-= Welcome to the New Hampshire Heritage Project =-

The New Hampshire Heritage Project (NHHP) began as an initiative funded by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation through their Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical Year Program. The original project was designed to develop a consortium of teachers in the North Country who used their local environment, culture and heritage to design curriculum. Kay Morgan, NHHP Director and Christa McAuliffe fellow, conducted workshops with teachers throughout the region, worked in classrooms with students, and held a Heritage Project Fair Day which brought teachers and students together to share their work. At the conclusion of the McAuliffe sabbatical, the NHHP sponsored a teacher institute which invited 20 teachers from throughout the state to begin heritage project work and expand the consortium statewide.
The original group of teachers involved in heritage education expanded in the 2003-2004 school year through additional workshops and through a partnership with the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture to hold a second teacher institute in the summer of 2004. This institute brought teams of teachers together from the Seacoast region, the North Country and the Monadnock region for instruction and curriculum development in place-based education. Financial support for the NH Heritage Project continued in the 2003-2004 school year through the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the NH Council for the Humanities, the NH State Council on the Arts and the Monadnock Institute.

Schools & Projects 2003-04:
Canaan (Indian River School)
Durham (Oyster River High School)
Franklin (Franklin High School)
Henniker (New England College)
Jaffrey (Jaffrey-Rindge Middle School)
Londonderry (Pinkerton Academy)
Madison (Madison Elementary School)
Winchester (Thayer Middle School)
Woodsville (Woodsville High School)