Balsz Elementary School District hosts pilot for 1619 Project educational development program
December 15, 2020|
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Balsz Elementary School District in east Phoenix will be home to a pilot program providing professional development for teachers on the consequences of Black enslavement and the contributions of Black Americans to United States history.
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1619 Project Advocates of Arizona are working to implement educational programming in Arizona schools based on the New York Times’ series “The 1619 Project,” for which the creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, won the Pulitzer Prize.
The 1619 Project is a collaboration of the New York Times and the Pulitzer Center in Crisis Reporting in Washington D.C. Last year,
Balsz School District first in Arizona to add New York Times Magazine s 1619 Project to its curriculum
Phoenix s Balsz School District is the first district in the state to use The New York Times Magazine s 1619 Project in its schools.
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PHOENIX â Phoenix s Balsz School District is the first district in the state to use
The Pulitzer-prize winning project looks at the impacts of slavery on the nation. It marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Virginia. You can view it, here.
Through a series of essays, images, stories and poems, it challenges the understanding of America s founding and its history by considering the year 1619 as the start of the United States story.