Reagan Education Workshops

Hello Educators! I hope you all had a productive day and received a lot of practical information to use in your classrooms. We had some great conversations about Reagan as “The Great Communicator,” the Cold War and heard from a prestigious speaker, Dr. Donal O’Sullivan. You all made some interesting and relevant comments that were briefly mentioned during our [...]

Hello Educators! It has been a rewarding few days here at the Document of the Month workshop. We have researched, organized, edited and created a curriculum. I hope that you share my productive sentiments and will be able to effectively disseminate this information to your students. I also hope that you enjoyed witnessing the bill signing by Governor Schwarzenegger and [...]

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Education Conference 8:30 – 11:30  Picturing the Presidency: President Reagan and the Cold War Roosevelt / Jefferson Room 11:30 Lunch Break Allbritton Hall 12:00 – 1:30            Keynote Speaker: Dr. Donal O’Sullivan, CSUN Allbritton Hall Dr. Donal O’Sullivan is Assistant Professor at California State University Northridge. He has written three books and [...]

Ernesto mentioned in his presentation on the Presidential Timeline today that, “my textbook doesn’t drive my course anymore.”  He was referring to his use of supplemental materials and primary source documents in developing life long learners and critical thinking skills. Does your “textbook drive your course”?  To what extent do you integrate primary sources into [...]

Well, we’re up and running and hard at work! I am so grateful to our wonderful educators who have taken their precious summer vacation time to come to the Reagan Library, delve into our textual holdings and create an extensive body of primary-source document based lesson plans and classroom ready activities. Our educators represent schools [...]

Greetings! It’s been a super productive day two of the workshop so far. Research has continued, spirited discussions ensued, and many are currently busy working on or completing lesson plans drafts. If you have anything you’d like to share as a blog post, please let Melanie or myself know. This site is here to fit [...]

Hello Educators! It has been an exciting and productive first day at our workshop. I got a chance to speak with a few of you all about the intentions of the blog. We are looking to create an ongoing conversation with you all and to offer supplemental tools for educators before, during, and after they [...]

In case you were curious, the schedule for the Document of the Month Workshop is as follows:   July 26-28, 2010   Monday          8:30 – 9:30      Opening, CLU Registration                         9:30 – 11:30    Orientation, Introduction, Archives Tour                         11:30 – 12:30  Lunch                         12:30 – 4:30    Begin Topic Identification/Research   Tuesday          8:30 – 9:30      Process [...]

My work as an intern at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library commenced on June 1, 2010. Currently I work for the Director of Education, Mira Cohen, for the “Document of the Month” program. I am responsible for locating and examining primary source documents that relate to the Reagan Presidency for both the Library’s annual education [...]

Hi! I have been interning at the Reagan Library for just over a month now, and it has been quite an exciting experience! My first task was pouring through White House files on the Supreme Court during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. It’s amazing how much you can learn by looking through primary source documents, they really [...]