Applications due: APPLICATION PROCESS CLOSED FOR 2022
Stipend: $1000
Are you a teacher who teaches Boston history or contemporary issues in Boston?
Do you engage your students in project-based learning connected to Boston neighborhoods and social justice issues?
Would you like to incorporate more Boston-area maps in your classroom practice?
If you answered “Yes!” to any of the above questions, then join the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center (LMEC) this summer as a teacher fellow. As a summer fellow you will:
Any K-12 teacher or library media specialist who has an interest in teaching about Boston using maps and wants to create curricula in any content discipline area. Special consideration given to educators exploring issues of social justice in some way. Boston Public School teachers are especially encouraged to apply, as are teams of two or more teachers from one school
To apply, please send:
Please email all documents to: mleblanc@leventhalmap.org
Don’t take our word for it! Ask our 2021 Fellows:
“The flexibility of the program to make what we are doing meaningful to our students first and foremost [was something I liked about being a fellow]. We clearly teach in very different contexts with specific needs, requirements, etc. and I appreciated how [the center] honored that diversity.”
“I was not even considering using ArcGIS with students before this fellowship. The whole idea was intimidating and I wasn’t aware it was free through ESRI. Learning about it in pieces (and especially in the training you expertly led us through) makes me feel like I have the tools to create experiences with students.”
“I am thinking a lot more deeply about maps and how the data used to generate them can serve so many purposes and agendas. However, teaching students to think critically while teaching them how to use and make maps is endlessly rich and something I want to bring into daily classroom instruction.”