National Resource Centers for Foreign Language, Area and International Studies

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Northeast National Resource Center on Canada

Killam Fellowship option for undergraduate Study Abroad (4/1/2007 - 8/15/2008)

Canada Valise (8/14/2007 - 8/15/2008)

Club Canada (8/14/2007 - 8/14/2008)

Teaching Canada website (8/14/2007 - 8/14/2008)

A National Search was conducted in fall 2007 by the Center for the Study of Canada for a Coordinator of Outreach Program Activities. (8/24/2007 - 1/14/2008)

Killam Fellowship Program (8/27/2007 - 5/15/2008)

Teaching Canada, Volume 27 (8/27/2007 - 8/14/2008)

American Association of Teachers of French (10/25/2007)

New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies (10/28/2007)

Presentations by Les Buell of Buell's Educational Consultants (10/29/2007 - 6/3/2008)

Presentation: Laurier Turgeon, "French Fishers and Fur Traders in the Gulf of Maine during the second half of the 16th Century" (10/30/2007)

Alice R. Stewart Graduate Lecture Series (11/6/2007)

Film Screening: Catherine Martin, Filmmaker (11/7/2007)

Canada-in-the-Classroom Afterschool Workshop for K-12 teachers (11/8/2007)

The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States 19th Biennial Conference. (11/14/2007 - 11/18/2007)

National Council for the Social Studies (11/29/2007 - 12/2/2007)

National Council for Social Studies Conference (11/30/2007 - 12/2/2007)

Fulbright Research Chair in Canadian Studies (1/8/2008 - 4/30/2008)

In-District Workshop, Paton School, Shrewsbury, MA (1/22/2008)

Distinguished Canadian Address (1/24/2008)

Presentation: Jean-Benoit Nadeau, "The Story of French" (1/31/2008)

Celebrons Quebec (2/8/2008)

U.S. Department of Education International Education Programs Service forum "Fostering Connection, Collaboration, and Creative Ideas" (2/22/2008 - 2/23/2008)

Presentation: "The Process of Map Design" (2/25/2008)

Teacher Consultant (3/1/2008 - 8/15/2008)

In-district Workshop, Pine Hill School, Sherborn, MA (3/5/2008)

In-District Workshop, Medfield Elementary School, Medfield, MA (3/20/2008)

Northeast Regional Council for the Social Studies (3/27/2008 - 3/29/2008)

Professional Development Workshop: Five Themes of Geography with Canadian Children's Literature (3/28/2008)

Quebec Winter Symposium (4/4/2008 - 4/6/2008)

Canada Unit Resource Boxes (4/11/2008 - 4/25/2008)

Scholar-inResidence Program II (4/13/2008 - 4/15/2008)

Scholar-in-Residence Program (4/29/2008 - 5/1/2008)

International Conference Loyalism and the Revolutionary Atlantic World (6/4/2008 - 6/7/2008)

Summer Institute for Teachers of French (6/22/2008 - 7/2/2008)

Canada Day at Children's Museum (6/25/2008 - 7/25/2008)

K-12 Summer Institute (7/6/2008 - 7/11/2008)

Summer Teachers Institute (7/6/2008 - 7/11/2008)

CONNECT (7/21/2008 - 7/25/2008)

CONNECT (7/21/2008 - 7/26/2008)

Quebec Summer Seminar: "Quebec, the Art of Living in North America: 400 years and Beyond." (8/4/2008 - 8/8/2008)

Teaching Canada (8/14/2008 - 12/31/2009)

Professional Development Circulating the Canada Valise - traveling trunk of Canadian objects and teaching materials (9/1/2008 - 6/30/2009)

Professional Development Consult and advise teachers with their curriculum, qualify and recommend teaching resources, and lend materials from a Teacher Resources Library. Maintain lending library of Canadian studies teaching resources, and increase library holdings. Materials are sent around the country to teachers requesting teaching materials. (9/1/2008 - 6/30/2009)

Professional Development Maintain the Secretariat for the Association for Quebec Studies at UMaine. (9/1/2008 - 8/15/2009)

Inaugural Welcoming Bar-B-Q for New Canadian Students (9/24/2008)

Professional Development Contracted for 3 Canadian content articles, submitting them to the national social studies teachers publication, Social Education vol 72 number 6 (10/1/2008 - 12/31/2008)

Professional Development Canadian Studies Content and Resources table at the National Council for Geographic Education annual conference (10/9/2008 - 10/12/2008)

International Colloquium Quebec Questions Quebec Studies for the 21st Century (10/16/2008 - 10/18/2008)

Professional Development Workshop to teachers of French at the Maine Chapter of the American Association for Teachers of French titled Champlain, la musique et la French idees pedagogiques (10/18/2008)

Canadian Studies Alumni Networking Brunch (10/19/2008)

Pre-service workshop for SUNY Brockport student teachers (10/27/2008)

Professional Development Workshop K-12 Geography Workshop, Geography Action Mapping the Americas (10/27/2008)

CONNECT (10/29/2008 - 4/23/2009)

Distinguished Lecturer Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie University Professor of History, Halifax, NS. The Loyal Atlantic Canada as Counter-Revolution (10/29/2008)

Graduate Student Presentation Alice R. Stewart Graduate Student Lecture Series (10/30/2008)

Public event for families Mapping the Americas with Maine Geographic Alliance in collaboration with the Maine Discovery Museum (11/2/2008)

Professional Development Programming Presented several workshops and one day-long program for Grade 9 teachers of World Geography, Using Geographic Inquiry to Explore our Northern Neighbor Canada. (11/7/2008 - 11/13/2008)

Professional Development Collaborative Outreach to national social studies teachers annual conference Canada is Coming to NCSS! (11/13/2008 - 11/16/2008)

Professional Development Provided Canadian studies content and resources information table at the National council for the Social Studies annual conference (11/13/2008 - 11/16/2008)

National Council for Social Studies Conference (11/14/2008 - 11/16/2008)

In-Class Teaching Big Giant Map 26ft. x 35ft of North America at the Stillwater Montessori School. (12/5/2008)

Sodus Central School presentation (1/11/2009)

Canada Speakers Series Program (2/3/2009 - 6/4/2009)

Professional Development Prepared and provided research materials and objects to the Minnesota Humanities Center for their annual 2-day K-12 professional development institute on Canada. (2/7/2009 - 2/8/2009)

Oakfield Elementary School Grade 5 (2/9/2009)

Radio broadcast Liam Riordan interviewed on New Brunswicks Canadian Broadcasting Corp. about the content of the international academic conference about loyalism. (2/26/2009)

Professional Development Workshop The Champlain Map Teaching French Language and North American Francophone History at the Foreign Language Association of Maine (3/15/2009)

Peer Teaching Canadian Studies Content and Resources Table at the Title VI 50th Anniversary Conference. (3/18/2009)

Peer Teaching Presentation of best practices in Canadian Studies outreach to the Title VI 50th Anniversary Conference. Presentation title Who in the World is Coming to NCSS Future Directions of Title VI Outreach (3/18/2009)

Who in the World is Coming to National Council for the Social Studies workshop (3/19/2009 - 3/21/2009)

Program Nadine Bismuth, Quebecois author speaking about contemporary Quebec literature as well as her role as an honored author. (3/24/2009)

Quebec Winter Symposium (3/27/2009 - 3/29/2009)

Institute Scholar-in-Residence Program (3/29/2009 - 3/31/2009)

Celebrons Quebec (3/30/2009 - 4/2/2009)

Canadian Studies information and resources table at the New York State Council for the Social Studies (4/1/2009 - 4/4/2009)

Professional Development Canadian Studies Content and Resources Table at the New York State Council for the Social Studies annual meeting. (4/1/2009 - 4/4/2009)

Professional Development Workshop presented to the New York State Council on the Social Studies, titled Teaching history, geography, and critical thinking skills with an explanatory map about Champlain and the people he met (4/3/2009)

Williamson Middle School presentation (4/3/2009)

Distinguished Lecturer David Hackett Fischer, Brandeis University Professor of History, Waltham, MA. speaking about his recent book, Champlains Dream. (4/15/2009)

Preservice workshop for SUNY Brockport student teachers (4/15/2009)

Scholar-in-Residence Program (4/26/2009 - 4/28/2009)

Professional Development Co-created outline for Grade 6 Canada Unit with team leader, and prepared and provided research boxes of hanging files relating to each province/territory. (5/1/2009 - 5/30/2009)

Public Event Family Geography Day called Celebrating Neighbors at the Maine Discovery Museum. (5/2/2009)

Faculty Professional Development French Language Faculty Institute, a week-long French immersion institute held in Chicoutimi for faculty from the University of Maine and SUNY Plattsburgh. (5/31/2009 - 6/6/2009)

Onondaga Central School presentation grades 7and8 (6/15/2009)

Wheeler Elementary School presentation Grade 5 (6/15/2009)

Salmon River Elementary School presentation (6/16/2009)

Walt Disney School presentation (6/18/2009)

Professional Development provided and loaned Canadian objects and resources to the Maine Discovery Museum for a week focusing on Canada Day. (6/25/2009 - 7/5/2009)

Professional Development Workshop to K-12 teachers of economics, Globalization and labor mobility from a Canadian Perspective at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. (6/30/2009)

Canada Valise (9/5/2009 - 6/20/2010)

French Immigrants to North America (10/18/2009)

Alice R. Stewart Canadian Studies Graduate Lectures (11/3/2009)

Lecture Developing an Understanding of Canadas North (11/5/2009)

Teaching Geography of Canada workshop (11/12/2009)

Resource and information table of teaching materials at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference (11/13/2009 - 11/15/2009)

Teaching History with a Map The Champlain Map (11/13/2009 - 11/15/2009)

Qallunaat! Why White people are Funny film and discussion (12/2/2009)

Maine Island Readers and Writers Big Read of 2010 (1/22/2010 - 2/21/2010)

Key Note Speaker at FLAME conference (3/5/2010)

Seminar with Dr. M. Robitaile author, and professor of literature, Universite du Quebec a Rimouski (3/25/2010)

Quebecs Quite Revolution and Beyond lecture (4/16/2010)

Canadas Quilt of Belonging (4/18/2010)

National Outreach Conference Canada and the American Curriculum (5/24/2010 - 5/25/2010)

Summer Institute for K-12 Professionals (6/26/2010 - 7/2/2010)

Summer Teachers Institute (6/26/2010 - 7/1/2010)

Summer Institute for Teachers of French (6/27/2010 - 7/3/2010)

Teacher Workshop on Globalization and International Economics (6/28/2010 - 6/30/2010)

Quebec Summer Seminar (8/2/2010 - 8/6/2010)

Killam Fellowship Program (8/27/2010 - 5/15/2011)

Canada Valise (9/1/2010 - 6/30/2011)

Phase I of curriculum project (9/1/2010 - 6/30/2011)

Teacher Resource Library (9/1/2010 - 6/30/2011)

Website for US teachers (9/1/2010 - 6/30/2011)

Lecture (9/16/2010)

Inaugural CONNECT Colloquium Program (10/14/2010 - 10/15/2010)

Presentations by Les Buell of Buells Educational Consultants (10/29/2010 - 6/3/2011)

Inaugural Quebec Studies Colloquium (11/3/2010)

The American Council for Quebec Studies Biennial Conference (11/4/2010 - 11/7/2010)

Quebec Speaker Series (11/8/2010)

Canada Community teachers special interest group (11/11/2010 - 11/14/2010)

National Council for Social Studies Conference (11/12/2010 - 11/14/2010)

Distinguished Quebec Address/Meet and Greet (12/3/2010)

Seminar presentation (1/13/2011)

Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies (1/16/2011 - 5/15/2011)

Canada and the MA Curriculum Fitting Canada into the 4th Grade Literature, Social Studies and Art Classroom (2/12/2011)

Celebrons Quebec (3/2/2011)

Presentation to students (3/10/2011)

Distinguished Lecturer (3/29/2011)

Quebec Winter Symposium (4/1/2011 - 4/3/2011)

Family Geography Day at Maine Discovery Museum (4/10/2011)

Workshop for elementary students (4/14/2011)

K-12 Summer Institute (6/26/2011 - 7/1/2011)

Quebec Dimensions Historical, Geographic and Cultural Explorations summer teachers institute (6/26/2011 - 7/2/2011)

Interview on Nova Scotia radio station (7/12/2011)

Leader of one day seminar on Loyalism and Print Culture in the American Revolution (7/13/2011)

Presentation at the Acadian Internship in Regional Conservation and Stewardship (7/15/2011)

Interview for New Brunswick newspaper article (7/20/2011)

Research Opportunities within the American Council for Quebec Studies, summer seminar presentation (7/29/2011)

Killam Fellowship Program (8/27/2011 - 5/15/2012)

Canada Valise, nationally circulating suitcase of objects and teaching materials. (9/1/2011 - 6/30/2012)

French in the Woods Francais au bord de la Mer (9/16/2011 - 9/18/2011)

Borderlands lecture presentation to Maine Humanities Council (9/20/2011)

Canadian Studies Distinguished Lecturer, University of Laval professor of history Jocelyn Letourneau (10/12/2011)

Conference organized by history graduate students for Canadian History graduate students (10/14/2011 - 10/16/2011)

Alice Stewart Graduate Lecture Series (10/19/2011)

Canada and its Diversity day long workshop for K-7 social studies teachers and teachers of French. (10/20/2011)

Canadian history lecture presented to retirement community (10/20/2011)

University of New Brunswick professor lectured as part of the UMaine Humanities Initiative (10/20/2011)

21st Association for Canadian Studies in the United States ACSUS Biennial Conference (11/16/2011 - 11/20/2011)

Panel Session at Association for Canadian Studies in the US biannual conference (11/17/2011)

Distinguished Canadian Address Gala Dinner and Presentation given by Mr. John Murray, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada (11/29/2011)

National Council for Social Studies Conference (12/2/2011 - 12/4/2011)

Celebrons Quebec (3/7/2012 - 3/8/2012)

Quebec Visiting Scholar-in-Residence Program (3/7/2012 - 3/8/2012)

Canadas History of Environmental Change, Transforming Canada lecture series presentation (3/19/2012)

Teaching and Learning About Canada after school workshop (4/2/2012)

Northeast Regional Council for the Social Studies annual meeting for 400 social studies teachers (4/3/2012 - 4/6/2012)

Research Opportunities within the American Council for Quebec Studies, spring seminar presentation (4/10/2012)

Conference Cross-Border Economic Integration in the Northeast Current Status, Future Prospects (4/23/2012 - 4/24/2012)

Quebec Speaker Series (4/29/2012 - 5/1/2012)

Teacher training Maine French Language Heritage program (6/5/2012)

Teacher training Maine French Language Heritage program (6/19/2012)

Teacher training for language teachers at the Bangor School of Chinese Language and Culture (6/20/2012)

Teacher training Maine French Language Heritage program (7/6/2012)

CONNECT SUMMER SEMINAR (7/23/2012 - 7/26/2012)

Quebec Summer Seminar (8/6/2012 - 8/10/2012)

National Council for the Social Studies annual convention for 4000 K-16 teachers. (12/2/2012 - 12/4/2012)