Category: Education
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Witness Stones Project Updating Curriculum to Link History with News
By Jesse Williams in Zip06.com on June 23, 2020 Responding to the recent civil unrest following the killing of George Floyd as well as the specific racial inequalities revealed by the coronavirus pandemic, The Witness Stones Project, Inc. (WSP) is updating its program to better tie current events to American’s history of racial oppression. WSP…
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Understanding the Twin Pandemics: Covid-19 and Racism in America
It has been a long three months in the United States. First, the early data of the deaths from Covid-19 in America reflected an unacceptable racial disparity. Then, the ongoing killing of unarmed African Americans by the police and others, culminated in the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, leaves us in pain. Now…
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Country School Students Tell the Stories of Slavery in Their Community
From The Country School, published April 2020. Eighth Graders at the School began participating in the Witness Stones Project in the fall of 2019, setting out to tell an untold story about a woman named Lettuce Bailey, who was enslaved in Madison, Connecticut, until she was freed in the late 18th century, first in 1791…
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Country School Students Take in Poetry as They Begin to Research Slavery in Madison
By Jesse Williams in Zip06.com on December 18, 2019 MADISON — As 7th- and 8th-grade students at The Country School (TCS) prepare to delve into the history of local slavery and the lives of enslaved people as part of The Witness Stones Project, the school hosted a speaker whose words and insights helped prepare…
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Dennis Culliton Receives Social Studies Special Projects Award
Guilford Public Schools News and Announcements on June 12, 2019 Dennis Culliton, social studies teacher at Adams Middle School, has received the Special Projects Award from the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies (CCSS) for his work in leading the development of the Witness Stones Project and its application in the classroom. The award recognizes…
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The Connecticut Role in Slavery Was Worse Than You Think
By Meghan Friedmann in New Haven Register on February 26, 2019. GUILFORD — For many, Harriet Beecher Stowe — the Connecticut-bred woman behind the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin —represents one of the country’s most famous abolitionists. But Dennis Culliton, the Guilford history teacher behind the Witness Stones project, wants to illuminate another, largely untold piece of Stowe’s history:…
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National Recognition for Witness Stones in Teaching Tolerance
Please read the feature article, “Bearing Witness” by Jenifer Frank, in the Spring 2019 issue of Teaching Tolerance: Hana started her school paper with a description of Guilford’s town green—and for good reason. The beautiful, centuries-old space is the hub of this Connecticut coastal community. Residents like Hana, who attends Adams Middle School in Guilford,…
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Witness Stones Holds First Summer Workshop
Last week, the Witness Stones Project conducted its first Teachers’ Workshop inviting educators from West Hartford, Middletown, and Guilford. At the workshop they learned, shared, and discover the project whose aim is to: Restore the History and Honor the Humanity and Contributions of the Enslaved Individuals Who Helped Build Our Communities. We spoke about Bristow,…