Are you a history, civics, or government classroom teacher that wants additional support to teach about the Civil Rights Era? Participate in the 2024 Moton Museum Teacher Institute!
The Moton Museum is excited to share that we are hosting our 5th Moton Museum Teacher Institute starting June 25th to June 27th. This three day immersive experience invites educators to investigate the role of judicial review throughout America’s history, Jim Crow Recreation for Black Americans, primary resource analysis techniques, and Moton Museum history. We are thrilled to be partnering with the John Marshall House and to be returning to Twin Lakes State Park. Teachers will have two weeks to finish all deliverables for a suggested 60 recertification points.
Dates: June 25-27th, 2025 at the Moton Museum
Cost: $20
Moton is offering three mandatory onsite days with two weeks to complete the online Canvas portion. Teachers will have food and lodging covered for these three days. We want the experience to be as equitable as possible. Teachers will receive a $250 stipend upon successful course completion. This stipend will refund the $20 registration fee.
The course is based on the Moton Museum’s permanent exhibition, ‘Moton School Story: Children of Courage.’ Teachers will engage with recorded lectures, review Civil Rights, Massive Resistance, and Desegregation histories, and create potential programming for their classroom. The class will cover Moton Museum history along with providing primary source analysis tools and research techniques.
Learning Objectives:
- Incorporate the Moton School Story into their classrooms
- Learn new primary source analysis techniques by utilizing Moton Museum graphic organizers
- Examine and apply pedagogical tools for historical critical thinking about the Civil Rights Movement
- Expand teacher understanding of Judicial Review and Jim Crow Era conditions
- Incorporate literary techniques to further student comprehension
- Evaluate Moton Museum educational programming
MMTI Guest Facilitators:
- Cainan Townsend, Executive Director, Moton Museum
- Jamie Krogh, Archivist, Longwood University
- Dr. Larissa Smith, Moton Resident Scholar & Professor of History, Longwood University
- Dr. J. Michael Utzinger, Moton Resident Scholar & Elliott Professor of Religion, Hampden-Sydney College
- Dr. Alecia Blackwood, Assistant Professor of Education, Longwood University
- Jolie Davis, Education Support Specialist, Twins lake State Park
For More Information Contact:
Leah Brown
Associate Director for Education & Collections
[email protected]
434.315.8775 (ext. 2)
Registration opens April 7th, 2025
Course Dates June 25-27, 2025:
Admission for the course is rolling, but there are only 20 spots available.
You must attend all three onsite days to be able to participate in MMTI 2025. Certificates of completion with suggested recertification points will be awarded upon course completion. The online portion of the course will use the Canvas learning platform. Details for this along with other educational materials will be provided upon registration for the course.
REGISTER HERE – registration opens April 7th, 2025
MMTI 2.0
For Returning Teachers!
Save the Date!
Welcome Back! The Moton Museum is invites former MMTI participants back for an onsite one day collaborative experience to refresh and reconnect with the Moton School Story. Teachers will also see new Moton education materials and primary resource analysis tools.
Date- June 23rd, 2025
Sponsored by funding from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund.
