Education Reflections: Discovering Community in Proctor
At this year’s Discovering Community Summer Institute for Educators, the Discovering Community team were fortunate to be joined by Proctor High School educator Linda McCuen. In this post, Linda reflects on the implementation of her collaborative ethnography project and what her students learned in asking their community “What does it mean to be an American?”
A "Very Vermont" Summer Institute!
This year’s Discovering Community Summer Institute for Educators was held at The Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury. Faculty included Discovering Community educators Trish Denton and Mary Wesley, VFC’s Archivist Andy Kolovos, and visiting scholar West Virginia State Folklorist Emily Hilliard. With the support of a handful of key community members, we were able to weave together a wonderful, place-based program to discover the unique community that is St. Johnsbury today.