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THE APPALACHIAN TEACHERS' NETWORK

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How does a teacher incorporate Appalachian or cultural studies into his or her classroom? How does any educator, whatever grade or discipline, encourage students to have pride in their culture, heritage, and home? Such questions the Appalachian Teachers' Network (ATN) strives to answer. As teachers from all levels, K-college, and all disciplines, we believe that students who understand and respect their own heritage will be better people because they will learn to respect themselves, other individuals, and the places they call home. We invite you to join our dialogue.

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 Sessions include:

• Community Environmental Health Issues in the Classroom: The Case of Surface Mining

• Tracking our Contemporary Appalachian Culture back to Home and Hearth in Scotland

• La Riviere Historic Preservation Project: Preserving the Past to Look to the Future

• The Appalachia-Ulster Teaching Project

• Grayson-Galax Traditional Dancers

• Diggin' for Gold: Floyd County High School Oral History Project

• Floyd's One Room Schools: Education's Treasured Resources

Teachers:

Affordable Recertification points awarded for attendance!

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STITCHES

One way to participate is to write for the ATN annual newsletter, STITCHES.

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   Previous conferences: 

Appalachian Teachers’ Network

Seventeenth Annual Conference

“A Celebration of the Handbook”

Featuring Contributors to  

A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region
 

A Handbook to Appalachia is a collection of thirteen essays by notable scholars and was designed in response to the question,

 “What one book can I read to learn about Appalachia?”

The 2006 ATN Conference Featured

         A panel of Handbook authors, sharing the latest word on these chapters:
 

Economy—Dr. Thomas Shannon, Radford University;

Folklife—Dr. Deborah Thompson, University of Kentucky;

Literature—Dr. Danny Miller, Northern Kentucky University;

Politics of Change—Dr. Stephen Fisher, Emory and Henry College

• Feedback from teachers using the Handbook in college and high school classrooms
• A review of Appalachian Studies resources and outreach at Radford University
• An optional afternoon tour of the Farm at Selu
• Appalachian bookseller George Brosi with a special collection of children’s books!

 Special Music for Lunch by Bill Adams and Ricky Cox

Saturday, November 4, 2006

8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Heth Hall, Radford University Campus

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