Summer Intensive Teacher Workshop Announced, Applications Open Now
This summer the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) will host the third-annual Institute for Louisiana Culture and History (ILCH) intensive workshop, a national award-winning program for Louisiana social studies K-12 educators.
June 23–25, 2025, in New Orleans, this ILCH workshop will focus on Louisiana’s Civil Rights Era history in alignment with the Louisiana Department of Education’s (LDOE) latest 8th grade social studies standards.
The summer intensive workshop will provide Louisiana public school social studies educators with the opportunity to build their content knowledge by engaging with nationally known scholars, taking field trips promoting experiential learning, and participating in social studies working sessions exploring how to use expanded, standards-aligned content found on 64parishes.org in the classroom.
Applications close April 15.
Read more about the 2025 workshop below or apply now.
COMPENSATION AND ACCOMODATIONS
The institute will provide a $250 stipend to all participants on completion of the three-day workshop and paid, secure parking. The institute will also provide private hotel accommodation and mileage reimbursement for participants traveling more than sixty miles from New Orleans.
ABOUT THE 2025 WORKSHOP
The workshop will feature lectures on Louisiana in the Civil Rights Movement in alignment with the LDOE’s latest 8th grade social studies standards. Scholars Nikki Brown, PhD, Associate Professor of History and African American & Africana Studies, at the University of Kentucky, and Ashley Farmer, PhD, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies & History at the University of Texas, will present to participants.
Field trips include a tour of sites significant to the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans and archival visits to examine Civil Rights Era documents and artifacts.
Louisiana social studies curriculum specialist Lindsay Bardes will lead hands-on teaching sessions.
ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION
Social studies educators, teacher coaches, and curriculum specialists employed by public schools in Louisiana, with a preference for those working with 8th grade social studies content, can apply to participate in the summer intensive workshop below.
Application time is approximately 15 minutes. Applications close April 15, and applicants will be notified via email of acceptance, waitlist, or rejection, by 5 p.m. on April 25.
Questions about the Institute for Louisiana Culture and History? Email Program Manager Clare Shelburne at [email protected].
ABOUT 64 PARISHES
Encompassing an award-winning quarterly print magazine, 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. Each year more than 50,000 students and educators access the encyclopedia as part of their Louisiana social studies classes. The institute has expanded encyclopedia content by adapting and grade-leveling encyclopedia content for the classroom and developing a new search function that allows students and teachers to find content aligned with new Louisiana social studies standards.
The LDOE, one of LEH’s partners on the 64 Parishes Encyclopedia expansion, introduced new social studies standards rolled out 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 3rd and 8th 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 adaptations of key texts.
The ILCH workshops and 64 Parishes Encyclopedia expansion are made possible by a grant from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. Additional support for this summer’s workshop is provided by the Gustaf W. McIlhenny Foundation.
