Past Workshops

2025

• On the Spot: The Boston Massacre Through Maps (ARGO)

• Exhibition Preview for Educators: Terrains of Independence (ARGO)

• Mapping Johnny Tremain (ARGO)

2024

• 2024 NEH Summer Institute "Community and Resilience in Maritime New England" with the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education

• Taking It to the Streets: Using Atlascope and Urban Atlases in the Classroom

• The Basics of Teaching with Maps (in partnership with George Washington’s Mount Vernon)

2023

• Small Bites 2022-2023: An after-school series of gatherings for educators introducing our core programs

  • Native People & Settler Colonialism: A Story of Land and Maps

  • Map Learning for Elementary Students: What is a Map?

  • Mapping the American Revolution

• Visualizing the World: Maps as Stories, Teachers as Scholars

• Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Activism in Turn-of-the-20th-Century Boston

• 2023 Carolyn A. Lynch Summer Teacher Fellowship: Teaching Boston Community History

2022

• Small Bites 2021-2022: An after-school series of gatherings for educators interested in teaching about Boston through a geospatial and social justice lens

  • Learn to Make a Digital Map Mini-session

  • Environmental Justice in Boston

  • Educator Social and Map Giveaway

  • Environmental Justice and Activism Resource Sharing with the Tsongas Industrial History Center

• More or Less in Common: Teaching Environmental Justice and Activism in Massachusetts and Beyond

• Visualizing Change in Boston: Using Digital Commonwealth Collections to Tell Stories of Places and Activism

• 2022 Carolyn A. Lynch Summer Teacher Fellowship: Teaching Boston Community History

• Small Bites 2022-2023: An after-school series of gatherings for educators introducing our core programs

  • World Maps Over Time

2021

• 2021 Carolyn A. Lynch Summer Teacher Fellowship: Teaching Boston Community History

• Mapping a New World: Places of Conflict and Colonization in 17th Century New England, NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop

• Small Bites: An after-school series of gatherings for educators interested in teaching about Boston through a geospatial and social justice lens

  • Educator Social and Map Giveaway

  • Visualizing Change in Boston

  • Redlining Maps and Their Legacy

  • Critical Map Reading and Literacy

2020

• Introduction to Digital Mapping in the Classroom

• 2020 Carolyn A. Lynch Summer Teacher Fellowship: Teaching Boston Community History

2019

• Summer 2019 Carolyn A. Lynch Teacher Fellowship

• America Transformed: Teaching Westward Expansion Using Maps, Art and Primary Sources

• America Transformed: Teaching Westward Expansion Using Primary Sources

2018

• Unpacking the New Standards

• Maps as Primary Sources to Energize Math, Science, and other STEAM Curricula

• Teaching Immigration Past and Present

• America Transformed: Teaching Westward Expansion through Inquiry

• Visualizing the World: Maps as Stories

2017

• Population Education

• NEH Landmarks Workshop: Mapping a New World (2017)

• Mapping Meaning

2016

• Mapping Boston’s Role in the American Revolution

• Landscape of Revolution

• Power of Maps

2015

• Teaching Social Studies Using Maps as Primary Resources

• Visualizing the American Revolution

• Mapping Boston’s Role in the American Revolution

• Landscape of Revolution

• History in Motion: Developing Primary Source Sets

• Teacher’s Program for Global Studies

2014

• The World in Your Hand: A Buckminster Fuller Map Dome Workshop

• Learning With Maps

• Visualizing Immigration

• Teaching Math with Maps (2014)

2013

• Teaching Math with Maps (2013)

2010

• Lesley University 2010 Summer Institute

• Massachusetts Geographic Alliance 2010 Summer Institute