Interdisciplinary Collaboration Kickoff: The Black Panther Party

In spite of attendance challenges, some of us educators at Passages Academy’s Belmont site are kicking off a co-planned interdisciplinary collaborative unit on the Black Panther Party this week.  Social Studies, ELA, Art, and Special Education teachers are collaborating with the Reading Specialist, Speech Language Pathologist, and Librarian to lead students through an exploration of David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s graphic novel, above.   Student engagement is high.  You can read (and watch and listen to!) NYPL's Amber Certain review of the graphic novel here, along with her excellent recommendations for related texts. (Thank you, Hermithe Bernard, for sharing it!)  More soon. --Jessica Fenster-Sparber