Description of CHARGE Cadres:
CHARGE Cadres for American History and Civics will lead K-8 teachers throughout intentional study of the pivotal turning points in American history covering the following:
- Year 1: 1619 – 1783: Creating and Defining a Nation;
- Year 2: 1784 – 1877: Preservation and Redefining a Nation;
- Year 3: 1878 – 1917: Industrialization and Civic Evolution;
(Cohort 2 Teachers joining- deeper study of time periods)
- Year 4: 1619 – 1783: Creating and Defining a Nation;
- Year 5: 1784 – 1877: Preservation and Redefining a Nation;
Cadres will take the form of professional learning conducted via a combination of night, weekend, school-day sessions, in conjunction with an NCHE five-day Summer Academy. These will be presented daily by a Historian, a Master History Teacher, and a learning specialist and a 4-day Experiential Immersion CHARGE Cadres trip to a significant historical city within the theme to provide further first-hand opportunities to pull from when teaching. The Cadres thereby exposes participants to the ideas and arguments that shaped these great American epochs, the documents that make up our history, and the places where the history was made.
