(Culver City, CA Oct. 15, 2018) Human Assistance and Development International (HADI) has been selected by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) to receive a Grant for creating safer communities in California. The announcement of the award was made on October 12, 2018, via a press release from Cal OES. This pilot will be implemented by The Center for Languages, Arts, & Societies of the Silk Road (CLASSRoad) an initiative of HADI.
B.R.I.G.H.T.-Teacher Training program seeks to build a training curriculum that will provide a disciplinary approach to promoting civil discourse in the pre-collegiate classroom and will be delivered via a joint collaboration with the National Humanities Center (NHC).
The project plans to train 20 teachers in the San Bernardino City Unified School District; and is centered on building middle and high school history and social studies teacher capacity for providing classroom environments that build student understanding and practice around considering multiple perspectives, developing cultural tolerance, civil discourse and critical thinking.
About HADI/CLASSRoad and the NHC:
HADI is a non-profit organization working for the socio-economic and educational development of people worldwide. CLASSRoad is a valued provider of professional development STARTALK courses since 2007 and has been awarded over $1.5 million in cumulative annual program funds from the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) located at the University of Maryland. CLASSRoad has considerable experience in managing and building online courses and resources for teachers across the nation and can support a sophisticated array of learning tools and instructional methods to build an effective online learning environment.
Now in its 40th year in operation, the National Humanities Center is one of the world’s leading institutes for advanced study and the only independent institution of its kind dedicated exclusively to the humanities. Over the past four decades, the Center has encouraged excellence in scholarship and teaching while constantly affirming the vital importance of the humanities in American life. Millions of visitors each year access the Center’s free online resources, including hundreds of historical documents, literary texts, works of art and teaching tools.
Since 1983, when it first welcomed high school history and literature teachers to participate in seminars led by scholars, the Center has been distinctive among its peers in its commitment to linking scholarship to improved teaching. Teachers and college instructors from across the United States have benefited from in-depth, onsite training at the Center in summer seminars led by distinguished scholars.
In 2008, the Center launched a new online training initiative for teachers and now conducts over numerous webinars, online courses, and workshops throughout the school year on a wide variety of topics in history, literature, and culture. This format allows teachers to directly interact with scholars and other teachers while gaining knowledge and tools for use in the classroom.
For more information contact:
Project Director
Dr. Mahbuba Hammad
Phone: (310) 845-6149