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The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities'
award-winning magazine, Louisiana Cultural
Vistas, can now be read worldwide via the
LEH's website, www.leh.org.
Readers anywhere
can now read the magazine's in-depth features
on Louisiana culture, history and art. To
date, the website contains not only the
current spring 2007 issue but issues dating
back to fall 2006. Eventually, our website
will contain all back issues.
Coming up in the sug from the New Orleans French Quarter and Hurricane Katrina to Shreveport. Here's what subscribers and LEH members will see in the coming issue:mmer issue are several outstanding new stories ranging:
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The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities'
new Conference and Learning Center is now
available for non-profit and business
meetings that require video conferencing and
state-of-the-art presentation technology. The
new Conference Center at historic Turners
Hall now enables the LEH to provide services
to non-profit and business communities
unequaled in the state under its own roof.
For the first time, the LEH can provide
fully-equipped electronic meeting rooms and
classrooms for almost any type of conference
or educational program, including in-service
teacher professional development initiatives.
The Center is available to business and
professional groups, corporations, non-profit
organizations, universities and other
interested organizations.
For an on-line, 360-degree walking tour of the new Conference Center and rental rates, click here. Remember to place your mouse cursor on the photo of each room, hold down your mouse button, move north, south, west or east to see the entire on-line view of each meeting room. |
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School immersion and partnership with
criminal justice system
LEH's Prime Time award-winning "formula" for successfully reaching low-literacy, at-risk-families is being extended into two different directions this fall in Caddo and Lincoln parishes.
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Alexandria - The last of the
Winter/Spring RELIC programs is underway in
Alexandria with "The Creole Identity and
Experience." For local information on this
program, call 445-6436." Sign up for new
reading programs! Two new adult reading
programs, "The Creole Identity and
Experience" and "Battleground Louisiana," a
program about the Civil War in Louisiana, are
concluding their pilot phases and now are
going to be available statewide for public
libraries. Scheduling for the Summer/Fall
period is now underway and interested
libraries should contact LEH RELIC Director
Jim Segreto at 504620-2477. Library patrons
should ask their local libraries to host
these reading programs. Sites tentatively
scheduled to hold these and other programs
are Winnfield, Morgan City, Bastrop,
Abbeville, New Orleans and
Covington. A final site schedule will
appear in the next issue of this newsletter.
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Throughout the month of June and into July,
the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities is
sponsoring institutes in United States
history for teachers in the Orleans and Caddo
parish regions. These programs are
underwritten by two $1 million grants the LEH
received from the U.S. Department of
Education's Teaching American History program
in partnership with the Orleans and Caddo
public school systems.
Shreveport
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The National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) has awarded free copies of classic
books to 2,000 public and school libraries
throughout the United States, including
libraries in 36 Louisiana communities. Each
library will receive the 15 classic books on
the theme of the "Pursuit of Happiness" from
the We the People Bookshelf, along
with four titles also offered in Spanish
translation.
The new awards are part of the Endowment's
We the People program, which supports
projects that strengthen the teaching, study,
and understanding of American history and
culture. Each library will receive a set of
the 15 books, four additional books in
Spanish translation, a musical CD, posters,
bookmarks, and other promotional materials
from NEH through the American Library
Association (ALA), which is working in
partnership with the Endowment. As part of
the award, libraries are organizing programs
or events to raise awareness of these classic
books and engage young readers.
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Applications are now available to participate
in a fully-funded, 10-day study tour of Saudi
Arabia. Sponsored by Aramco Services Company,
this professional development opportunity is
open to full-time Social Studies Teachers and
Library Media Specialists in grades 1-12. The
Educators to Saudi Arabia Program aims to
cultivate a greater awareness and
understanding of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
in U.S. primary and secondary schools and
communities. The Educators to Saudi Arabia
Program will examine Saudi education,
culture, history and global relations through
site visits, panel discussions and cultural
activities in the cities of Dhahran, Riyadh
and Jeddah from November 19 - December 3, 2007.
Social Studies Teachers and Library Media
Specialists in grades 1-12 are encouraged to
submit applications for the Educators to
Saudi Arabia Program. Interested individuals
can download an application at www.iie.org/aramco
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June 15: Outreach Grant preliminary proposals
due
July 15: Outreach Grant proposals due August 15: Outreach Grant preliminary proposals due September 1: Teacher Institute and Public Humanities preliminary proposals due September 15: Outreach Grant proposals due October 1: Teacher Institute and Public Humanities proposals due |
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