Category: Education
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Racial Trauma: Unchaining Ancestors’ Stories to Heal Cities
By Susana F. Molina in The Urban Activist on February 22, 2021 February is Afro-American History Month. It pays tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity. This year’s commemoration, eight months after the events in Minneapolis, has turned out in a different tone. The racial trauma of an unpayable moral debt lingers over…
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Kingswood Oxford Students Make Important Progress in Witness Stones Project
In the Kingswood Oxford News published on January 21, 2021. The Witness Stones Project is an ongoing one in the Kingswood Oxford School history department each year that engages the students in authentic, real-world learning. The project seeks to honor the humanity and contributions of the enslaved people who helped build the community we live…
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How to Bring the Witness Stones Project to Life
By Katie McCarthy on the Atlantic Black Box Project on January 17, 2021 This 2020-2021 academic year marks the third year that my students at Kingswood Oxford in West Hartford have participated in the Witness Stones Project and it’s been the most inspiring and meaningful work of my teaching career. It’s also been the most…
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Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut: Project-Based Learning on the Hilltop
By Kristina Miller in Salisbury School News on January 15, 2021 History Faculty Rhonan Mokriski ’90 and his students embarked on a project-based learning course this year entitled, “Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut.” The goal was to engage students as public historians in authentic tasks to discover and share the local contributions people of color have made to the building of…
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Salisbury School Students Chronicle the Lives of African Americans
A blog on the Atlantic Black Box Project, started on December 24, 2020. History teacher Rhonan Mokriski and his students at the Salisbury School have been pursuing a project-based learning course in public history focused on uncovering the lives of free and enslaved African American families in northwestern Connecticut. Continue reading.
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Statement on History and Social Studies Education in Connecticut
The Witness Stones Project is proud to join Connecticut historians, social studies professionals, and teachers in supporting the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies’ Statement on History and Social Studies Education in Connecticut. The Connecticut Council‘s mission is to advocate and build capacity for high-quality social studies by providing leadership, services, and support to educators.…
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Witness Stones and Teaching Teachers Hard History
By Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton. Published by The Atlantic Black Box Project on August 6, 2020. For all of the educators reading this post: Have you ever questioned the fact that you can teach in front of dozens of students every day and never be nervous, but when get…
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Witness Stones & Hard History
On August 3, 2020 Witness Stones Project Co-Chair and Connecticut Representative Patricia Wilson Pheanious and Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton took part in a Connecticut Association of Independent Schools Workshop on Teaching Hard History. We invite you to watch their address here: The Connecticut Association of Independent Schools is a voluntary…
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Searching for Slavery in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut
By Rhonan Mokriski on The Atlantic Black Box Project on August 1, 2020 I teach at an independent school in the sleepy Connecticut town of Salisbury (pop 3,598 in 2018). I have been living here for 24 years. My lens has been largely focused on world history – particularly China – so beyond the normal…
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“Look at the Whole Story”: CT Educators Rethink Lessons on Racism, Slavery
By Meghan Friedmann in the New Haven Register on July 31, 2020 A team of educators hopes to empower teachers to educate their students about racism and slavery in southern New England – and to do so correctly. A nationally-renowned scholar, two Connecticut teachers and a state representative, all of whom advocate for a reconfiguration…