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This project is a collaboration between Region 4 Education Service Center, the University of Houston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Region 4 Education Service Center
University of Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston
Project Personnel: Region 4 ESC Social Studies Educational
Specialist, Debra Williams, is charged with promoting, developing,
and delivering professional development, and providing technical
assistance
to American history educators. She is the 2000-2001 president of the
Houston Council for the Social Studies, serves on the Curriculum
Advisory
Committee of the Texas Council for the Social Studies, is a 1997 fellow
of the Colonial Williamsburg Summer Teacher Institute in Early
American
History, has served as a Master Teacher and lead teacher in Rice University's
teacher education program, was selected 1998 Middle School Star
Educator
for Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas, and has over twenty years
experience as an American history teacher. Region 4 ESC Social Studies Modifications
Educational Specialist, Helen Griffin, is charged with promoting,
developing, and delivering professional development, and providing
technical
assistance to American history educators, for both general and special
education. Cameron White is currently Associate Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Houston. He has 13 years of history teaching experience and 10 years of experience in training American History teachers. Dr. White has published extensively in history education, social studies education, and integrating technology in history teaching. He has received many grants for enhancing history education, professional development, and integrating technology in education. He has recently won the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award. Email: cswhite@uh.edu Steven Mintz, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History at
the University of Houston, is an authority on the history of the family,
American reform movements, and the scholarly study and uses of media
and new technologies. He has published several books and is a past recipient
of the University of Houston's Enron Teaching Excellence Award. He is
also the Vice President for Teaching for H-Net: Humanities and Social
Studies Online and a member of the board of advisors of the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History and the board of directors of the Council
on Contemporary Families. He was the P.I. for an NEH Challenge Grant
that established two endowed chairs and graduate fellowships in African
and African American Studies at the University of Houston; a director
of the Annenberg/CPB Project that produced a CD-ROM on "Migration
in Modern World History" and the director of the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History's web site Sara McNeil, Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
in the University of Houston's College of Education, is a specialist
in the visual representation of information and the design and development
of multimedia educational materials. She is the recipient of four major
teaching awards at the University of Houston including the Enron Teaching
Excellence Award and P.I. For a US Department of Education grant to
prepare tomorrow's teachers to use technology. Her published scholarship
focuses on the design and evaluation of online instructional materials.
She is the instructional designer of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History's web site Victoria Burke is presently Assistant Director of Education at
the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She specializes in integrating art
in teaching and learning and has received several grants to enhance
professional development for teachers. |
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