Welcome Back!

Welcome back! Or if you are new to Teaching Montana History, welcome. I hope everyone had a good summer. The first posts of the school year are always business, so let's get started.

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Montana History Conference Scholarships

Don’t forget: We have travel scholarships available to teachers wishing to attend the 45th Annual Montana History Conference (held this year in Helena) September 26-28. Scholarship applications are due by 11:59 p.m. September 8, 2019. Awards will be announced the following week. You can find the conference program and the scholarship application information here. If you can't attend the entire conference, consider just joining us for the Thursday educator workshop ($25, lunch included, 6 OPI Renewal Units.)

For Students with Learning Disabilities

Did you know? Montana: Stories of the Land is available as an audiobook for students with learning disabilities through Learning Ally.

Finding Stuff

Over the course of the next school year you'll get weekly emails filled with links to resources, teaching strategies, and lesson plans as well as information about upcoming workshops and online training opportunities. A number of teachers have mentioned that they have trouble storing or remembering the information for future lessons. That's where the Teaching Montana History blog can help. I post every email on this blog and tag it with labels like "elementary" or "IEFA." The blog also has a search function so if you want to do a timeline exercise and have a vague memory of a past post on the topic, you can go to the search bar, type in "timeline" and see what comes up.  

MHS Resources

I hope most of you are already using our Montana history and Indian Education for All resources. If so, would you help us out? Please email mkohl@mt.gov if you find any broken links or other problems in the PDFs or on the site. We can usually fix things quickly—but only if we know about them. So, if you see something, say something.

If you haven't checked out the lesson plans on these sites, I hope you will do that now. And don't forget about our online professional development opportunities--for which you can earn OPI Renewal units.