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KEEP Case Studies: Representing Pedagogical and Curricular innovations
The California History and Social Science Project
Elizabeth Wellman, the director of the California History and Social Science Project (CHSSP), approached the KML in December 2002 after seeing a conference presentation by the KML staff describing the snapshot tool and its potential. Wellman—and her colleague Bob Bain, a professor at the University of Michigan, adviser to the CHSSP, and CASTL scholar—thought that the tools would provide a small group of CHSSP scholars new ways to represent their pedagogical and curricular innovations in history and social science curriculum. We adapted the CASTL snapshot to reflect some of the framing ideas of the CHSSP. Wellman and Bain identified several teachers across California who could serve as a pilot cohort. The KML held two brief conference calls with the cohort to help them design a template with discipline-specific prompts, and the five teachers subsequently worked independently to put their work online. Although the CHSSP lost much of their state funding in the middle of the teachers' pilot efforts, several still managed to create their snapshots with only minimal support from the KML. |
