are used.
• Distribution plan will ensure wide use of the new teaching materials.
The project goals are: (1) Eastern Washington teachers will have the skills and knowledge to effectively teach American history; and (2) Eastern Washington educational and historical organizations will have increased capacity for continued, sustainable improvement in history instruction, and (3) students in the classrooms of participating teachers will exhibit an increased understanding and enthusiasm for American history.

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Indian Image Teaching the History of the Northwest and the Nation is an educational partnership involving Educational Service District 101 (ESD 101), Eastern Washington University’s Living History Institute for Teaching American History (EWU), Central Valley School District (CVSD), the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (MAC), the Washington State Archives, the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute and a host of local teachers and students.
Project quality: The project has developed three measurable objectives (with accompanying performance measures) tied to teacher quality, regional capacity and student performance. Grant services will be offered on two tiers. The first will provide intense study for 60 teachers (grades 3-12; 20 per year) enrolled in a year-long, 10-credit graduate seminar studying a specific era in Northwest history and its relationship to national events. This initiative will directly benefit an estimated 1,800 students. The second tier of activity, open to all teachers in the ESD 101 service area, will include American history in-service courses and a guest lecture series that will serve an estimated 250-300 teachers per event. Sustainability will be provided through the distribution of materials to 300 teachers after the project is completed and through EWU pre-service courses, emphasizing history, for current educator majors preparing for teaching careers. The pre-service course is expected to enroll 100 students per year.
Significance: Project significance will include standards-based improvements in teaching and learning; the building of local capacity; the connection of local, regional and national history; the connection of diverse partners; the creation of permanent products; and the use of rigorous evaluation methods. Project strengths will include alignment to state and national history standards, participant support by a master teacher team and development of hands-on lessons including primary documents.
Evaluation: A third-party evaluation will be conducted, using rigorous, objective, scientifically based methods in a quasi-experimental design. The evaluation will be aligned to grant objectives and performance measures related to student performance, increased capacity and teacher knowledge.