From the monthly archives: February 2011
This morning in Mrs. General and Ms. Andrews’ class at Grover, Sandra walked the students through an exercise in reading photographs and writing a story. Last week the class was given a homework assignment to bring in one photograph from home. “Choose any photograph you want,” Sandra instructed them, “it can be of yourself, your [...]
We are working with two classrooms at Grover Washington Jr. Middle School and Tuesday afternoon I was in the classroom of 8th grade teacher Celeste Rodriguez. Ms. Rodriguez asked me to work with a small group of students on a few different exercises. I began by reading the poem “I Have Dreamed of You so [...]
Tuesday was my first visit to the classroom of Pat Elder at C.C.A Baldi Middle School in North Philadelphia. Here are a few shots of some of the student work hung around the classroom and various supplies available to the students.
This week Ms. Elder began class with a writing [...]
This morning I made my first visit to the classroom of Ms. Ericka Andrews and Mrs. Sheila General at Grover Washington Jr. Middle School in North Philadelphia. Sandra Andino, the Philadelphia-based photographer working with the classroom on the LTP project, was there for her first day to speak to the students.
Students began [...]
On November 18 and 19, twenty-two school teachers, teaching artists and Moore art education students and faculty participated in all day workshops learning the LTP teaching tools, led by Katie Hyde, director of Literacy Through Photography at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, N.C.
Over the course of the two days we followed [...]
