NEH-funded Institutes, A Sense of Place, are designed for a national audience of full- or part-time K-12 educators who teach in public, charter, independent, and religiously affiliated schools, or as home schooling educators. Museum educators and other K-12 school system personnel (with content geared towards 6th - 12th grades)—such as, but not limited to, administrators, substitute teachers, and curriculum supervisors—are also eligible to participate. 

 

A Sense of Place programs support a series of one-week professional development workshops across the nation to enhance how K-12 grade(s) educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship.

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You are eligible to apply if you are a:

• United States citizen, including those teaching abroad at U.S. chartered institutions and schools operated by the federal government

• resident of U.S. jurisdictions

• foreign national who has been residing in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline

• U.S. citizens teaching abroad at U.S. chartered institutions  

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You are not eligible to apply if you:

• are a foreign national teaching abroad

• are related to the project director(s)

• are affiliated with the applicant institution (employees, currently enrolled students, etc.)

• have been taught or advised in an academic capacity by the project director(s)

• are delinquent in the repayment of federal debt (taxes, student loans, child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees)

• have been debarred or suspended by any federal department or agency

• have attended a previous NEH professional development project (Seminars, Landmarks, or Institutes) led by the project director(s)

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NEH does not require participants to have earned an advanced degree.

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In any given year, an individual may attend only one Institute or Landmarks workshop.

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To be considered for selection, applicants must submit a complete application, essay and curriculum vita (link below).