Imagine being able to bring students together from different parts of the country and world to collaborate on projects and discuss the Civil Rights Movement. Teaching for Change, in partnership with LEARN and CEBER, participated in three sessions of the Civil Rights Teaching Global Learning Network. This groundbreaking project utilizes the Internet to create a structured means of linking students from distant classes, creating a new political and cultural awareness around the issues of civil rights and people’s movements.

The Civil Rights Teaching Global Learning Network is based on four lessons from Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching. An online campus featuring lessons from the book, instructions, links to handouts, and a designated space for posting activities and messages was created. At the beginning of each two-month session, we worked to partner different classes (e.g. urban with rural, pre-service teachers with elementary school students) through a listserv and online campus, where students can communicate with one another by posting messages and sending emails.

In three sessions, the project worked with classes in California, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington, DC, and Wisconsin. We also had classrooms from other countries participate including classes from Kazakhstan and Russia. more >>