Category: Education
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Guilford Superintendent Discusses Witness Stones Project
From Connecticut Public Radio on October 19, 2021 Guilford High School English Chair George Cooksey and Superintendent Paul Freeman explain that while critical race theory is not itself taught in the K-12 environment in Guilford, “dimension” and diversity of source material is still a priority. Listen to the broadcast here.
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Salisbury School Students Celebrate James Mars Day
Students at the Salisbury School brought the community together on May 1, 2021, to share their research and reflections on James Mars. Their work was part of a project-based learning course entitled, “Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut,” taught by History Faculty Rhonan Mokriski. The students documented the day with a new website and film.…
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Curriculum Design and Memorials with Witness Stones
From the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective on March 22, 2021 The Witness Stones Project began in 2017 in Guilford, Connecticut with the placement of three small plaques commemorating the lives of Moses, Candace, and Phillis. The project was inspired by the Stolpersteine project, which works to place small stones inscribed with the names and…
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Equity and Social Justice in Guilford
Guilford Superintendent of Schools Paul Freeman gave a talk on Equity and Social Justice in Guilford Public Schools at the Guilford Free Library on March 11, 2021. Freeman discussed recent efforts focused on the Board of Education’s adopted initiative to ”further develop a culture, and instructional practices, that foster equity and social justice in our…
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Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut
Students in Rhonan Mokriski’s “Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut” class at the Salisbury School are becoming public historians.
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The Library and Searching for Slavery
By James King, Library Director at Salisbury School, published by the Atlantic Black Box Project on March 5, 2021 James Mars didn’t complain of “many things,” but one thing troubled him his entire life: the lack of “opportunity to go to school as much as I should, for all the books I ever had in…
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Grace and Hope Teachers’ Talk
What messages does our society send to students at different ends of the socio-economic spectrum? What joys and challenges do teachers face as they try to meet the complex needs of today’s students? This panel discussion, hosted by Christ Church Greenwich, includes Kelly Bridges, a middle school history teacher at Sacred Heart Greenwich who shares…
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Talking About Preservation: Finding Slavery in Northwest Connecticut
Preservation Connecticut hosted Salisbury School history teacher Rhonan Mokriski and WSP’s Dennis Culliton to discuss a project-based learning course in public history focused on uncovering the lives of free and enslaved African American families in Northwest Connecticut. We invite you to watch here.
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Witness Stones West Hartford Offering Opportunity for Participation in Community History Project
By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.Com on February 22, 2021. Witness Stones West Hartford project directors Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine have worked with students and others in the community to share the previously untold history of some individuals who were once enslaved by residents of the West Division (now West Hartford), and a series of…
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How the Aftermath of the Civil War Helps Us Understand Trumpism
David W. Blight, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian and Yale Professor, spoke about How the Aftermath of the Civil War Helps Us Understand Trumpism on February 11, 2021. No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America’s collective memory as the Civil War. In the war’s aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off…