Course Information
Summer Academy
Week 1
Speakers
Barry Cannon from the Gleaners Coalition spoke about the history of local agriculture and activities.
More information about the Gleaners Coalition at www.gleanerscoalition.org.
Resources
Brief overview of eugenics, with mention of state fairs, from the Eugenics Archives at http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/.
Interactive dictionary at www.visuwords.com.
Voicethread.com is an online photo album, which allows the user to add sound to images.
Week 2
Place-Based Education Resources from Dr. Gregory A. Smith's Presentation
Lights, Camera . . . Leadership! guide to creating video projects.
ePals online K-12 learning community.
The Guilford Gazette from the Guildford School in Vermont.
The Community Works Journal outlines Place-Based Education projects across the country.
Case Studies from Barbara Leigh Smith's Presentation
Books Mentioned by Cheree Potts and Magda Costantino
Bellon, Richard, ed. The Chehalis People. 3rd ed. Oakville, WA: Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, 2001.
Bigelow, Bill and Bob Peterson, ed. Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools, 1998.
Wilkinson, Charles, and The American Indian Resources Institute. Indian Tribes as Sovereign Governments: A Sourcebook on Federal-Tribal History, Law, and Policy. 2nd ed. Oakland, CA: American Indian Lawyer Training Program, 2004.
More about the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.
More about the Native American Projects at The Evergreen Center for Educational Improvement.
An article about Native American Boarding Schools from the Organization of American Historians by Julie Davis, includes a bibliography of sources on the topic.
Nancy and David's discussion on Thursday
Quintard Taylor, professor at the University of Washington, studies history of African Americans in the American West from 1500 forward.
Friday morning discussion
Fort Blakley Tree Farms' online tour and curriculum guide.
David C. Korten's When Corporations Rule the World.
Stephanie Black's film about Jamaica Life and Debt.
The Boys of Baraka explore the Baraka School, which takes African American boys from Baltimore to the rural bush in Kenya.
Children who work in the red light district of Calcutta film their lives in Born into Brothels.
Questions that drive Place-Based Education (conceptual):
1) What happened here? (historical)
2) What's happening here? What's happening here now, and how does this relate to what has happened in the past? (experiential)
3) What should happen here? the well-being of the community/future-oriented (ethical)
Second set of questions (action):
1) What needs to be conserved? (cultural traditions/ways of being/environments)
2) What needs to be changed? (what isn't working anymore)
3) What needs to be restored? (culturally or ecologically)
4) What needs to be created here? (which was never here before)
5) What needs to be remembered? (story)
The Focus the Nation project to involve students in the solutions to Global Warming.
Robert K. Berkhofer's discussion of our understanding of Native Americans in The White Man's Indian.
The power of symbols and imagery is explored in Loretta Fowler's Shared Symbols, Contested Meanings.
Tentative Dates for Year 2
Regional Tour - Early October
Fall Workshop - November 2-3, Friday and Saturday morning, Morton, WA
Winter Workshop - Feburary 8-9, Friday and Saturday morning, WA State History Museum, Tacoma, WA
Spring Workshop - May 9-10, Friday and Saturday morning, Lake Quinault, WA
Summer Academy - Week 1 - June 23-27 - The Evergreen State College
Summer Academy - Week 2 - July 28 - August 1 - Near Cape Disappointment
