What We Did:
- One Class - One Mural:
The Underground Railroad
Dolgeville, NY
- Ramp Activities
- surveyed student internet access & computer skills
- Art & History discussion issues
- OQI Activity
- New Deal Art Readings
- Research Skill Development
- The "Dry Run"
- Dolgeville, NY Field Trip
- Expanded the Learning Community
- Living SchoolBook Lab
- U.S. Postal Service
- Dolgeville Community members
- Rome Free Academy Faculty and Students
- Developed Dolgeville Website
- Developed a Dialogue Page
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What We Learned:
- Students, colleagues, and community members can be excellent resources
- New Deal Art can:
- be an effective Window to the Past
- provide opportunities for interdisciplinary investigations
- foster unique collaborations
- Institutional barriers CAN be circumvented.
- Teachers and students CAN learn "like this."
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