Attendance at these sessions is limited to participating teachers and project staff.  For more information contact Anne Raymond (860) 524-4018 araymond@crec.org.

Summer Institute

July 18-22    University of Connecticut     8:30 – 3:00     Monday – Friday     Draft lesson plans

Follow Up Sessions

Schedule to be determined.

Field Trips

February 2 Virtual Field Trip     8:30 – 3:00      Rensselaer @ Hartford

March 2 Connecticut Historical Society     8:30 – 3:00

April 13 The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition     8:30 – 3:00     Yale University

April 30 Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum     9:30 – 4:30*     Hyde Park, New York  * not including travel time

Dine and Discuss

February 9 Professor Joan Hedrick, Trinity College - “Harriet Beecher Stowe:  A Life”     4:00 – 8:00       CREC Central, Hartford

March 9 Jeffrey Ogbar, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut - “Black Power:  Radical Politics and African American Identity”     4:00 – 8:00       Metropolitan Learning Center, Bloomfield

April 6  David Garrow, Professor, Emory University, Atlanta “Bearing the Cross:  Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference”     4:00 – 8:00       CREC Central, Hartford

May 25  Working with Local Historical Organizations     4:00 – 8:00       Cheney Hall, Manchester