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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

. * * * My most recent connection with a cultural center occurred over a year ago when BSC social studies teacher candidates worked with the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center (UGRR) during an informal service-learning project. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement.

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Creating Impact and Art Through Partnerships

Digital Promise

Civic engagement is at the foundation of the ExCITe Center’s work, and Kim is constantly brokering partnerships with individual schools, teachers, and community groups; the EdClusters work is a natural extension. YoungMoo Kim Director, ExCITe Center at Drexel University.