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<h3 align="center">NEH LANDMARKS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE: <br />WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS</h3>
<h3 align="center"><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline">APPLICATION INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS</span></h3>
<p>Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops are offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide K-12 educators with the opportunity to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics and issues in American history and culture, while providing them with direct experiences in the interpretation of significant historical sites and the use of archival and other primary evidence. </p>
<p>Prior to completing an application to a specific workshop, please review the "Dear Colleague Letter" from the project director (available on the project’s web site, or as an e-mail attachment) and consider carefully what is expected in terms of residence and attendance, reading and writing requirements, and participation in the work of the project.</p>
<p>NEH Landmarks Workshops will allow 40 teachers at a time to collaborate with core faculty and visiting scholars. The Workshops are designed to present the best available scholarship on a specific landmark or related cluster of landmarks. Participants benefit by gaining a sense of the importance of historical and cultural places, by making connections between the workshop content and what they teach, and by developing individual teaching and/or research materials.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline">ELIGIBILITY</span></h3>
<p>These projects are designed principally for full-time and part-time classroom teachers and librarians in public, charter, independent, and religiously affiliated schools, as well as home schooling parents. Other K-12 school personnel, including administrators, substitute teachers, classroom professionals, are eligible to participate, subject to available space. </p>
<p>Teachers at schools in the United States or its territorial possessions, or Americans teaching in foreign schools where at least 50 percent of the students are American nationals are eligible for this program. Applicants must be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Foreign nationals teaching abroad at non-U.S. chartered institutions are not eligible to apply. Individuals may not apply to participate in a Workshop given by the same director on the same topic in which they have previously participated; in other words, they should not apply to attend the same Workshop twice. Individuals may not apply to study with an NEH Landmarks director who is a family member.</p>
<p>Applicants must complete the <span style="text-decoration:underline">NEH application cover sheet</span> and provide all of the information requested below to be considered eligible.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline">SELECTION CRITERIA</span></h3>
<p>A selection committee will read and evaluate all properly completed applications.</p>
<p>Special consideration is given to the likelihood that an applicant will benefit professionally and personally from the Workshop experience. It is important, therefore, to address each of the following factors in preparing the application essay:</p>
<p> 1) your professional background;</p>
<p> 2) your interest in the subject of the Workshop;</p>
<p> 3) your special perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to the Workshop; and </p>
<p> 4) how the experience would enhance your teaching or school service.</p>
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<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline">STIPEND, TENURE, AND CONDITIONS OF AWARD</span></h3>
<p>Teachers selected to participate as NEH Summer Scholars will receive a stipend of $1,200 at the end of the residential workshop session. Stipends are intended to <strong>help</strong> cover travel expenses to and from the project location, books, and ordinary living expenses. Stipends are taxable. </p>
<p><strong>NEH Summer Scholars are required to attend all scheduled meetings and to engage fully as professionals in all project activities. Participants who do not complete the full tenure of the project will receive a reduced stipend. </strong></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline">APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS</span></h3>
<p>Before you attempt to complete an application, please obtain and read the "Dear Colleague Letter" from the director(s) of the project(s) to which you intend to apply (in most cases, it can be found on the project's website). The document contains detailed information about the topic under study, project requirements and expectations of the participants, the academic and institutional setting, and specific provisions for lodging and subsistence.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline">APPLICATION CHECKLIST</span></h3>
<p>A completed application consists of <strong>three</strong> copies of the following <strong>collated</strong> items:</p>
<ul>
<li>copy of the completed NEH online application cover sheet,</li>
<li>a résumé or short biography, and</li>
<li>an application essay (up to two double-spaced pages) as outlined below. </li>
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<p>In addition, it must include <strong>one</strong> letter of recommendation as described below. </p>
<p><strong>US Postal Mail this packet to:</strong><br /> Dr. Caroline R. Pryor, Project Director<br /> Southern Illinois University Edwardsville<br /> Department of Curriculum and Instruction<br /> PO Box 1122<br /> Edwardsville, Il 62026-1122</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline">Application Cover Sheet</span></h3>
<p>The application cover sheet must be filled out on line at this address:<br /><a href="http://www.neh.gov/online/education/participants/" target="_blank">http://www.neh.gov/online/education/participants/ </a></p>
<p style='mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Georgia", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; '>Please follow the prompts; be sure to indicate your first and second choices of workshop dates.<strong style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Georgia", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; '><span style='mso-spacerun:yes;mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Georgia", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; '> </span></strong> Print out the cover sheet and add it to your application package.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes;mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Georgia", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; '> </span> <strong style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Georgia", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; '>Finally, be sure to click on the “submit” button.</strong><span style='mso-spacerun:yes;mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Georgia", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; '> </span>A full application consists of all of the items listed above, as sent to the project director at SIUE.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><strong>Résumé</strong></span><strong><br /></strong>Please include a résumé or brief biography detailing your educational qualifications and professional experience.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><strong>Application Essay</strong></span><strong><br /></strong>The application essay should be up to <strong>two double-spaced pages</strong>. The essay should address your professional background; interest in the subject of the workshop; special perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to the Workshop; and how the experience would enhance your teaching or school service.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><strong>Reference Letter</strong></span> <strong><br /></strong>Each applicant should provide a letter of recommendation from his or her school principal, department head, district administrator, or home-schooling association president as appropriate. Please ask your referee to sign across the seal on the back of the envelope containing the letter. Enclose the letter with your application.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline">SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS AND NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE</span></h3>
<p>Completed applications should be submitted <strong>to the project director,</strong> not the NEH, and <strong>POSTMARKED</strong><strong> no later than March 1, 2012. Application materials sent to the NEH will not be reviewed.</strong></p>
<p>Successful applicants will be notified of their selection on April 2, 2012, and they will have until April 6, 2012 to accept or decline the offer. </p>
<p><strong>Once you have accepted an offer to attend any NEH Summer Program (NEH Landmarks Workshops, NEH Summer Seminars, or NEH Summer Institutes), you may not accept an additional offer or withdraw in order to accept a different offer. </strong></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline">EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT</span></h3>
<p>Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information, write to NEH Equal Opportunity Officer, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. TDD: 202/606 8282 (for the hearing impaired only).</p>
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