Our Sites
The first California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) activity began in 1989 at UCLA, shortly after the California Subject Matter Projects (CSMP) was created in 1988. Other campus sites arose beginning in 1991. CHSSP sites are located in departments of history and education at universities across the state. Scholars and K-12 teachers, current and former, collaborate to lead engaging professional development programs for the teachers in their region. You can find information about each on their individual webpages, linked below.Currently, the CHSSP has sites at:
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The Dominguez Hills History Project |
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The History Project at UC Davis |
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The UC Irvine History Project provides an institutional framework for collaboration between the UCI History Department and K-12 history-social science teachers in Orange County. The UCI History Project is dedicated to the mission of providing a space for history teachers at varying points in their career, from credential candidates to veteran teachers, to engage in high-quality professional development. Teacher participants will experience a collaborative, scholarly environment that supports the development of historical thinking, content knowledge, and pedagogical expertise. To this end, the UCI History Project staff, which includes scholars and teacher leaders, are dedicated to building a model of professional practice within their own site in order to demonstrate the habits of mind, attitudes, and behaviors necessary to continuously improve the way history is taught, as well as to more deeply understand and appreciate the discipline of history itself. The UCI History Project is one branch of a much broader program of regional outreach at UCI. For more information on these other UCI programs, please visit the Center for Educational Partnerships (CFEP). |
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The UC Los Angeles History-Geography Project Collaborating with teachers to make history relevant and empowering for students. We are history educators who are devoted to helping teachers working in urban schools. We emphasize culturally relevant curriculum and research-based practices designed to meet the needs of a diverse student body. We work with schools and districts to customize professional learning that is hands-on and collaborative. This customized professional learning addresses the instructional shifts found in the History-Social Science Framework: Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Civics. |
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The UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project believes that all students deserve high-quality education. UCBHSSP seeks to bridge the academy and K-12 communities to help teachers strengthen their instructional practice and provide equitable educational opportunities to all students, through a model of learning, practicing, and doing. Our customized professional development programs respond to the needs of school sites in order to strengthen teacher capacity and increase student discipline-specific literacy and thinking as well as content knowledge. Through institutes, workshops and seminars, and site-based coaching, UCBHSSP facilitators work with teachers to grow their practice. Our professional development approach includes models and trainings for differentiating instruction to access history, with a specific focus on supporting English learners and low level literacy students. This approach is designed through collaboration among university faculty, teacher practitioners, and literacy specialists. The UCBHSSP offers professional development to schools and districts, as well as on-site programs that are open to all teachers. Here are a few of our resources: |
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The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz is the newest regional site for the California History-Social Science Project. We believe that high quality history and civics education is vital to building a more just society and preparing California’s diverse students to be literate, knowledgeable, and engaged citizens. We look forward to working with educators in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito counties. Led by Professor George Bunch and Director Daisy Martin, Ph.D., the Project offers expertise and assistance that integrates multiple areas, including the teaching of English learners, disciplinary literacy and inquiry, meaningful assessment practices, and effective professional development and support. We connect educational practices with up-to-date scholarship through our partnerships with practicing teachers and the UC Santa Cruz History and Education departments. We look forward to supporting the region’s educators, schools, and districts in offering engaging, challenging, and significant history and civics curriculum and instruction for all of their students. |
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