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December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 susannahremillard4244 Massachusetts, Uncategorized

The Students Speak

As promised, for this blog post, I will let my students speak. I teach sixth grade at a public charter middle school on Cape Cod. I have 84 students in my ELA classes. They cycle through in groups of 14 this year, sitting in beach chairs on the classroom floor as stiff breezes scatter leaves … Continue reading The Students Speak

November 19, 2020 susannahremillard4244 Uncategorized

Thanksgiving Takeaway

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of activity on the Thanksgiving front, as we head into the holidays and the first big break for students. From all of the webinars popping up in my inbox offering to help me teach about Pilgrims and Native Americans to the wild turkeys roaming serenely through my … Continue reading Thanksgiving Takeaway

October 12, 2020October 13, 2020 susannahremillard4244 Massachusetts, Uncategorized

Are You Listening?

This past week, I sent my students outside to listen. With a pandemic shaping the ways teachers work with students this year, I've redrawn the curriculum to include an opening unit on nature writing in order to maximize our outdoor time this fall. The act of being outside and engaging with the world using all … Continue reading Are You Listening?

September 19, 2020September 19, 2020 susannahremillard4244 Massachusetts

Re-Thinking Space

As the bobcat rumbled away last week, I admired the transformed hillside next to our school. It had been cleared of the lumpy hillocks and spotted spurge and other pricklier species. We had created a smooth blank canvas, a sandy slope now carved to accommodate the construction of eight cedar beds with wide and mulchy … Continue reading Re-Thinking Space

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Atlantic Black Box is a nonprofit educational consultancy and production company focused on promoting public history initiatives, increasing multicultural literacy, fostering global competence, promoting critical thinking, and supporting creative expression with the goal of building community better through enlightened conversation.

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The mission of Atlantic Black Box is to initiate and sustain open, engaging, and inclusive dialog about who we are—at the local, regional, national, and global levels—and about who we want to be going forward, informed by a fact-based approach to understanding our history and the many ways in which it connects to our present.

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