Register now for Teaching Local History: Diverse Stories at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum! A week-long teacher’s institute for K-12 educators that explores the diversity of local history in the Connecticut River Valley.
July 7-11, 2025
Register at www.pphmuseum.org/2025-teaching-local-history-institute
How do you incorporate local history into your classroom?
Teaching Local History: Diverse Stories at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum invites K-12 teachers to explore local history resources and develop classroom materials from local primary sources. This week-long program offers teachers opportunities to:
-Access the diverse stories held in the Museum's object collection in Hadley, MA, the PPH family papers at SCUA, the collections of local historical societies, and local museums.
-Hear from experts in history, archives, and teaching that can support your professional development.
-Explore new scholarship on local histories of enslavement, land stewardship, gender, the Revolutionary War Era, and more.
-Be part of a learning cohort and develop classroom materials for your future use
-Connect with PPH’s broad network of educators and historians.
-Apply for implementation grants to continue developing your classroom materials after the Institute.
Lunch will be provided each day. PDP are available!
Registration is free for qualified applicants thanks to a generous grant from MassHumanities.
The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum
130 River Dr, Hadley, MA 01035
413 586-7870 - pphmuseum.org
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