The Underground Railroad Teaching Summit (URTS) is a seminar and curricular development program for primary to 12th grade teachers designed to enhance positive societal change while teaching and promoting the ideal of freedom through lessons learned from the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad is significant in our countrys history as it was an attempt to provide a positive solution to the atrocity of slavery. It is a triumph of the enslaved persons themselves, and those who assisted them, the abolitionists. The URTS provides an intensive examination of the Underground Railroad movement as it impacts and influences American history and culture to the present day. Teachers who have participated in the URTS were required to develop teaching materials for their own classrooms. Their work has been collected and is available on this website. Our goal is to provide other educators with practical lesson plans, class resource materials, and bibliographies of children/adolescent literature for use in primary to 12 grade classrooms.
The following teachers attended the 2003 URTS: Amy Buerger, Amy Hurst, Barbara Walker, Beth Fecher, Bonita Pack, Brenda K. Fauber, Dana Childers, Esther Kater, Jennifer Leyendecker, Jennifer Mariani, Jenny Aylor, Kellie Stamm, Laura Pugh, Lisa Willoughby, Mark E. Brown, Renee Hengehold, Sharon Williams, Stephanie Sparks, Candace Heinz, Jane Fisher, Linda Ross, Nicole Alwell.
For more information, contact Dr. Denise Dallmer at dallmerd@nku.edu
The URTS is made possible through a congressional grant awarded to the Institute for Freedom Studies (IFS) at Northern Kentucky University. For more information on IFS, see IFS website.
