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Mississippi teachers of ninth-grade social studies participated in a one-day workshop conducted by Brenda Smith, social studies coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Education. The workshop prepared the teachers for a new required course, Mississippi Studies. Thanks to support from the Phil Hardin Foundation, participants received a copy of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, the five-volume anthology Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, and a set of blues tapes from Malaco Records.
Over 80 teachers came to a two-day Mississippi Studies Teacher Seminar, which further explored the issues and methods of teaching about Mississippi. Cosponsored by the Mississippi Teacher Center, the program examined topics from Mississippi history to Southern literature, folk art, and the blues. University faculty in Southern Studies, English, history, journalism, music, and art led the seminar.
The House of Blues Foundation Teacher Institute brought 40 teachers from California, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana to the Center for a week-long program exploring Southern culture, the blues, civil rights, and race relations. Also, a class on Southern food was taught by Nathalie Dupree, a writer and the host of a nationally syndicated television program on Southern cooking. The International House of Blues Foundation, which has a long-standing relationship with the Center, provided $50,000 for the institute. Additional funds came from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the CREATE Foundation Inc. of Tupelo, Delta and Pine Land, Lynn Crosby Gammill, Dorothy H. Crosby, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Cohen, the Mississippi Arts Commission, and local arts councils.
For more information on teacher
workshops, contact Marcie C. Ferris at 601-232-5134.
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