The Clio Project: Thinking Like an Historian The project's high-
need southeast Wyoming districts serve a largely rural and
growing migrant population in a geographic area of more than
16,000 square miles, so one goal is to define a professional
development model that meets the needs of rural schools.
Activities will include two 4-week instructional modules and two
document-based question workshops during the school year; in the
summer, teachers will be involved in a 10-day field excursion
and a 1-week curriculum workshop, during which they will develop
lesson plans. Teachers can participate in a single year of the
program, then choose to continue for an additional year or two;
the cadre will include approximately 40 teachers each year, some
new and some continuing. As they learn to think like historians,
teachers will study decisions and actions of specific
people—government and military leaders, soldiers, tribal
leaders, businessmen and everyday citizens—whose choices changed
the outcome of history. Strategi