Locations, Schedule for 2024-25 Institute for Louisiana Culture and History Regional Workshops
During the 2024-2025 school year the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) will host four Institute for Louisiana Culture and History (ILCH) regional workshops for social studies K–12 educators throughout the state. This year’s regional workshops will focus on Louisiana’s Reconstruction-era history in alignment with the Louisiana Department of Education’s (LDOE) latest 7th grade social studies standards.
These one-day regional workshops will provide Louisiana public school social studies educators the opportunity to build their content knowledge by engaging with historians and participating in social studies working sessions exploring how to use expanded standards-aligned content found on LEH’s 64 Parishes online encyclopedia, 64parishes.org, in the classroom.
The institute will provide a $150 stipend to all regional workshop participants on completion of the one-day workshop. Applications for each workshop will open one month before the workshop date and will be evaluated on a rolling basis. Social studies educators and specialists employed by public schools in Louisiana, with a preference for those working with 7th grade social studies content, are encouraged to apply.
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This year’s regional workshops will take place:
- Saturday, November 9, 2024: McNeese State University in Lake Charles (open to educators from southwest Louisiana)
- Saturday, December 7, 2024: West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen (open to educators from southeast Louisiana)
- Saturday, January 11, 2025: Louisiana State University-Shreveport (open to educators from northwest Louisiana)
- Saturday, February 1, 2025: Louisiana State University-Alexandria (open to educators from central Louisiana)
About 64 Parishes Encyclopedia and K-12 Educational Resources
Encompassing an award-winning quarterly print magazine and website, encyclopedia, and K–12 resources, LEH’s 64 Parishes explores Louisiana history and culture. 64 Parishes encyclopedia hosts over 1,200 entries about Louisiana accompanied by thousands of archival images, documents, and audio files. The encyclopedia is the LEH’s most-used resource, reaching hundreds of classrooms across Louisiana each year.
ILCH expanded, adapted, and grade-leveling encyclopedia entries for the classroom. As part of the effort to better serve students and teachers, ILCH staff has also rolled out a search function that allows teachers to search content by the new Louisiana social studies standards numbers.
The LDOE, one of LEH’s partners on the 64 Parishes encyclopedia expansion, introduced new social studies standards in the 2023–24 school year. The new course frameworks expand the study of Louisiana history and culture in the state’s public schools from third and eighth grade to nearly every grade. Together, LEH and LDOE mapped these new social studies standards to the content on 64parishes.org, creating resources for teachers and students, including grade-level appropriate adaptations of key texts.
The ILCH workshops and 64 Parishes encyclopedia expansion are made possible by the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation, the State of Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Please contact ILCH Program Manager Clare Shelburne at [email protected] with any questions.
