Lessons from Incarceration:
The Maurice Walk Memorial Workshops at Heart Mountain

The Maurice Walk Memorial Workshop

Please carefully read all parts of this application instructions page before you attempt to complete an application. Please study the schedule, which contains detailed information about the topic under study, project requirements, expectations of the participants, and the academic and institutional setting. Please be aware that there will be a good amount of readings to be completed before the workshop (these will be posted later).

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Application Information and Instructions

The Maurice Walk Memorial Workshop provides educators of students in grades 5-12 with the opportunity to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics and issues in American history and culture, while providing them with direct experiences in the interpretation and analysis of significant historical and cultural sites and the use of archival and other primary and secondary sources.

Before completing an application, please review all parts of the schedule and all aspects of the eligibility, selection criteria and application. Please carefully consider what is expected in terms of shared housing and attendance, reading and writing requirements, and general participation in the work of the project.

This workshop involves teachers in collaboration with core faculty and visiting scholars to study the best available scholarship on a specific landmark. The workshop, offered June 14-19, 2026, accommodates 30 teachers in a one-week session. Participants benefit by gaining a sense of the importance of historical and cultural places, by making connections between the workshop content and what they teach, and by developing individual teaching and/or research materials. In the Heart Mountain, Wyoming workshop, teachers will be encouraged to develop at least one lesson that could be used in their classes. This lesson or unit can be created in collaboration with other attendees. These lessons will be shared (subject to approval) on the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation’s website.

PLEASE NOTE: Unlike the National Endowment for the Humanities, an educator can participate in the Walk workshop and another NEH workshop.

Selection Criteria

A selection committee will read and evaluate all properly completed applications.

Special consideration is given to the likelihood that an applicant will benefit professionally and personally from the workshop experience. It is important, therefore, to address each of the following factors in the application essay:

1. your professional background;
2. your interest in the subject of the workshop;
3. your special perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to the workshop; and
4. how the experience would enhance your teaching or school service and be useful in your classroom or teaching environment.

***Selection committees are charged to consider applicants who have not participated in a previous workshop at Heart Mountain. Additionally, preference is given to applicants who would significantly contribute to the diversity of the workshop. 

Three workshop spaces must be reserved for teachers who are new to the profession (those who have been teaching for five years or less).

After reading the Application instructions, click the “ACCESS ONLINE APPLICATION HERE” button at the bottom of this page.

Stipend, Tenure, and Conditions of Award

Teachers selected to participate will receive a $2,000 stipend to help defray transportation, meals, and lodging costs at the end of the workshop session. Stipends are taxable. Maurice Walk Memorial workshop participants are required to attend all scheduled meetings and to engage fully and civilly as professionals. Participants who do not complete the full tenure of the project will receive a reduced stipend. At the end of the workshop, participants will be required to complete a workshop evaluation.

Project applicants who accept an offer to participate are expected to remain during the entire period of the program and to participate in its work on a full-time basis. If a participant is obliged through special circumstances to depart before the end of the program, it shall be the recipient institution’s responsibility to see that only a pro rata share of the stipend is received or that the appropriate pro rata share of the stipend is returned if the participant has already received the full stipend.

Important note about the environment: Please also note that the workshop organizers would like applicants to be aware that in order to fully experience the environment, there is some amount of walking on site, and the weather will be hot and dry. 

During and at the end of the workshop, participants will be asked to provide an assessment of their workshop experience, especially in terms of its value to their personal and professional development. These confidential online evaluations will become a part of the project’s grant file. Completion of the evaluation is a requirement of the stipend.

Workshop Dates

Sunday, June 14 to Friday, June 19, 2026

Online Application

The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation educator workshop has been made possible in part by a major grant from the Walk Family Foundation.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the Walk Family Foundation.