May 1: The Last Day to Apply for a Travel Scholarship to Attend Teaching Montana Women's History Matters!

Teaching Women’s History Matters! Montana Historical Society’s Summer Educator Workshop will be held at the Montana Historical Society, 225 N. Roberts St., Helena, June 16-18 (Monday, June 16, 1:00-6:30, Tuesday, June 17, 8:30-5:00, and Wednesday, June 18, 8:30-12:30.) Participants must attend all three days.

Sixteen OPI Renewal Units will be provided.
Limit: 25
Cost: Free

We are offering a limited number of travel scholarships. Applications are due May 1 (that's tomorrow--but the application will only take a few minutes to complete).

Register for the workshop.

Apply for a travel scholarship.

 

View the agenda below.

 

Montana Women’s History Matters Agenda

 

Monday, June 16

 

1:00-1:40 Introductions

 

1:40-2:30 Women’s History 101: An Introduction to Workshop Themes (Anya Jabour, University of Montana Professor in the History and past co-director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program)

 

2:30-2:50 Writing Reflection/Discussion

 

2:50-3:00 Break

 

3:00-5:00 Mining Childhood/Doing Oral History (Janet Finn, University of Montana Professor of Social Work and author of Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960)

 

5:00-6:30 Opening Reception/Scavenger Hunt

 

Tuesday, June 17

 

8:30-8:45 Discussion of Day 1 (especially scavenger hunt results)

 

8:45-10:30 Women’s History for Elementary Students (Deb Mitchell, Montana Historical Society Program Specialist)

 

10:30-10:40 Break

 

10:40-11:30 Women and the Changing Law: A Historical Overview, Montana State Law Library staff

 

11:30-12:30 Lunch

 

12:30-1:20 Taking Action: A Political History of Women in Montana (Diane Sands, independent scholar on women's history, Montana state representative)

 

1:20-2:50 Using Personal Narratives to Learn about Indigenous Women's Lives during the Treaty Period (Laura Ferguson, Indian education consultant and curriculum developer and a contributor to the Women’s History Matters blog)

 

2:50-3:00 Break

 

3:00-5:00 Women’s History Tour (Ellen Baumler, Montana Historical Society Interpretive Historian)

 

Wednesday, June 18

 

8:30-9:00 Discussion of Day 2

 

9:00-9:45 Overview of Available Resources (Martha Kohl, Montana Historical Society Historical Specialist and Women’s History Matters Project Manager)

 

9:45-10:00 Break

 

10:00-11:15 Crowd-Sourcing Project: Gathering Resources to Integrate Women’s History into the Teaching of Montana History (participants, led by Martha Kohl)

 

11:15-12:15 Crow Women in the Twentieth Century (Mardell Hogan Plainfeather, retired National Park Service supervisory park ranger, Crow field director of the American Indian Tribal Histories Project at the Western Heritage Center in Billings, and coauthor of The Woman Who Loved Mankind: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Crow Elder, by Lillian Bullshows Hogan, As told to Barbara Loeb and Mardell Hogan Plainfeather) (awaiting confirmation)

 

12:15-1:15 Lunch/Evaluations/Depart or Research on your own