Teacher Workshops

Previous Civil Rights Educator Institute participants at Little Rock Central High School NHS Visitor Center with Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine.
Previous Civil Rights Educator Institute participants at Little Rock Central High School NHS Visitor Center with Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine.

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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site is committed to meeting the demands for National Park Service-sponsored professional development (PD). Traditionally, we offer workshops or other ways to earn PD credits/hours. Programs in the past included a screening of the film 'Harriet' plus talkback with Tina Martin Wyatt, great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman, and the annual Civil Rights Educator Institute.

Workshops will be posted here as well as on the park calendar - for more information, please contact Brian Schwieger at 501-374-1957. Workshops will correlate to Arkansas's Social Studies Frameworks and/or the National Educational Technology Standards and have been approved by the Arkansas Department of Education.

Past PD's

2024 Civil Rights Educator Institute

Monday, June 24 - Friday, June 28, 2024

A civil rights conference that commemorated and examined the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education SCOTUS decision

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site hosted a Civil Rights Educator Institute (CREI) from Monday, June 24 through Friday, June 28, 2024. Partners for this professional development included:
  • Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home
  • Eisenhower Foundation
  • Eisenhower Memorial Commission
  • Humanities Kansas
  • Jefferson National Parks Association
  • U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
  • William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum



The 2024 CREI was held in conjunction with a civil rights conference commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision; the conference will include presentations by historians and civil rights leaders as well as personal stories from those who lived it.

 
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site offers professional development opportunities to educational organizations and institutions; if you want to request a Park Ranger to present to your organization or to be added to our educator contact list and receive announcements on upcoming workshops or seminars, please email Brian Schwieger at brian_schwieger@nps.gov

Last updated: February 6, 2025

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Mailing Address:

Little Rock Central High School NHS
2120 W. Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive

Little Rock, AR 72202-5212

Phone:

(501) 516-7230

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