HISD Innovation & Postsecondary Programming is excited to coordinate HISD's National History Day (NHD) competition. NHD gives students in grades K through 12 the opportunity to act as historians. HISD Social Studies teachers and students are encouraged to incorporate NHD components into their teaching. NHD expectations strongly align with HISD disciplinary practices. For example, primary document analysis is a critical component in NHD, Social Studies TEKS, IB, and AP Social Studies. Research expresses that NHD students “outperform their non-NHD peers on state standardized tests in multiple subjects…” (NHD Executive Summary).

Our HISD History Day competition will take place on February 23, 2019 at Hattie Mae. If your school would like to participate in or learn more about our HISD History Day competition, please get in touch with Suzanne Acord and visit nhd.org. Dr. Acord can guide you and your team through the very rewarding research and presentation expectations. Be sure to view our History Day fundamentals in our History Day folder.

Registration for our February 23rd event opens on January 11th, 2019. Please register using this link: https://tx-hisd.nhd.org/. Registration closes on February 14th, 2019 at 11:59 PM. Teachers must register first. Then, their students can register their projects. Each school is invited to register two projects per category.