Goals

The History Educators Network of Indiana (HENI) seeks to:

• Promote the value and importance of history in Indiana schools

• Encourage excellence in the teaching of history in K-12 classrooms

• Provide a forum for the exchange of ideas about ways to improve history education

Strategies

HENI will employ the following strategies:

• Set world class standards

• Host curriculum workshops and summer institutes for teachers

• Promote development of standards-based curricular material

• Provide a clearinghouse for exemplary curriculum material and strategies as well as professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers

• Evaluate programming

• Establish connections and foster collaboration between college and university history faculty and K-12 teachers

• Promote efforts of K-12 teachers and their school corporations to find grants to support professional and curricular development for the improvement of history education

• Create and maintain a database of names and addresses of teachers, members and teaching resources as a means of maintaining professional activity and connections and to assist with the continuing activities of HENI

• Develop and carryout a fund-raising strategy to ensure financial stability that includes underwriting workshop costs

• Maintain an office--the HENI Center--with a professional staff, on-line (virtual) resources, library of printed, audio, and video material, telephone and broadband Internet connection, printing facilities, and secretarial support to implement the above-mentioned strategies