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Social Justice In The Language Classroom Series: Argentina, Graciela Báez
Social Justice In The Language Classroom Series: Argentina, Graciela Báez
Early College Folio
This lesson plan, crafted during the Bard Early College Fellowship, details a unit in which students build their oral comprehension, speaking, reading and writing skills in Spanish. Students expand their vocabulary, adopt language to discuss and analyze films, and polish their writing and thinking skills in Spanish while learning about a historical moment that shaped an important social justice movement.
The Insistence Of Inclusion: The Black Excellence Project, Cassandra St. Vil
The Insistence Of Inclusion: The Black Excellence Project, Cassandra St. Vil
Early College Folio
During the spring semester of 2020, COVID-19 did not stop this group of determined 9th graders at Bard Early College D.C. Together, they embarked on the Black Excellence Project (“BEP @ Bard”) with the partnership of Amateka College Prep. BEP @ Bard provided literacy-instruction while simultaneously teaching Black Excellence: the teaching of historical and contemporary exemplary Black figures who have impacted Washington, D.C. and raised awareness around topics like racism, social justice, and countering anti-Blackness. Throughout instruction, the students learned about multiple Black professionals from a variety of career pathways as they reflected on questions like, “what does Black Excellence …