2023 Grants for Professional Development

IHE has awarded our 2023 grants for professional development in cultural heritage education to these five organizations. We are very happy to be able to support these outstanding programs.

* Historic Denver, Inc. (HDI), for a five-day institute for teachers focused on using primary sources and place-based learning to teach and celebrate the cultural heritage of Denver, Colorado, and the West. HDI's flagship property, the Molly Brown House Museum, will be featured in the institute. (If the phrase “Unsinkable Molly Brown” rings a bell, yes, it’s that Molly Brown – a Titanic disaster survivor).

* The Kansas Anthropological Association, which will hold an educator workshop titled "Archaeology of Shelter and Migration in Western Kansas," based on Project Archaeology materials. The event will take place in Scott County, Kansas, in the western, rural part of the state, featuring two important cultural sites on the state park property where the workshop will be held.

* Minnesota Project Archaeology for a two-day “Archaeology of the Little House on the Prairie” July event, based on "Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter" and "Investigating the Tinsley Historic Farmhouse." The workshop will connect the materials with the story of the Little House on the Prairie through a visit to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, MN.

* The Alliance for Heritage Conservation (AHC, North Carolina), which will hold its second annual, four-day Summer Teacher Institute in August in cooperation with the Museum of the Southeast American Indian in Pembroke, North Carolina. These institutes focus on Native American experiences in the Carolinas, 1491-1830. IHE has provided partial support for both the 2022 and 2023 events.

* The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Research Laboratories of Archaeology (RLA), staff of which are working with the Catawba Indian Nation Cultural Center to hold a one-day workshop for educators to promote new materials about and cultural awareness of the Catawba people’s past and present. RLA’s 20 years of archaeological research on the area’s historical town and village sites have been a crucial component of this work.

Thanks to these educators for their impressive contributions to cultural heritage education!