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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

So in the fall of 2019 and the winter of 2020, I worked with a talented team of videographers and producers to fan out to schools across the country—in Indiana, California, Florida and Massachusetts—to capture short documentary videos of classroom teachers. It is some of the last pre-pandemic footage captured in American classrooms.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

My intent as an UGRR participant was to stretch my local history knowledge and to sharpen my historical-geographical thinking skills. In October 2020, while networking with Chris Bacon (former UGRR Director) and Mike Broccolo (former educational specialist), we developed a mini-service learning project.