Professional Education

Join Gilder Lehrman for American history PD this summer! We’re thrilled to announce three K-12 professional development opportunities, including our first-ever Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College. Learn more and select the program that’s right for you. Go here to learn more. Read More ⟶

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation is proud to offer the Monticello Teacher Institute (MTI), an immersive professional development program that provides social studies teachers the opportunity to research and study at Monticello and the Jefferson Library in Charlottesville, Virginia. Participating teachers engage in: A collaborative environment, facilitated by group excursions, discussions with leading Jefferson scholars, and Read More ⟶

C-SPAN’s Teacher Fellowship program is designed for middle and high school educators who are familiar with C-SPAN’s programs and can demonstrate innovative methods of incorporating these programs into the classroom. This year C-SPAN will select up to five fellows to collaborate with the Education Relations team to develop new teaching materials. Each Fellow will work Read More ⟶

The ABA is accepting applications for the its annual summer institute for teachers, led in partnership with the Federal Judicial Center (FJC). The ABA-FJC Federal Trials and Great Debates Summer Institute deepens participants’ knowledge of the federal judiciary and of the role the federal courts have played in key public controversies that have defined our Read More ⟶

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers tuition-free opportunities for K-12 educators and higher education faculty to study a variety of humanities topics. Stipends of $1300-$3450 for residential programs and $650-$1725 for virtual programs help cover expenses for these one- to four-week programs. Applications for all programs close on March 1, 2022. Professional development programs Read More ⟶

The application period for Street Law’s 2022 Supreme Court Summer Institute is now open! Co-sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society, the institute brings a select group of high school social studies teachers to Washington, DC, for an immersive six days of educational activities related to teaching about the U.S. Supreme Court. Apply here. If Read More ⟶

The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation offers $24,000 James Madison Graduate Fellowships to individuals desiring to become outstanding teachers of the American Constitution at the secondary school level. Fellowship applicants compete only against other applicants from the states of their legal residence. As funding permits, the Foundation plans to offer one fellowship per state per Read More ⟶

Kicking off Constitution Day, the Lou Frey Institute will host a webinar at 4 p.m. Eastern on September 9 on the Charters of Freedom featuring Dr. Charles Flanagan, outreach supervisor at the National Archives’ Center for Legislative Archives. Teachers will learn how to engage students with learning activities using the Declaration of Independence and the Read More ⟶

The ABA Division for Public Education will host two virtual summer institutes! Our speakers series with the Sacramento Judicial Learning Center will kick off on July 15 with a session with Adam Liptak of the New York Times on the recent SCOTUS B.L. student speech case, and the Grady Teachers Institute will launch on July Read More ⟶