At the end of that first year, students came together at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Dorchester, an institution dedicated to civic learning and a critical partner for us. They heard from a panel of local humanists, including the current attorney general, Andrea Campbell, and, most importantly, displayed their learning — through documentaries, interviews, maps, artwork, research projects, and speeches they created — at a public, curated exhibition in the lobby of the Institute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIn the years that followed, Boston Collegiate, Boston International Newcomers Academy, Phillips Academy Andover, and the John D. O\u2019Bryant School for Math and Science joined us, and we challenged ourselves with new themes: <\/span>Climate Justice, Public Health\/Global Health, and Democracy Now<\/span><\/i>. We expanded our connections with local non-profits, hosted professional development and mid-year panels of experts on each theme, and experimented with different strategies for collaborating and sharing across our schools and classrooms. Melissa Ewing at Boston College High School partnered with a local immigration advocacy group to study Temporary Protected Status for Haitian refugees. Dr. Raviola from Partners in Health trained BINcA and Milton Academy students in mental health first aid.<\/span> Eben Bein of Our Climate trained our students to lobby Beacon Hill legislators to pass climate legislation. During our most recent cycle on <\/span>Democracy Now<\/span><\/i>, students worked with MassVote and New England United 4 Justice to support voter participation in the most recent general election, and asked questions of local lawyers and academics about the state of the country\u2019s democracy at a panel hosted in Boston\u2019s historic Old South Meeting House, an event co-sponsored <\/span>by Revolutionary Spaces and live-streamed by WGBH.<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nWith the additional strains on teachers’ energy and time as a result of the COVID pandemic, as well as uncertain funding conditions that intensified in an unpredictable political environment, each year created new challenges for us. And yet in conversations with you, we heard about the sense of renewal you felt when each theme created an opportunity to innovate your curriculum and instruction; students noted how each journey out of the classroom to connect with experts and peers from other schools stoked excitement and inspired learning. Education for all of us felt dynamic, engaged, and embodied.<\/span><\/p>\nWe are deeply saddened to have to say goodbye to what we created with you. As teachers, we know that there are situations beyond our control that sometimes limit the goals we have for our work. At the same time, we can\u2019t forget that this drive and spirit still exists for each and everyone of us. We pledge to remain vigilant for future opportunities to foreground collaborations across the public-private divide, the essential role of the humanities, and our commitment to train our students to be ethical leaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWe still remember our first, homegrown professional day on the theme of economic inequality, where 30 of us sat together across our different school communities to plot the year\u2019s arc, design curriculum, and plan collaborations to launch our first cycle. Though we were seasoned teachers leveraging years of classroom experience, most of us had never experienced the thrill of this kind of ground-level design work.<\/span> Then, year after year, you came back, committed to the Workshop\u2019s evolution, ready to give more time without compensation simply because you knew what we were doing mattered to the development of students. Dear teachers, you have moved us with your passion, your inspiration, and your hard work — when the work is already, always hard. You gave life and meaning to the Humanities Workshop over the course of a decade. Thank you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWith deep gratitude, <\/span>
<\/span>Lisa and Alisa<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_blog posts_number=”50″ include_categories=”25″ show_thumbnail=”off” show_content=”on” show_author=”off” show_date=”off” show_categories=”off” admin_label=”Project Post Feed” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_blog][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.1″][et_pb_sidebar orientation=”right” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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