Our end of the year trip to Boston marked and celebrated the senior learners' growing autonomy and independence. We began the school year with off-campus apprenticeships to seek mentors and new and exciting learning opportunities. The apprentices developed skills related to their work and a burgeoning sense of responsibility to their mentors and education.
Read MoreWe learned a great deal from our workshop with Ava Locks and Elka Rifkin of Access Ambassadors on demystifying disabilities by building awareness, empathy, and action. This was an interactive workshop in which the kids learned that "disability" is not a bad word and ways to communicate respectfully and appropriately through scenario-based explorations of visible and non-apparent disabilities.
Read MoreWe are busy learning about musician, artist, and civil rights activist Max Roach for our presentation on Soul Food Night. The kids are learning that Max Roach took the drums to a whole new level as a solo instrument.
Read MoreOur residency at The Watermill Center with Philippe Cheng concluded with our in-process exhibition last week. Our living self-portaits inspired by Andy Warhol's experimental films were on display as was our abstract map of our connections to places in our extended family histories.
Read MoreThe Senior Learners saw Bay Street Theatre's production of The Crucible. In class, they learned about Henry Miller, the McCarthy hearings, and why Miller used the Salem Witch Trials as an allegory for what was politically happening during the 1950s.
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