The Palmetto Program is a $1.6 million federal Teaching American History Grant awarded to Charleston county School District (CCSD). The grant will provide intensive and ongoing professional development, materials and resources, and support Charleston County social studies teachers. The grant will also provide funded annual opportunities for travel study over a five-year period for teachers in grades 4, 5, 8, and 11.
The program will include direct content instruction, progressing chronologically through United States History from the Colonial Era to the Cold War. In addition, the project will strategically deliver professional development on best practices for effective history instruction.
Program Goals:
1.) Increase teachers’ depth of content knowledge in U.S. History.
2.) Improve teachers’ instructional practices of U.S. History.
3.) Raise student achievement in U.S. History.