September 9, 2004

TEACHING 9-11
The Role of Media, Museums and Schools
In Constructioning National Memory
(Free and Open to the Public; Note that Certificates of Attendance will be given to educators who wish to pursue continuing education credit with their institutions)

Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Carmichael Auditorium
Washington, D.C.

1:00 p.m.
PANEL I: Media
• Moderator: James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly
• Ron Simon, Museum of Television & Radio
• Fiona Spruill, NYTimes.com
• Marvin Kalb, Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government

3:00 p.m.
PANEL II: Exhibitions and Memorials
Moderator: Peter M. Lukehart, National Gallery of Art
• James Gardner, National Museum of American History
• Amy Weinstein, New York Historical Society
• Tom Rogér, Families of September 11

4:30 p.m.
PANEL III: Best Practices
(4 Teachers selected for “Best Practices” Awards
• Keynote Comments: Eugene Hickok, Deputy Secretary of Education, US Department of Education

• Moderator: Alison Zimbalist, The New York Times Learning Network
• Robert Peterson, La Escuela Fratney Elementary School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Tracy Paxton, Rivermont Collegiate Middle School, Bettendorf, Iowa
• Masato Ogawa, Ontario High School, Ontario, Oregon
• David Mednicoff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Presentation of Awards
William Durden, President, Dickinson College

6:30 p.m.
Reception
Please feel free to explore two important exhibitions:
• Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
• Vote: The Machinery of Democracy