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The Story of Our People: From One Generation to the Next

A keynote project in which students create professional documentaries based on the "Survivor Circles" experience & showcased in a beautiful community-wide Film Festival as the hallmark of a newly written literacy-based, student-centered curriculum for Modern Jewish History that integrates academic skills with primary sources.

By: Anna Bolman from Fuchs Mizrachi School

Grade(s): 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Middle school, High school

Subject(s) of entry: History, Literature, Social Studies

Pedagogy: Experiential Education, PBL - project based learning, UBD - understanding by design, 21st Century Skills

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Students Making Connections: Oral Histories

We believe outreach to the community makes us stronger; thus, we create projects in which students move outside the classroom to interview community members and write reflections detailing how this experience affected them.

By: Dr. Whitney Kennon, Mrs. Rhonda Martin, Mrs. Ashley Brown from Margolin Hebrew Academy

Grade(s): 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Middle school, High school

Subject(s) of entry: English/ Writing/ Language Arts, History, Social Studies

Pedagogy: Blended Learning, IBL - inquiry based learning, PBL - project based learning, Social and Emotional Learning, 21st Century Skills

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