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In addition to our five-day online summer institutes, Humanities Texas will continue to hold one-hour webinars for classroom teachers covering topics in U.S. history and English language arts.

To register, please complete the online application form. Participants will receive CPE credit for attending a webinar and completing a post-webinar survey.

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Upcoming Webinars

Using Art in the Literature Classroom

Wednesday, July 1, 2020
2:00–3:00 p.m. CT
Join art educator Stacy Fuller for a webinar that provides strategies on how to engage students and support state and national teaching standards by incorporating artworks into the literature classroom. Discover how art and literature have been intertwined throughout history, and learn how to use artworks to teach character, setting, plot, mood, and point of view. Participating educators will receive supplementary materials, including digital images and classroom activities. The material can be easily adapted for a variety of grade levels, and no prior art history experience is required.

Using Art in the History Classroom

Thursday, July 2, 2020
2:00–3:00 p.m. CT
Join art educator Stacy Fuller for a webinar that provides strategies on how to engage students and support state and national teaching standards by incorporating artworks into the U.S. history classroom. Consider how an artist's choices and possible intentions and biases impact how we can interpret their works as historical documents. Participating educators will receive supplementary materials, including digital images and classroom activities. The material can be easily adapted for eighth- and eleventh-grade U.S. history courses, and no prior art history experience is required.

Stacy Fuller, former director of education and library services at the Amon Carter Museum, will lead two webinars in July on using art in social studies and ELA courses.
Jitterbugs (V) by William H. Johnson (1901–1970), ca. 1941–42. Serigraph on paper. Gift of Mrs. Douglas E. Younger, 1971.136. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.