LEWISTON — The Americans Who Tell the Truth organization, which is built around the series of portraits by Maine artist Robert Shetterly, will offer its third professional development workshop for Maine teachers March 14.

The workshop, titled Inspiring Citizenship and Student Performance, will be held at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. Its Arts and Humanities program is sponsoring it.

The workshop is free and open to all area high school and middle school teachers interested in spending an afternoon learning how to connect students with AWTT’s meaningful materials that engage students and address standards. The event will begin at 3:30 p.m. and end at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be provided. Contact hours are available and all attendees will receive a certificate of participation.

The workshop and a gallery talk for USM LAC students earlier in the day will be run by AWTT artist Robert Shetterly and Connie Carter, the executive director of Operation Breaking Stereotypes.

Other presenters will include Karen MacDonald, a language arts teacher from the King Middle School in Portland, who for years has been using the AWTT portraits in her classrooms, and Natasha Mayers, the Maine artist and educator whose portrait is included in the AWTT series.

The workshop is supported by a generous gift from the Maine Community Foundation’s Broad Reach Fund, which for two years has funded AWTT’s efforts to bring its programs to a broader public of engaged citizens, progressive educators, and students interested in playing more active roles in the direction and future their communities.

For more information about AWTT, contact Robert Shetterly at 326-8459 or [email protected]