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Boston Public School students from Mr. Lamothe's, Ms. Troxell's and other
teacher's classes at Excel, Odyssey, and Monument High Schools at South
Boston and Ms. Syms classes at Boston Community Learning Academy held
a conference at Umass Boston on March 18, 2003 from 7:30 am until 2:00pm.
The conference, "Issues of Homelessness - Artists Act Against Homelessness
- Teachers and Students Explore Causes and Solutions" will provide students
with a variety of experiences, speakers, group activities, and discussion
focused around issues of homelessness.
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Conversation, critical thinking, and collaborations will be fostered
as a result of addressing one of our most serious social and political
issues. Students will use visual arts and technology as a means to express
their ideas and communicate with others around this topic. This conference
is part of a curriculum being developed by teachers in Massachusetts,
New York, and Ohio in conjunction with the Center for Policy at the McCormack
Institute at Umass.
This is alos part of the Give US Your Poor: Homelessness and the U. S.
project designed to create public awareness of this issue and to stimulate
solutions through the idea of community.
It is being funded in part through an IMPACT II Service Learning and
Technology Grant. Video, photography, and art work will be on public display
as a result of this project. The event will also be filmed by students
and made into movies on homelessness.
Conversation, critical thinking, and collaborations will be fostered
as a result of addressing one of our most serious social and political
issues. Students will use visual arts and technology as a means to express
their ideas and communicate with others around this topic. This conference
is part of a curriculum being developed by teachers in Massachusetts,
New York, and Ohio in conjunction with the Center for Policy at the McCormack
Institute at Umass.
This is alos part of the Give US Your Poor: Homelessness and the U. S.
project designed to create public awareness of this issue and to stimulate
solutions through the idea of community.
It is being funded in part through an IMPACT II Service Learning and
Technology Grant. Video, photography, and art work will be on public display
as a result of this project. The event will also be filmed by students
and made into movies on homelessness.
Conference
Agenda
Conference
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