From Alabama to New York: How the Great Migration Shaped the Harlem Renaissance

Thursday, July 18:  Dr. Gregory Samuels

EJI Site visit

Session Focus: Exploring the praxis of Place-Based Education and its potential to create practical learning opportunities on all historical content related to the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance

Session objectives and Goals: reflect and share thoughts on museums and memorials in small and large group discussions, identify and evaluate the benefits of place-based education and the potential to enhance their student’s learning experiences, evaluate and align various interactive learning strategies to a place-based education to enhance teaching and learning experiences, create an outline of a multi-day lesson or unit plan that allows for the use of resources aligned with a high impact place-based education.

• 1:00pm Introduction, Debrief Activity, self-reflection, and think-pair-share
  • Place-Based Education Benefits, challenges, and potential for teaching & Learning

-session Breaks throughout-

• Exploratory ideas for site-based, historical, and story-telling lessons and unit development and/or final project ideas
  • Short Videos, Library of Congress Resources, and other media outlets for final projects 
• Breakout small group or independent work session for Lessons and Unit Development and/or final project ideas
• Reconvene for discussion of today’s experiences and gathered practices and concepts
• 4:00pm Whole group share of projected ideas of final product at the conclusion of Grant.

Questions for participants to consider while reading the article below: What is place-based education? What are its benefits and challenges? How can it impact teaching and learning in educational spaces and especially our classrooms? Do you think the Legacy museum & memorial has potential to serve students and other educators in a way that maximizes place-based education? How might they consider this a pedagogy of use for their final product at the conclusion of the grant?