{"id":3847,"date":"2015-07-10T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2015-07-10T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:09:12","slug":"local-teacher-studies-with-distinguished-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3847","title":{"rendered":"Local Teacher Studies With Distinguished Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pedro Cano teaches U.S. history and world history at Los Fresnos High School.<\/p><\/div>\n

A Los Fresnos teacher was selected to attend \u201cAmerican Presidents and the Nation, 1970\u20132000,\u201d a professional development institute sponsored by Humanities Texas, the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) and the LBJ Presidential Library.<\/p>\n

Pedro Cano, who teaches U.S. history and world history at Los Fresnos High School, traveled to Austin to attend the program, which took place from June 7\u201310.
\n\u201cAmerican Presidents and the Nation, 1970\u20132000\u201d drew fifty-five Texas teachers to the LBJ Presidential Library for three and a half days of dynamic presentations and small-group seminars, studying U.S. history through the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

H. W. Brands, the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at The University of Texas at Austin and author of Reagan: The Life, delivered the institute\u2019s keynote presentation on Ronald Reagan\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n

Other faculty included James T. Patterson of Brown University; Janet Davis, Donna Kornhaber, Mark A. Lawrence and Jeremi Suri, all of The University of Texas at Austin; Michael Brandl of The Ohio State University; Albert S. Broussard of Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Engel of Southern Methodist University; Martin Melosi of the University of Houston; Steve Murdock of Rice University; Luke A. Nichter of Texas A&M University; Chase Untermeyer, former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar, and Mark Updegrove of the LBJ Presidential Library.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will use the content that I learned along with the primary sources to create more engaging lessons for my students,\u201d said Cano.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumanities Texas was pleased to cosponsor \u2018American Presidents and the Nation, 1970\u20132000,\u2019\u201d said Executive Director Michael L. Gillette. \u201cGiving talented teachers the opportunity to interact with their peers and leading scholars will enable them to engage students with exciting new perspectives on our nation\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Presidents and the Nation, 1970\u20132000\u201d was made possible with support from the State of Texas and the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n

Humanities Texas is the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its mission is to advance education through programs that improve the quality of classroom teaching, support libraries and museums and create opportunities for lifelong learning for all Texans.<\/p>\n

For more information about Humanities Texas, visit www.humanitiestexas.org<\/a>. For information about The University of Texas at Austin, visit www.utexas.edu<\/a>. For more information about the LBJ Presidential Library, visit www.lbjlibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmerican Presidents and the Nation, 1970\u20132000\u201d drew fifty-five Texas teachers to the LBJ Presidential Library for three and a half days of dynamic presentations and small-group seminars.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Los Fresnos teacher was selected to attend \u201cAmerican Presidents and the Nation, 1970\u20132000,\u201d a professional development institute sponsored by Humanities Texas, the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) and the LBJ Presidential Library. Pedro Cano, who teaches U.S. history and world history at Los Fresnos High School, traveled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3850,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}