Education - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

April 9, 2021
LMEC Staff

Teaching with Maps in the Past

We use maps for teaching every day at LMEC, just like educators have been doing for centuries!

January 31, 2022
Michelle LeBlanc

Maptivists at the Margarita Muñiz Academy

Our education team spent the first two weeks of January teaching an intersession on critical map literacy to a small group of seniors at the Margarita Muñiz Academy.

February 17, 2023
Michelle LeBlanc and Sharon Hessney

“What’s Going On in This Graph?”: The Power of Noticing and Wondering

An interview with Sharon Hessney

March 4, 2023
Amy Finstein, Emily Marino, Owen Kenney, Kathleen McCarthy, Julia Clarke, and Maggie Hartnett

New Stories From Before Displacement: An Urban History

Undergraduates at the College of the Holy Cross used Atlascope to research the buildings and landscapes of Boston that were destroyed by the Central Artery

March 10, 2023
Joshua Aldwinckle-Povey, Nick Duffy, Vy Phan, Aditi Shankar

An Interview with the Spring 2023 Interns

Meet the team of wonderful student interns who have been hard at work this semester on various LMEC projects

March 22, 2021
Rachel Mead

One Year of Remote Programming

After being closed for a year, we’ve built up a wealth of online offerings for you to use anytime!

June 15, 2021
Eric Robsky Huntley, Garrett Dash Nelson, and Michelle LeBlanc

Maps with Young Learners in Mind

A new grant-funded project in collaboration with faculty and students at MIT will support the development of tools to teach critical geospatial data at the pK-12 level

June 17, 2021
Lynn Brown

Highlights from Maptivist student projects

High school students working with our educators explored the question of how racial ideas become spatial practice in Boston

June 18, 2021
Amy Finstein, Paige Epp, Sydney Fisher, Elyse Cote, Renata Palau, and Kristen Weber

Before Displacement: An Urban History

Undergraduates at the College of the Holy Cross used Atlascope to research the buildings and landscapes of Boston that were destroyed by the Central Artery

November 15, 2021
Michelle LeBlanc

Indigenous People’s Heritage Month: Lessons and Resources Exploring Land and Maps

November is Indigenous People’s Heritage Month, a chance to unlearn entrenched narratives and relearn the complex history and modern presence of Native people across North America