The Historian in Residence Program

For the last eight years, The Historian in Residence program has been bringing in-depth history to classrooms all over Seattle in a way that involves kids' minds, bodies and hearts. During one-hour long sessions over a series of 2 to 15 days (depending on the needs of the individual teacher), The Historian in Residence uses story-telling, visual imagery techniques and activities designed to accomodate all types of multiple intelligences, to makes social studies meaningful and personal to each student. The integration of listening, drawing, acting, speaking, writing and thinking has made the program a success in nine different schools and thirty two classrooms. The goal of the program is to foster a love of history that will:

	Promote cultural literacy on important historical topics.
	Help provide a moral compass for looking at the past, present and future,
	Encourage multiple modes of expression,
	Provide topics for critical thinking and writing,
	Motivate interest in reading non-fiction.