Reagan Education Workshops

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

To begin, let’s start with a little explanation on the blog and the Document of the Month Workshop. We started this blog in the hopes that it will open the lines of communication between the educators attending the Document of the Month workshop and the staff who will be preparing and guiding the workshop. On [...]