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School board to recognize Ketchikan teacher Sarah Campbell for work towards world peace
Posted by Eric Stone | Jul 13, 2021
Ketchikan High School’s peace pole features messages of peace in six languages. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Campbell)
Ketchikan’s school board is set to recognize the work of a high school teacher who has made world peace an integral part of her lesson plans.
The U.S. Institute of Peace chose English teacher Sarah Campbell to participate in their 2019 Peace Teachers Program. She discussed her work at a virtual event sponsored by the Congressionally-funded nonpartisan institution last week.
“Being part of this program has been tremendous and really given me the knowledge and the confidence to bring peace education into my curriculum at Ketchikan High School,” Campbell said.
Amid the COVID pandemic and national upheaval, four high school teachers from Alaska, Kentucky, Mississippi and Nebraska participated in USIP’s Peace Teachers Program and dedicated themselves to helping their students make sense of conflicts in the world and to showing them how peace can be achieved.
The Peace Teachers Program is rooted in the conviction that educators can be pivotal in bringing issues of international conflict and practical peacebuilding skills into their classrooms, schools and communities. Each school year, USIP selects a cohort of outstanding American middle and high school teachers from different U.S. states to receive education, resources and support to strengthen their teaching of international conflict and peace. Given the disruptions of the COVID pandemic, the 2019 cohort was extended and the teachers persisted, despite the difficult context, in providing their students with opportunities to explore new perspectives, make global connections and develop