The Race and Segregation in the Chicagoland Built Environment institute will offer cohorts of educators the opportunity to explore research knowledge and tools to facilitate learners' engagement with the history of segregation that are structured around specific examples of the built environment in Chicago and the surrounding area.

Faculty facilitators will present their research on racism in public space, housing, and schooling in the Chicagoland area, and will introduce online and digital tools and source material that participants can use to build their own lessons.

The professional development institute was developed in partnership by:
- Lake Forest College's Humanities 2020, funded by The Mellon Foundation
- The Lake Forest College Department of Education
- The Society of Architectural Historians
- The Chicago History Museum
- A cohort of award-winning Middle School and High School History teachers

Institute Timeline:
The institute begins, September 17, 2022, with an in-person Opening Event at the Chicago History Museum and will continue with monthly remote engagements with cohorts of peers during the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters. The institute will close with an additional in-person culminating event.

September, 17, 2022: Institute (daylong) Opening Event at the Chicago History Museum
- Focused tour of environmental racism in Chicago
- Keynote address by Professor L. Charles Davis, Associate Professor of Architectural History and Criticism at
  the University at Buffalo
- Introduction to Lake Forest College faculty and research

Fall 2022: Research and engagement in the issues
- Monthly cohort meetings, supported by Lake Forest College faculty, for deep dives into the digital resources and source materials introduced during the Opening Event
- Cohorts work collaboratively and individually to adapt resources to their contexts through curriculum and lessons developments

Winter Break: No engagements from Thanksgiving 2022 through January 1, 2023

Spring 2023: Implementation
- Cohorts continue to meet to develop lessons, curriculum, and resources for classroom engagement and report
  back on classroom implementation

June 2023: Closing event
- Debriefing, cohorts report on process and outcomes, and sharing of developed resources

Each cohort will consist of five to ten participants and will meet once a month for a 90-minute session either on a Wednesday from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. or Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
 
Numbers are limited and the strength of applications will be scored by a team of university professors, architectural specialists, and public school teachers.

Application deadline: July 31, 2022
Notification acceptance sent: August 5, 2022