Jack Miller (Front Row, Center) with the participants and faculty of the 2010 Summer Academy
The program brought together high school teachers from a number of subjects for the one-week series of lectures, workshops and seminars designed to foster effective teaching of the American founding. It was modeled after the successful faculty development summer institutes for college professors that the Jack Miller Center conducts in association with leading universities and colleges. The Summer Teachers’ Academy on the American Founding was a program of the Jack Miller Center’s Chicago Initiative, a collaborative effort among university faculty, foundation experts, and private donors in the greater Chicago area to advance the education students need to be become engaged and thoughtful citizens.
The theme of this year’s Summer Academy was Liberty & Constitutionalism: Five Founding Freedoms. The conversation will focused on “The Conditions of Freedom,” “Freedom of Speech,” “Liberty, Property, & the Pursuit of Happiness,” “Freedom from Fear,” and “Freedom of Conscience.” At the Summer Academy, teachers had the opportunity to work closely with nationally recognized scholars on the American Founding. Included in this group of prestigious academic leaders were: Ralph Lerner (University of Chicago); Peter Onuf (University of Virginia); Michael Zuckert (University of Notre Dame); Jessica Choppin Roney (Ohio University); and Mary Jane Farrelly (Brandeis University).
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