The staff of The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State recently presented\u00a0at the National Association of Social Studies Teachers\u2019 annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The presentation, \u201cTransforming Classrooms Through Experiences in the Mississippi Delta,\u201d highlighted The Delta Center\u2019s National Endowment for the Humanities workshop \u201cThe Most Southern Place on Earth, the Music, Culture and History of the Mississippi Delta.\u201d<\/p>\n
The conference was attended by social studies teachers from across the country. The presentation was organized and planned by two former \u201cMost Southern\u201d workshop participants Heidi Imhof and Kelly Scallion, both\u00a0high school history teachers from Fairbanks, Alaska. The duo\u00a0participated in the 2010 workshop.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe wanted this presentation to serve as a way to repay The Delta Center for all that was shared with us and to document how that information continues to be shared with our students and communities all across the United States,\u201d said Imhof.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe cannot begin to tell you how much the Delta means to us,\u201d added Scallion. \u201cThis was the least we could do to show our appreciation for opening a new chapter in each of our lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Imhof and Scallion served as moderators for the presentation. In addition to an overview of the workshop provided by TDC\u00a0staff, the presentation featured 10 additional\u00a0former workshop participants from Buffalo, New York, Phoenix, Arizona, Columbus, Ohio, Tennessee, as well as two Mississippi\u00a0teachers from Jackson and Columbus. These presenters discussed Delta cultural heritage educational topics used in their classrooms, including Emmett Till, Freedom Summer and blues music.<\/span><\/p>\n Presentation attendees were treated to Delta Blues music selections, as well as tastes of hot tamales and koolickles, which are celebrated Delta food delicacies. The moderators also gave special thanks to members of TDC\u00a0staff who facilitated the 2010 workshop, including Dr. Luther Brown, Dr. Henry Outlaw, Lee Aylward and Heather Miller.<\/span><\/p>\n TDC is preparing to host its seventh year of the workshop in the summer of 2016. Applications are currently being accepted for the 2016 workshop. For more information, visit http:\/\/deltacenterdsu.com\/mostsouthern\/<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The mission of The Delta Center is to promote greater understanding of Mississippi Delta culture and history and its significance to the world through education, partnerships and community engagement. The center\u00a0serves as the management entity of the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area and is the home of the National Endowment for the Humanities \u201cMost Southern Place on Earth\u201d workshop and the International Delta Blues Project. For more information, visit https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/academics\/delta-center-for-culture-and-learning\/<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The staff of The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State recently presented\u00a0at the National Association of Social Studies Teachers\u2019 annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The presentation,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":68532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[412],"class_list":["post-68530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delta-center","tag-delta-center-for-culture-and-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68538,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68530\/revisions\/68538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}