{"id":21873,"date":"2025-07-10T14:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=21873"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:09:31","slug":"insights-tips-and-results-from-a-teaching-with-primary-sources-funded-grant","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/event\/insights-tips-and-results-from-a-teaching-with-primary-sources-funded-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights, Tips and Results from a Teaching with Primary Sources Funded  Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Summary<\/h4>\n<p>In the winter 2023, Geographic Educators of Nebraska obtained funding from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Documents (TPS) grant to conduct a summer workshop and fall follow-up activities. The workshops took place in the summers of 2023 and 2024, The workshop focused on the \u201cHistorical Geography of the City\u201d which used the cultural landscape as a primary document. Presenters will explain the results of the workshop, lessons learned, how to apply for funding, and what we regard as some of the keys to a successful application.<\/p>\n<h4>Session Focus<\/h4>\n<p>All Grade Levels | Curriculum and Instruction | Cultural Landscape, Funding Opportunity, GIS<\/p>\n<h4>Conference Room<\/h4>\n<p>Iowa<\/p>\n<h4>Meet the Presenter<\/h4>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21874\" src=\"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HPayne-Photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21878 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Payne_Harris-229x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Payne_Harris-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Payne_Harris-782x1024.png 782w, https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Payne_Harris-768x1006.png 768w, https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Payne_Harris.png 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>Harris Payne<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>began his career at Omaha Public Schools, teaching geography to 9th graders at Nathan Hale Junior High School in 1979. He also taught at Omaha North High School and Burke High School. In 1990, he was one of the founding members of the Nebraska geography alliance, Geographic Educators of Nebraska (GEON). In 1990, he attended the National Geographic Summer Geography Institute and was on staff at the institute during the summers of 1991 and 1992. His Omaha North High School geography students competed in the American Express Geography Competition and placed 3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and 1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> three times. In 2005, he became the Supervisor of Social Studies for Omaha Public Schools. During his tenure as supervisor, Mr. Payne obtained funding for three Teaching American History Grants, which provided funding for over eighty teachers to obtain a master\u2019s in historical studies degree, revised the district assessment system from bubble tests to performance assessments, and created the Making Invisible Histories Visible program.\u00a0 He retired from OPS in 2012 for six days and began a second career as the Director of Social Studies for the Nebraska Department of Education. His primary responsibility with the department was developing and implementing the 2012 and 2019 Nebraska State Social Studies Standards.\u00a0 He retired from that position in 2020 and was elected president\/chair of Geographic Educators of Nebraska (GEON).\u00a0 In 2021, he became the Geography Education National Implementation Project (GENIP) chair. Mr. Payne has a bachelor\u2019s degree in secondary social studies education, a master\u2019s degree in geography, and a master\u2019s degree in educational leadership. He is currently a graduate student pursuing his doctorate. Over the course of his career, he has taught Human Geography, World Regional Geography, Geography of East Asia, Urban Geography, Climate and Waters, Landforms and Soils at Data College, Midland College, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He likes traveling the world with his wife, Christy, and spending time with his six grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary In the winter 2023, Geographic Educators of Nebraska obtained funding from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Documents (TPS) grant to conduct a summer workshop and fall follow-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21759,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[89,114],"tribe_events_cat":[107],"class_list":["post-21873","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-annual-conference","tag-saturday-morning-session","tribe_events_cat-conference-sessions","cat_conference-sessions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22685,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21873\/revisions\/22685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21873"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=21873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}