Conference Description
The Kansas and Missouri Councils for History Education will pool their resources to offer an extraordinary opportunity for history educators in both states. Featured speakers, breakout sessions and interaction with colleagues will all be designed to improve history instruction. The conference theme capitalizes on the 2008 election for President of the United States to focus on the political process in a democracy and political transitions in countries with other political systems, both past and present.

The twenty break out sessions will feature sessions on technology use in the classroom, teaching about the American Presidential election and the political process, significant elections of the past as well as sessions useful for teachers of world history. Both historical content and instructional methodology will be stressed.


Major Speakers
Sam Wineburg, Professor of Education and Professor of History at Stanford University, and H. W. Brands, Professor of History at the University of Texas, will be the featured speakers.

Sam Wineburg is well known for his book, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Wineburg's work engages questions of identity and history: how today's youth use the past to construct individual and collective identities. His interests include understanding how adolescents and professional historians interpret primary sources and issues of teacher assessment and teacher community in the workplace. His extended session, "Reading Like An Historian," will appeal to teachers who struggle with improving student reading of history and other non-fiction material.

H. W. Brands has written twenty books. His books include The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, TR, The Strange Death of American Liberalism, What America Owes the World, and The Devil We Knew. The First American, a biography of Benjamin Franklin was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. Brands is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press

Sam Wineburg and Bill Brands are made available to the KCHE-MOCHE Joint Conference by the generosity of Holt Rinehart Winston and the Olathe Public Schools Teaching American History grant.


Full Program
In addition to the feature speakers noted above, the conference offers a number of breakout sessions and additional speakers. Please review the conference program for a comprehensive outline of the conference events.



Program Registration
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Questions
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