We're coming to a town near you!

 The Montana Historical Society is very excited to be sending veteran teacher and workshop leader extraordinaire Jim Schulz back on the road this March and April with the workshop Making It Real. Jim will be traveling to Great Falls (March 23), Butte (March 25), Missoula (March 28), Bozeman (April 4), Billings (April 6), and Miles City (April 7). 

The free, one-day workshop (which can be taken for 6 OPI Renewal Credits) is designed to

• Introduce the new fourth-grade Montana history curriculum Montana: A History of Our Home.
• Provide teachers to specific lesson plans that they can use to teach Montana and U.S. history.
• Highlight the benefits of interdisciplinary teaching.
• Introduce teachers to Civic Online Reasoning, a curriculum created by the Stanford History Education Group to help teach students how to evaluate online information. 

If you've attended a Jim Schulz-led workshop in the past, you know how great he is, and you won't want to miss out. If you've never attended a Jim Schulz workshop, you are in for a treat.  

Here's what teachers have said about previous workshops Jim has taught for us: 

• “One of the most productive and informational PIR workshops I have ever done…”
• “Jim's workshop inspired to me reflect on my teaching practice."

You can find the detailed agenda and links to register on our website.  

We hope you can come! And we hope you'll help us spread the word. Please share this information and the registration links with colleagues you think may be interested. 

Register for the Great Falls workshop. 

Register for the Butte workshop.

Register for the Missoula workshop.

Register for the Bozeman workshop.

Register for the Billings workshop. 

Register for the Miles City workshop. 

In addition to the six "Making It Real" workshops Jim is giving, I'll be joining Teacher Leader in Montana History Jennifer Hall in Kalispell to present "New Standards? No Problem!: Resources for Fourth Grade Social Studies" for the Northwest Montana Educational Cooperative from 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. on March 15. The coop has opened the class to all fourth-grade teachers, regardless of whether your school is in the coop, so if you teach fourth grade and are within an easy drive of Kalispell, I hope to see you there! Problems registering through PIRNet? Contact the coop at 406-752-3302.