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Through HITS, Saint Paul Public School educators have the opportunity to collaborate with historians from the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society. Teachers will enrich their American history content knowledge and ability to deliver rigorous academic instruction by attending intensive summer institutes, school-year seminars and workshops, and ongoing teacher study groups. Secondary social studies teachers are welcome to participate in any or all components of the three-year program.
By combining a Disciplinary Literacy framework with content knowledge provided by professional historians, HITS will help teachers and students master both deep historical content and historical  habits of thinking. HITS participants will engage in rigorous, high-quality training that includes content-area expertise, historical resources and materials, history-specific pedagogy and instruc- tional strategies. Students will demonstrate the work of a his- torian by working with primary resources and engaging in Na- tional History Day.
HELPING STUDENTS UNDERSTAND
THE STORY OF OUR AMERICAN PAST
- How this enormous continent and its first inhabitants were transformed by the arrival of peoples from afar
- The quest for freedom, justice, opportunity and democracy - a quest that began with the Revolutionary generation, expanded through the courage and sacrifice of diverse individuals and groups and continues to this day
- The dramatic growth of the economy and society - through free markets, westward expansion immigration, industrialization and urbanization - that transformed the U.S. into the richest and most powerful nation the world has ever seen
- The ordinary people and the extraordinary people, the young and the old of all races, culture! and national origins, who have contributed to making the U.S. unique
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