CHS Staff Receive EAC Grant to Enhance Summer Professional Development and Collaboration

High school librarian Ben Wightman and English Teacher Wendy Everard attended a professional development opportunity recently at the Oneida Community Mansion House where they learned about how to incorporate the study of primary sources into our curricula, lessons, and library instruction. 

Both are collaborating on the Cazenovia Abolition unit that Everard explores with the AP Language class, and they received an EAC grant to work on the unit . The visit to the Mansion House was part of this summer grant project. 

"It was very informative and included a tour of the mansion with an accompanying lecture on its history, talks by Madison County historian Matt Urtz, Camden teacher Jessica Harney, and Ryan Perry, manager of the New York Heritage website."  said Everard.