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Seeing students engage with the VIetnam War through oral histories from Veterans, imagery from the time and film. 

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Seeing students engage with the VIetnam War through oral histories from Veterans, imagery from the time and film. 

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Teachers engaged in direct learning from authors to provide more opportunities and skills for students to write about history and with primary sources in their classrooms.

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Providing Resources Speaker to Several BPS - for example Dr. Terrence Robert of the Little Rock Nine.  Working with Schools through a grant "Inspiring Civility"  - Community  Academy of Science and Health
Ongoing Partnership school - Tech Boston, Latin Academy, My Part of the Story Professional Development for BPS educators

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Many teachers taught our curriculum and deeply explored issues of justice with students. This included mock trials and civic education in classrooms. Critical thinking and developing civic motivations and anticipatory skills

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Various freedom trail sites/NPS coordinating to bring out the 9th grade

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MHS Teacher PD programs, including Teaching LGBTQ+ History and Monuments & Historical Memory

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MHS Teacher PD programs, including Teaching LGBTQ+ History and Monuments & Historical Memory

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Working with a group of BPS history, government, and civics teachers to pilot HBS case studies centered on the history of American democracy, and the case method pedagogy, in high schools. Students engaged with rigorous college level texts and were placed in the role of decision maker in a series of critical moments in our nation's history. Students discussed the case studies, answering a series of challenging questions that push students to develop and articulate effective arguments grounded in an accurate understanding of history. Teachers from Madison Park, Excel HS, TechBoston, EMK, New Mission, and BLS participated this year.

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We helped TBA students use a design process to brainstorm and ideate around two projects they were working on: upgrading a nearby elementary school's library, and helping raising awareness of Daily Table in Dorchester (10 min walk from their school)

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Starting a new format for connecting and partnering with BPS students and teachers - Thinking Through Art - a PD program where teachers become comfortable with the Gardner and learn VTS method. Then they bring students twice to the museum.
Seeing these students feel comfortable at the Gardner and watching them engage in meaningful dialogue with each other. Teachers were able to see new strengths in their students too!

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Collaboration between 826 Boston and EMK Institute. Students learned about speechwriting and the power of words and wrote speeches about issues they care about.

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Via TSI engaged teachers in close read of 18th Century petitions with the effort to broach the subject of Bias in History and the consideration of historical myth.

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Visual Thinking Straegies (VTS) Partner school, Hurley School

Worked with 8th grade teacher and students to design a Student Docent program. 8th grade students built and facilitated Art of Spanish Speaking World tour for Hurley 4th grade.  8th graders used VTS Facilitation skills for tour and researched their artwork

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Working with BINcA students to learn about local, state, and federal representative government, to explore examples of student-led civic action in Boston and write to our elected officials.

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Snowden French class discovering French colonial possessions all over the world through historical maps to raise questions about language and control.

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Pilotted K-2 in-gallery literacy program based on Native American Pacific Northwest folklore

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Prototyping 19/20th immigration focused program in the North End

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Observing Excel HS students participate in link learning with middle school students about coding  

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Observing Excel HS students participate in link learning with middle school students about coding  

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Leventhal Map Center.                                    Worked with the Muniz high school to integrate map research in senior projects on ways they would improve Boston. Students created a map with images and their projects. Worked with Snowden HS to use digitized maps showing redlining during 1930s during study of New Deal. Students created Thinglink maps with research.

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Leventhal Map Center.                                    Worked with the Muniz high school to integrate map research in senior projects on ways they would improve Boston. Students created a map with images and their projects. Worked with Snowden HS to use digitized maps showing redlining during 1930s during study of New Deal. Students created Thinglink maps with research.

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Amazing year!! Lots of prototyping, piloting and evaluations. Thanks to an amazing community of teachers and partners to help make these experiences happen for 1500+ BPS students.

Timilty 6-8 Spectacle Island history investigation
Josiah Quincy upper - 6-7 Mapping and navigation
EMK 9th Grade History Slam EVERYWHERE
O’Donnell 5 (x3) - Charlestown Navy yard / USSCM; Spectacle Island; Black Heritage Trail / MAAH
McKay 5th grade- BHT & MAAH; Peddocks Island
Adams School 5th grade CNY/USSCM; Spectacle Island
Mario Umana - grades 2-8 - Spectacle Island jr rangers and VTS
BTU 6-7 grade - Spectacle Island Mapping and topography
Lyndon School 6th grades - Spectacle Island

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Seeing BPS school middle and high school students present to legislators and community leaders about the community issues they've taken action on at the State House.

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Seeing BPS school middle and high school students present to legislators and community leaders about the community issues they've taken action on at the State House.

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Guest judging for BLA 8th grade civics capstone

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Guest judging for BLA 8th grade civics capstone

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We heard presentations from andgave feedback tostudents on Imagine  Boston 2030's  topic areas, including affordable housing, education, gun violence, and income inequality in Boston.

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Working with a BPS teacher to see how he linked iCivics games and resources with current events 

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Working with a BPS teacher to see how he linked iCivics games and resources with current events 

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Sat in on several classroom sessions to see what works best, what might need more explanation and how we can improve the experience for teachers and students - we even made a change immediately afterward!

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Kerri Anderson’s 5th grade class from the Kenny School. The most engaged, well prepared and fun class I had all year. Kerri noticed art work up from a different fifth grade class, inquired about it and enthusiastically asked to participate in the project next year.

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At the end the guided museum program, Who was John F Kennedy?, A child said, I want to come back with my family. This was filled by a chorus of "me too".

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Collaborative student programming and PD that connects multiple sites and stories. 

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Collaborative student programming and PD that connects multiple sites and stories. 

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Presentation @ BINcA about New England's history of cultural genocide v. Native peoples

Conversations w Natacha about bringing Upstander Academy to Boston in 2019

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Hosting a Model UN conference attended by many BPS students

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Hosting a Model UN conference attended by many BPS students

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100+ BPS students researched clean water and nuclear proliferation from the perspective of an assigned country, and spent the day presenting and debating their position

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Hosting BINcA seniors for their capstone projects

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Hosting BINcA seniors for their capstone projects

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We hosted three students who focused on housing, food access, and third spaces in Boston

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Partner schools for our VTS/BPS partnerships. Engaging students in looking closely at works of art, thinking critically and providing evidence, and making connections to broader themes and their own lives.

EMK Student Docent Program — students teaching students about art and history.

Teacher PD provided enrichment. More in-depth learning to come!

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Many BPS teachers led workshops about their practice for other educators at teacher professional development programs on various history/social studies content.