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Key Partnerships
Americans Who Tell the Truth
Zinn Education Project, Summer 2011
Americans Who Tell the Truth, Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project are working together to create a clearer pathway between the three organizations, given their shared interest in education and social justice. We hope this will work well for teachers who use these projects in their classrooms.
As a first step, Americans Who Tell the Truth will work with Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project to identify specific teaching resources that are directly connected to portraits in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series. Links to the materials will be posted on the corresponding portrait/ biography page. This will allow teachers to make use of the Americans Who Tell the Truth website to identify Rethinking Schools and Zinn Education Project activities more readily, in addition to our existing curriculum.
We are very grateful to Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project for this opportunity.
Operation Breaking Stereotypes: http://www.operationbreakingstereotypes.org/
YES! Magazine: http://www.yesmagazine.org/for-teachers,is working with Americans Who Tell the Truth to make use of the portrait subjects who are featured in the magazine articles and post those for teacher use when appropriate. YES magazine also features Americans Who Tell the Truth products, the book and articles by Robert Shetterly about his work. Most recently , we are partnering on an Exemplary Essay project http://www.yesmagazine.org/for-teachers/essay-bank/yes-exemplary-essay-quick-facts for students that asks them to consider a portrait and the issues related to it with writing prompts. Essays will then be shared with Americans Who Tell the Truth, the portrait subject and one will be chosen for publication on the YES magazine website. Yes magazine, education coordinator, Jing Fong.
My Hero Project – http://myhero.com/go/home.asp This organization has a global outreach with thousands of teachers around the world using it in the classroom. Americans Who Tell the Truth has an online gallery on the site as well as related lesson plans. Students can design exhibits related to themes, research the portraits and related issues to share them in the My Hero online area for that purpose.
Barefoot Artists: http://www.barefootartists.org/Rob Shetterly painted Lily Yeh, founder of Barefoot Artists as one of the earlier portraits. Since that time Americans Who Tell the Truth has worked closely with Barefoot Artists related to the work done in Rwanda. Rob traveled with Lily to work with children in the village to create an artistic vision of their hopes for the future; Michele worked with Lily to create an art “pen pal’ exchange program and exhibit. Currently, Americans Who Tell the Truth is working on a biography of Lily for middle school students.
San Quentin T.R.U.S.T.- http://www.sanquentintrust.org/This group of San Quentin inmates worked with Americans Who Tell the Truth biography editor, Kathleen Jackson, to create essays in response to the portrait of Wendell Berry. Mr. Berry corresponded with the men and students from a local school also wrote about the nature of freedom related to the portrait study. Students will continue this process in communication with the men in similar activity in the future.
Breckenridge Franklin Elementary/Central High School-University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law: For the third year, Americans Who Tell the Truth has been working with students and teachers using the portraits to explore history, use artistic expression to share personal truths about the community. Both schools have had visits from Rob and Michele over the years on a regular basis and studied the portraits in great depth.
University of Southern Maine/Lewiston: http://usm.maine.edu/lac/commoncore/
After numerous Americans Who Tell the Truth exhibits at the campus, the professors worked together to create a new curriculum that reflected the values and hopes for the future for their students. The curriculum was written as a result of what the professors experienced from students in response to the portraits. It is called “How Then Shall We Live?”
Most recently , the Kentucky Community and Technical College System , has been working toward incorporating these same ideas into their courses for students. A core group of professors is partnering with Americans Who Tell the Truth to follow the USM model.
Veterans for Peace: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Each year Robert Shetterly speaks at numerous engagements with Vets for Peace and creates a calendar of events related to peace and justice using the portraits. Recently Rob participated in a planned act of resistance to the current wars on 16 December, 2010.
Voices [Education Project]: www.voiceseducation.org
Acknowledging that conflict is inevitable, Voices envisions a world in which nations, communities, and individuals move beyond polarization and destruction, instead viewing conflict as an opportunity to create understanding, empathy and positive change. Through education, the arts, and self-expression, Voices aims to transform how we respond to, engage in, and recover from conflict. By working directly with instructors and students we strive to model pedagogical methods and social processes that challenge and enrich the arts, humanities and social science curricula. An on-line exhibit of Americans Who Tell the Truth can be found on the Voices website along with quotes, biographical statements and curricula.
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