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New York Times Teaching Project, 2020-2021
MathematicsManual High SchoolDenver, CO
Project Title:Environmental Justice:Empowering StudentsThrough Data
Description:As a team we are looking tohelp our students build theskills needed to interpret andextrapolate complex dataand apply their skills tocritically evaluate climatechange and the implicationsfor environmental justice fortheir generation.
English Language Arts, Social StudiesDaniel R. CameronElementaryChicago, IL
Project Title:Capturing the Beauty of OurCommunity
Description:In an effort to present acounter narrative about theHumboldt Parkneighborhood of Chicago,7th grade art students will beusing photo examples fromThe New York Times to learnhow to find and highlight thebeauty in a community.
English Language ArtsJ.R Masterman SchoolPhiladelphia, PA
Project Title:Learning How to Develop anOpinion
Description:Via reading and discussingarticles from the StudentOpinion section of TheLearning Network, studentswill develop their individualvoices and build self-confidence by learning howto both verbally express, andmasterfully write about, theirown opinions.
Social StudiesBurlington City High SchoolBurlington, NJ
Project Title:Teaching Flaws: MountRushmore and Beyond
Description:Students will explore howmedia coverage shifts asworld views become moreaccepting and empathetic,looking specifically, via Timesarticles past and present, athow Confederatemonuments and MountRushmore have beenunderstood.
English Language ArtsReynoldsburg High SchoolHS2 Stem Academy Columbus, OH
Project Title:Understanding the OpioidCrisis
Description:Using interactive resourcesfrom The New York TimesLearning Network, studentswill explore the role andresponsibility a communityhas for individuals affectedby the opioid epidemic.
Social StudiesAkins Early College HighSchoolAustin, TX
Project Title:Pushing Back on Pushing Out: Rethinking Curriculum in Texas
Description:I'm interested in teenactivism locally in Austin,Texas, and how we can usethat in the classroom to getstudents to discuss Texascurriculum, askingspecifically, Why does Texasthink some knowledge ismore important than otherknowledge?
ScienceRaoul Wallenberg TraditionalHigh SchoolSan Francisco, CA
Project Title:Environmental Justice:Empowering StudentsThrough Data
Description:As a team we are looking tohelp our students build theskills needed to interpret andextrapolate complex dataand apply their skills tocritically evaluate climatechange and the implicationsfor environmental justice fortheir generation.
English Language Arts, LibraryNorthern Utah Academy forMath, Engineering & ScienceLayton, UT
Project Title:Sentences That Matter,Mentor, and Motivate
Description:Using articles from The NewYork Times, we willcollaborate to create aresource of mentorsentences for educators touse when teaching commongrammatical structures.
English Language ArtsMesa Verde High SchoolCitrus Heights, CA
Project Title:Finding Your Voice to Effect Change
Description:Students will establish theiridentity and explore issuesof importance to them;research and present thehistorical roots of a relatedmovement; and develop anaction plan to use theirvoices to effect change onthose issues.
English Language ArtsCentral High School La Crosse, WI
Project Title:TikTok Rhetorical Analysisof the 2020 Debates
Description:After engaging in theLearning Network's CivilConversation Challenge,students will compose arhetorical analysis of a 2020presidential debate andconvert it into a TikTokvideo.
Alina Acosta Sabrina Alicea Donna Amit-Cubbage
Alyssa Anderson Cassie Bentley-Bradshaw
Pedro Berlanga Sohum Bhatt Blake Bockholt Diane Boyd Kim Butterfield
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Jennifer CarlsonEnglish Language Acquisition(ESOL)Glen Burnie High SchoolGlen Burnie, MD
Project Title:Challenging Expectations andConfronting Stereotypes
Description:After analyzing stereotypes in the media and in personalexperiences, students willcreate a photo essay tocontrast the expectationsothers have of them with howthey see themselves andwhat they want the world toknow about who they are.
EL Specialist, EnglishLanguage ArtsClayton High SchoolSt. Louis, MO
Project Title:Looking Inward to FocusOutward
Description:Students will focus inward,learning about theirgeneration and then focusoutward, writing aboutcoming of age in 2020.
Amy ChappuisEnglish Language ArtsHewitt-Trussville High SchoolTrussville, AL
Project Title:Re-Remembering the Past
Description:After reading The 1619Project, students will arguefor what should be done witha specific Confederatememorial in Alabama today.
Jennifer Coleman Debbie Domingues-MurphyLibrarian, Information LiteracyCity Charter High SchoolPittsburgh, PA
Project Title:Information Literacy toIdentify Community Issues
Description:Using New York Timesmaterials like "What's GoingOn in This Picture?," studentswill learn close reading andprimary-source analysis inorder to research andpresent about communityissues.
Claudia FelskeEnglish Language ArtsEast Troy High SchoolEast Troy, WI
Project Title:Examining Identity, Race, &Privilege in Texts, Self, &Society
Description:Students will examineidentity, race and privilege asthey read and interpretfiction and nonfiction.
Christa ForsterArts, English Language ArtsThe Kinkaid SchoolHouston, TX
Project Title:Groundswell: MindfulnessBeneath the Curriculum
Description:Students experiment withdifferent mindfulnesspractices in order to adaptand to create discipline-specific, mindfulness-basedinterventions, which they useto inspire themselves andothers to perservere throughdifficult and uncertain times.
Kelsey FrancisEnglish Language ArtsSaranac Lake High SchoolSaranac Lake, NY
Project Title:The Other: Identity, Privilege& Inequity
Description:Using the NYT LearningNetwork Personal NarrativeEssay Unit, students will writetheir own narrative essaysfocused on when they havebeen "the other" (as inspiredby the book, "The Other WesMoore").
Judi FreemanHistory and Art HistoryBoston Latin SchoolBoston, MA
Project Title:Harnessing Individualism toBenefit the Collective,Common Good
Description:Students will conduct aninvestigation into how civicresponsibility is vieweddomestically and globally,examining Times stories thataddress individualism inconflict with collectivism anddeveloping multimediacampaigns on benefitting thecommon good.
Sarah GartonSocial StudiesGreat River SchoolSt Paul, MN
Project Title:The Neighborhoods WeNeed
Description:Ninth grade governmentstudents will conductstudent-led action researchon police reform andabolition perspectives byasking, What are theneighborhoods we need inthe Twin Cities and whatmakes us safe?
Dina GiannakopoulosEnglish Language Arts, ELLBarrington High SchoolBarrington, IL
Project Title:Expressing Our Generation
Description:Using “How Black Lives MatterReached Every Corner ofAmerica” as a model article,and the "Show Us YourGeneration" contest as aprompt, students willcollaboratively work to createa piece that uses multipleforms of expression to voicehow they hope theirgeneration will be perceivedand remembered in the future.
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Karen GoldEnglish Language ArtsThe Governor's AcademyByfield, MA
Project Title:Americans as Protestors:Taking It to the Streets
Description:Using the Times Machine,students will explore therhetoric of protestmovements of the past andhow the media coveredthese protests.
Gabriel GrañaLibrarianRD & Euzelle Smith MiddleSchoolChapel Hill, NC
Project Title:Many Stories, One Smith
Description:After exploring New YorkTimes mentor texts,engaging with LearningNetwork lessons, andexamining past contestwinner submissions, SmithMiddle School will exploreidentity through a series ofslice-of-life student artifacts.
Kathryn GulloEnglish Language ArtsNorth Hollywood High SchoolGifted MagnetNorth Hollywood, CA
Project Title:Rhetoric of Social Media
Description:This crash course invitesstudents to examine howarguments are made andshift on different platforms;how both the medium andaudience impact themessage; and how onlinepersonas, including their own,may be constructed.
Kristina HarveyEnglish Language ArtsWilton High SchoolWilton, CT
Project Title:Documenting a Year: ARecord of Now
Description:In a project that will includea digital portfolio (writing,photojournalism, multimediaprojects, sound journals, andmore), my 10th gradestudents will record theirexperiences in real time asthis year unfolds, thencreate Genius Projects oftheir own design.
Jessica HunterEnglish Language ArtsGreat Neck North HighSchoolLong Island, NY
Project Title:Year In Review:Photojournalism and SelfExpression
Description:Through a series ofassignments includingjournal entries, writingprompts, poetry and more,my students will record andrespond to events as theyunfold, culminating in finaldigital portfoliosshowcasing their work.
Claudine JamesEnglish Language ArtsMalvern Middle SchoolMalvern, AR
Project Title:Raising Our Voices, Again
Description:The goal is to highlightindividuals throughouthistory who have used thepower of their actions andvoice to overcome hardshipand obstacles.
English Language ArtsMamaroneck High SchoolMamaroneck, NY
Project Title:Changemakers: Telling theStories of People Who SeekChange, Stand Up, & Fight Back
Description:Using Times pieces asmodels, students will,throughout the year, writeshort, journalistic profiles oflocal people they identify asmaking a difference.
Mary Beth JordanSocial StudiesMontgomery Upper MiddleSchoolSkillman, NJ
Project Title:History Today
Description:I would like to seamlesslyintegrate current events intoboth my World History andUS I classes as anassessment of skills,conceptual thinking, andessential understandingrather than as an artificial ordisconnected "add-on."
Kelli Kallens Scott KallensSocial StudiesHillsborough High SchoolHillsborough, NJ
Project Title:Empowering StudentActivism by CombatingSystemic Racism Locally
Description:Students will examine thepervasive nature of racistsystems, and how theyreinvent themselves whenthreatened, in order to findcontext in modern issues ofsocial justice.
Jessica KirklandEnglish Language ArtsPark View High SchoolSterling, VA
Project Title:"What Will I Be UrgentAbout?": Teaching Studentsto Be Activists
Description:Using the LearningNetwork's writing curriculumand their Civil Conversationproject, students will trackissues of social justice thatmatter to them and create ina variety of genres to "showup with urgency" for theseissues.
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Ben KlashEnglish Language ArtsBeaverton High SchoolBeaverton, OR
Project Title:Connecting Community:Student-Choice MultimediaProjects
Description:Students will use photos andinterviews with figuresoutside of their school livesto create a multimediaproject that connects thedifferent communities theybelong to.
Sam KohnSocial StudiesCampus International HighSchoolCleveland, OH
Project Title:The Cold War 20/20
Description:Students will create a briefpodcast assessing theimpact of a Cold War leaderand examining how theyshould remembered today.
Michael KokozosSocial StudiesGulliver PrepPinecrest, FL
Project Title:The Virtue Project: Rethinking Virtual Activism
Description:This project seeks toilluminate the differencebetween "being virtuous" and"virtue signaling" bydeveloping and applying avirtual virtue framework todigital activism case studiesto entertain processes ofdigital citizenship and acquireproblem-solving skills.
Andrew KollenSocial StudiesIrvington High SchoolFremont, CA
Project Title:Insta-Activist Project
Description:My Government students willchoose a current social and/orpolitical issue, research theirtopic using The Times, andcreate an Instagram-like feedof pictures, quotes, articles,and opinion pieces to helpeducate themselves andothers in becoming activists intheir communities.
Kristin LawlorEnglish Language Arts,Journalism, ENLThe Young Women'sLeadership School of The BronxThe Bronx, NY
Project Title:2020, My Camera Phone, and Me: A Photo Essay
Description:Using their cameraphones,students will create aphotoessay of the highs andlows of 2020 to tell a storyabout their communities, theirfamilies, remote learning, orother aspects of their life rightnow.
Hannah LipmanEnglish Language ArtsNewburg Middle SchoolLouisville, KY
Project Title:Who's Responsible forRemembering? Who GetsRemembered?
Description:Students will analyze theconcept of historical memorythrough Times resources;consider what importantevents they themselves haveborne witness to; and, finally,create short videos examining"Who’s responsible forremembering?" and "Whogets remembered?"
Tessa MaglioEnglish Language ArtsSouth Milwaukee High SchoolSouth Milwaukee, WI
Project Title:Current Event SynthesisPrompt
Description:Students will create an AP-Lang-style synthesis prompt,including cited sources, whichmust include journalism (bothwritten and visual) from TheTimes as well as othersources.
Tiffany MathesEnglish Language ArtsBeaverton High SchoolBeaverton, OR
Project Title:Storytelling: The Wisdom ofOur Elders
Description:Students will interview andsource stories from arespected elder and adaptone story of their choice intoa complete narrative toldfrom a first-personperspective, which will thenbe shared with their peers ina story-hour performance.
Tatianna McKinneySocial StudiesTrinity Preparatory SchoolWinter Park, FL
Project Title:Genius Hour: Social JusticePodcast Project
Description:Using social justice as aframework , students willresearch, edit and record afive-minute podcastepisode about theimportance of their topicsand possible solutions forthem.
Kathleen MillsEnglish Language ArtsBloomington High SchoolSouthBloomington, IN
Project Title:"Rhetoric Is the Art of Rulingthe Minds of Men"
Description:Using The Times to drilldown on rhetoric thatmatters in real-worlddebates.
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Brian MilzSpecial EducationWest De Pere Middle SchoolDe Pere, WI
Project Title:Contest Club
Description:My project will be to create aclub/extracurricular for mymiddle school specialeducation students thatencourages and helps themto enter various contests,and provides support forthem from our faculty.
English Language Arts, Social StudiesThe New SchoolAtlanta, GA
Project Title:The Past Is Present
Description:Our US History class willexamine a New York Timesarticle, image, or graphiceach week, and use it toconnect our past to presentand to practice makingthematic connectionsacross time.
Mary Reid MunfordEnglish Language ArtsBath High SchoolBath, MI
Project Title:Writing Our Own Lives
Description:Using the archived New YorkTimes "Lives" column,students will explore choiceand voice as they analyze"lives" essays for authors'craft and then write their ownsubmissions for either TheLearning Network narrativecontest or the Common Appessay.
Sharon Murchie Lena PapagiannisSocial StudiesJohn D. O'Bryant School ofMathematics and ScienceBoston, MA
Project Title:Noticing, Holding,Remembering: We Are theHistory
Description:Inspired by the centrality ofphotojournalism to theTimes, I want to create aproject that invites studentsto notice their world, holdtheir noticings, and activelyremember them byrecording and posting audio,video or written diary entries.
Avery PickfordMathematicsLick-Wilmerding High SchoolSan Francisco, CA
Project Title:A "Close Read" of DataVisualizations
Description:My statistics students willuse resources from "What'sGoing On in This Graph" tostrengthen their ability tocritically assess media theyconsume.
Erin PinskySocial StudiesJoel Barlow High SchoolRedding, CT
Project Title:Native AmericanExperiences and PublicPolicy
Description:Students will pursue actionresearch projects thatexamine recent public policyon diverse indigenousnations, with the aim ofpresenting policy guidanceand community initiativesthat connect the historicalexperiences of NativeAmericans to today's currentissues.
Kate PlowsArtsStrath Haven High SchoolWallingford, PA
Project Title:Making ImpactfulPhotography Practical
Description:A coaching tool featuringreal-world photojournalismexamples and exercises fromThe Times and The LearningNetwork will help teachersintegrate digital photographyinto their assignments, withsupport and assessmentmodels that will help studentssucceed.
Michael PotterEnglish Language ArtsHilton High SchoolHilton, NY
Project Title:Voices from Afar
Description:Students will discuss sharedtexts with peers from otherparts of the country, buildingenough of a relationship toeventually conductinterviews in hopes ofgaining and recording anarray of perspectives beyondwhat they are normallyexposed to.
Jeanette PriceEnglish Language Arts,Foreign LanguageColumbia Falls High SchoolColumbia Falls, MT
Project Title:So Sorry: The Modern Roleof Apologizing (or Not) inPublic and Private Contexts
Description:After evaluating when weshould or should not beapologetic, students willcritically analyze the rhetoricof apologies and appraisetheir effect today wherecancel culture and#sorrynotsorry coexist.
Kendra RadcliffEnglish Language ArtsDruid Hills High SchoolAtlanta, GA
Project Title:Human Issues Compilation:Fiction Tells the Truth
Description:Students will create a human-issues video compilation thatmerges the human and socialissues of our world with theuniversal themes theyunearth from teacher-selected short stories; storiesfrom The NYT's DecameronProject; and articles, imagesand media from elsewhere inThe Times.
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Jodi RamosEnglish Language ArtsStevenson Middle SchoolSan Antonio, TX
Project Title:Sentences That Matter,Mentor, and Motivate
Description:Using articles from The NewYork Times, we willcollaborate to create aresource of mentorsentences for educators touse when teaching common grammatical structures
Donna SchouPhotography, CTELynnwood High SchoolBothell, WA
Project Title:My World...My Lens
Description:After analyzing, critiquing andresearching imagespublished in the NYT, myphotography students willpresent their own image orimages, along with writtenreflective descriptions, thatdescribe the worlds they seethrough their individuallenses.
Teresa ScollonEnglish Language ArtsTBAISD Career-Tech CenterTraverse City, MI
Project Title:Becoming Investigators
Description:Students will prepare for asecond-semesterinvestigative journalismproject by reading deeply("What the Eyes Don't See"by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha)and broadly (readings andresources); learningrhetorical structures;interviewing adult subjectmatter experts; and learningcritical research skills.
Joel SnyderSocial StudiesAnimo Pat Brown CharterHigh SchoolLos Angeles, CA
Project Title:The Policies That Shape OurLives
Description:Based on the ballotmeasures in California inNovember's election,students will research anissue in the NYTimes in orderto understand and makerecommendations for votersin their community.
Jenny StirratLibrarianNortheast Early College HighSchoolAustin, TX
Project Title:Everybody's a Critic
Description:By developing an entry forthe Learning Network'sReview Contest, students willlearn how to form opinionsabout culture and how tosupport these opinionseffectively in writing.
Nicholas StoneSocial StudiesMillennium High School New York, NY
Project Title:Contemporary Controversies
Description:Students lead one anotherthrough an investigation andevaluation of a NYTcolumnist's opinion on acontroversial issue.
English Language ArtsMadison Central High SchoolMadison, MS
Project Title:Projects Inspired by, orBased on, The 1619 Project
Description:AP Language andComposition students willuse the 1619 essay by NikoleHannah-Jones, "The Idea ofAmerica" and the entire 1619podcast to explore thetheme of "the past is ourpresent" and to focus onhow Mississippi is stillreckoning with our past.
Rebecca TempleEnglish Language ArtsYukon Middle SchoolYukon, OK
Project Title:Finding Truth ThroughNarrative Writing
Description:Students will create personalnarrative essays and visualprojects after learning aboutthe lives of differentmarginalized groups andexploring their own personaltruths.
Meta Mikal Tews Jen WilkoszSocial StudiesBerlin High SchoolBerlin, CT
Project Title:Form a Political PartyPlatform
Description:After analyzing currentpolitical platforms andwebsites, students willcreate their own based ontheir beliefs and then runindividual campaigns for amock election.
Keshia WilliamsScienceLee High SchoolMontgomery, AL
Project Title:Environmental Justice:Empowering StudentsThrough Data
Description:As a team we are looking tohelp our students build theskills needed to interpret andextrapolate complex dataand apply their skills tocritically evaluate climatechange and the implicationsfor environmental justice fortheir generation.
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