Professional Development
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site is committed to meeting the demands for National Park Service-sponsored professional development (PD). Traditionally, we offer workshops or other ways to earn PD credits/hours. Programs in the past included a screening of the film 'Harriet' plus talkback with Tina Martin Wyatt, great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman, and the annual Civil Rights Educator Institute.
Workshops will be posted here as well as on the park calendar - for more information, please contact Brian Schwieger at 501-374-1957. Workshops will correlate to Arkansas's Social Studies Frameworks and/or the National Educational Technology Standards and have been approved by the Arkansas Department of Education.
Past PD's
2024 Civil Rights Educator Institute
Monday, June 24 - Friday, June 28, 2024
A civil rights conference that commemorated and examined the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education SCOTUS decision
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site hosted a Civil Rights Educator Institute (CREI) from Monday, June 24 through Friday, June 28, 2024. Partners for this professional development included:
- Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home
- Eisenhower Foundation
- Eisenhower Memorial Commission
- Humanities Kansas
- Jefferson National Parks Association
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
The 2024 CREI was held in conjunction with a civil rights conference commemorating the 70th anniversary of the
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision; the conference will include presentations by historians and civil rights leaders as well as personal stories from those who lived it.
