Finding Your Place: Teaching the History of People of Color in Connecticut

FAIN: ASB-292249-23

Connecticut State University System (New Britain, CT 06050-2439)
Leah Glaser (Project Director: November 2022 to present)

A two-year project creating curriculum and resources for K-12 educators on communities of color in Connecticut

The Finding Your Place project involves developing a new course about the history of long-neglected communities of color, with content specific to Connecticut. This course primarily aims to model new ways of training future educators earning their Bachelors in Secondary and Elementary History/Social Studies Education, before they get to the classroom. Methods include place-based learning and efforts to highlight events and communities where people of color and their histories meet, intermingle, and intersect. In addition to building upon proven instructional strategies with which we already train our teachers, faculty can enhance CCSU's Social Studies education and Public History programs by enlisting university resources and community partners to empower teachers to include more voices and perspectives with project and place-based curriculum.