New Hampshire Heritage Project Teacher Institute:
June 29 - July 4, 2003

_____"Memory, Identity, Community" is a four and 1/2-day, residential teacher institute designed to immerse middle school and high school teachers in both the theory and the practice of using their community as a basis for studying history, literature, and the environment. The institute will combine speakers who are scholars in various aspects of place-based education with presenters who have successfully implemented interdisciplinary community-based projects in their classrooms. During this intensive study, teachers will undertake collaborative community-based projects which will enable them to immediately put into practice the theories and skills they are studying. Teachers may register for three graduate credits for the workshop and will receive stipends and copies of all the required texts. More information will be available in January, 2003. The institute will be housed on the campus of Plymouth State College from Sunday, June 29 through Thursday, July 3.

Schedule:

Sunday, June 29:
2 p.m - 4 p.m.: Registration & orientation at PSC dormitory
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Welcome/introductions and discussion of texts
6 p.m. - 7 p.m.: Dinner
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Introductory Presentation: Howard Mansfield: In the Memory House. This presentation will address the question: What do we choose to document and preserve and why?

Monday, June 30
8:00 a.m. - Breakfast & discussion
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Jere Daniell: "Village and Town in New England." Professor Daniell will discuss the development of villages and towns in New England and the development of Plymouth, NH specifically. This will provide an opportunity for participants to gain information significant to the projects they will carry out in the Plymouth area as well as a general understanding of the variety of ways towns have developed in New England and New Hampshire.
- Break -
10:45 a.m. - noon: Visit college archives and orientation to library and resources - Todd Trevorrow, PSC Librarian, Virginia Fisher, College Archivist. Following the morning lecture, this session will orient participants to the resources available to them to carry out their projects.
- Lunch -
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Primary sources workshop and project topic choices - Kay Morgan, Project Director & Marcia Schmidt Blaine, Project Humanist. Participants will identify project topics and collaborative groups and will learn core techniques in interpreting primary source documents including letters, documents and visual art (photos, maps, paintings).
- Break -
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Project work: Participants meet in collaborative teams to design projects and begin to develop the historic context of their project.
- Dinner -
7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.: Dona Brown: Inventing New England. This presentation will address the question "Who are we and how did our identity develop? This presentation will move the discussion outward from towns and villages to the surrounding environment and the interaction between humans and the environment in the historic context of the 19th century.

Tuesday, July 1:
8:00 a.m. - Breakfast and discussion
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Marcia Schmidt Blaine: " A Lakeside Community: Squam Lake Oral Histories." This presentation will address the question "How do memory and identity intersect with community? Participants will consider the uses of oral history and the role of memory in oral history. How reliable is oral history and how do we adequately place oral history accounts into the context of history? Can we reconstruct an event or a time period or a community from oral histories?
- Break -
10:45 a.m. - noon: Oral history workshop - Marcia Schmidt Blaine, Project Humanist and Kay Morgan, Project Director. Participants will practice techniques in gathering oral history through interviewing each other and examining a transcribed interview.
- Lunch -
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Finish oral history workshop and plan interviews.
- Break -
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Participants will conduct interviews in the community related to their project topic. Interviewees will have been identified by the Project Director and Project Humanist.
- Dinner -
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Debrief the interview process; interview transcription and project work.

Wednesday, July 2:
8:00 a.m. - Breakfast and discussion
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Kent Ryden - "Landscape With Figures: Nature and Culture in New England." This presentation will address the question of the relationship of humans and the environment. How have we redesigned the landscape over time and how can we see the landscape as part of the culture of a community?
- Break -
10:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Emma Rous, "Reading and Writing the Landscape." This
presentation will begin indoors and continue with a bag lunch and field experience. Teachers will learn ways to help students look more closely at their surroundings and ways to develop the historic and cultural context of a piece of land.
- Break -
2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Choice of Using Digital Photography, Web Design, or Power Point - PSC Technology center - Jeanne Poterucha, Technology specialist
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Dinner
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Project Work

Thursday, July 3
8:00 a.m. - Breakfast and discussion
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Project work and consultation with Marcia Schmidt Blaine, Kay Morgan, or the PSC Tech center
- Break -
10:45 p.m. - noon - Project work
- Lunch -
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Groups present projects; Institute evaluation.