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Articles & Speeches


Real Students, Real Research, Real Results, Marcella Sherfy, 57th Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, May 7, 2004, Olympia, Washington.

  A Music of Our Own: What Teachers Can Learn from Philip Aaberg, Michael L. Umphrey, Heritage Education, March 2004.

Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass: Hearing the Different Drum, Michael L. Umphrey  (Featured Author presentation, Montana Education Association/Montana Federation of Teachers annual conference), October 2003, Billings, Montana.

The Stories that Really Matter, Michael L. Umphrey, State of the Arts, September 2003.

What We Once Were, and What We Could Be, Ashley Ball, Edutopia: The George Lucas Educational Foundation (includes articles, slide shows, sound recordings, rubrics, and pdf documents)

Students Assume Critical Role as Community Historians, Elaina Loveland, Rural Roots, The Rural School and Community Trust, August 2003 (PDF)

The Responsibility to Think, Michael L. Umphrey, Youth Heritage Festival, Helena, Montana, April 1, 2003.

Showing Us the Road Home, Superintendent of Public Instruction Linda McCulloch, Youth Heritage Festival, April 1, 2003.

Making It, Michael L. Umphrey, The Provincial Mind, May 31, 2003

Keynote Presentation at National Rural Education Association Annual Conference; Portland, Oregon. Dorothea Susag, Annette St. Onge, Trevor Steinbach, Michael Umphrey; October 16, 2002.

Being Part of Something That Matters, Michael Umphrey (Folklife Center News, Library of Congress, Autumn 2002)

A New Story for Schooling, Michael Umphrey (Saul O. Sidore Distinguished Lecture, University of New Hampshire)

High Schools are the Key to our Future by Michael Umphrey, Headwaters News, May 2, 2002.

Every Student Can Contribute, talk by Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Linda McCulloch, Montana Heritage Project Student Conference, April 9, 2002.

New Life for an Old War by Maya Muir (Northwest Education, Northwest Regional Educational Lab; Volume 7, Number 3, Spring 2002).

Teaching and A Sense of Place, Michael Umphrey (CARTS newsletter, Spring 2002).

Winds of Change by Joyce Riha Linik (Northwest Education, Northwest Regional Educational Lab; Volume 7, Number 3, Spring 2002).

A Sense of Time: Education as the Infinite Game, by Michael Umphrey (The Next Generation)

Sowing Clover: Schools, Community, and Social Capital, Michael Umphrey's remarks at Wyoming Heritage Workshop

Family: The Connective Tissue of the American West, talk by Elliott West, Professor of History, University of Arkansas, Montana Heritage Project 1998 Summer Institute, Mother Lode Theater, Butte

Preserving the Good in Montana, Governor Judy Martz's remarks at the 2001 Student Conference

Listening to History, Governor Marc Racicot's remarks at the 2000 Student Conference

Big Sky Legacy, Northwest Education Magazine, Winter 2000, Volume 6 Number 2, Northwest Region Educational Lab.

Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days, , Michael Umphrey, Holistic Education Review Summer 1997, Volume 10.

Montana Heritage Project Workshop,  Alan Jabbour, (Folklife Center News)

The Next Generation: Saying "Yes" to Montana, Michael Umphrey (Montana Magazine;)

 

TeacherLore: Writing by Teachers


Things Are Looking Up, by Christa Umphrey (Ronan High School)

Expectations—Cause or Effect? Dorothea Susag (Simms High School)

Changing Lives, Changing the World, Rose Goyen (Libby High School)

The World Outside the Window, Annemarie Kanenwisher (Corvallis High School)

Creating Student Connections to Community, Tim Schaff (Roundup High School)

Journeying to America, Phil Leonardi (Corvallis High School)

Trips and Turns in Place, Dorothea Susag (Simms High School)

Yes, Students, People Make the Place, Darlene Beck (Broadwater High School)

A Mentored Miracle, Dorothea Susag (Simms High School)

A Thematic Approach to Historical Fiction, Sarah Jordahl Reeve (St. Ignatius Middle School)

Discovering the First and Last Best Place: A Tale from the Montana Heritage Project, Marta Brooks (Montana English Journal)

Heritage Education in the Bitterroot Valley, Phil Leonardi (Corvallis High School)

Stories on the Wall: A Historical Mural in St. Ignatius, Jeri Malatare (St. Ignatius High School)

Field Research at the Calf Creek Elk Refuge, Art Rzaza (Corvallis High School)

Using the National Register of Historic Places nomination process as a teaching frame, Renee Rasmussen (Chester High School)


Michael L. Umphrey: Essays and Poems

Michael Umphrey's Columns from
State of the Arts

  • The Stories that Really Matter
  • The Responsibility to Think
  • From Standards to Projects: the future of schooling
  • It's About Time: the Expedition to 1910
  • Teaching in Troubled Times
  • Leading by Inviting
  • Teaching Comes Home
  • WorldMaking: Teachers as Storytellers
  • Toward a Higher Literacy
  • Students Join Community of Scholars
  • Among Friends: An Educational Renaissance
  • Teaching a Sense of Time
  • New Conferences for 1999
  • Finding the Right Poetry
  • Heritage Teachers Aim High
  • Teaching and the Craft of Place
  • Looking Up From our Problems
  • Memory and Storytelling in the Digital Age
  • Test Scores and Community-Centered Education
  • Library of Congress Explores New Frontiers with Heritage Project
  • A Pedagogy of Place: A Hunger for the Real
  • A Living Legacy: Heritage Project Connects the Generations
  • Teachers as Storytellers of the Tribe: Caring for the Narrative Environment
  • A Living Education: Putting Learning to Work
  • Kitchen Table to Classroom Podium: Bridging the Gap
  • Gathering the Legacy: Looking at the Present through the Lense of the Past
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