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.
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For our new rotating exhibition, Building Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases, the Leventhal Center hired and worked with three high school students from Boston Public Schools as teen curators.
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An interview with Sharon Hessney
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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
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High school students working with our educators explored the question of how racial ideas become spatial practice in Boston
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A participant in our summer NEH workshop for teachers discusses the new ways she looks at maps, the erasure of Native people, and how she’ll be teaching this fall.
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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
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The 2021-2022 school year has come to a close. Our K-12 Education Team, partner schools, educators, and students sure were busy!
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The Southwest Expressway and Inner Belt Highway projects were both proposed in the Master Highway Plan for the Boston Metropolitan Area in 1948. Designed to cut through densely-populated areas inside and outside of Boston, both projects were eventually halted and abandoned in the early 1970s.
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In mid-July, members of LMEC’s education team helped facilitate a two-week teacher workshop in partnership with the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education.
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