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Teaching with Folk Sources
Learning from People’s Stories Join us in this interactive professional development workshop featuring speakers and content from Local Learning, Vermont Folklife, the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, New York Folklore, the Veterans Oral History Project, and the...
Teaching with Folk Sources-Tulsa 2025
Limited Spots still available to join us in Tulsa! The Local Learning...
Sound Recordings as Primary Sources Vermont Workshop
Sound Recordings as Primary Sources: Local Learning and Vermont Folklife A FREE, one-day...
Journal of Folklore and Education Museum Resources
Over the years, the Journal of Folklore and Education has published resources useful for museum educators, from our special issue dedicated to museum education in 2016 to ongoing articles ranging from teaching with primary sources to community-based museum outreach....
Culture, Community, and the Classroom in Wisconsin
"Before this workshop, I thought this would be an interesting workshop to help me connect some ideas in class. But now I know this is one of the best PDs I’ve been to and I cannot wait to use the materials in my classes. I learned so much not only for teaching but for...
Upcoming PD and 2025 News
In 2018 we began our now-annual Culture, Community, and the Classroom (CCC)series in New York, connecting traditional artists from many different communities with public school teachers and museum educators for two+ days of hands-on professional development. Each...
Meet Flavia Bastos
Meet Flávia Bastos—Local Learning Board Member “I think arts and creativity are really where life becomes interesting.” As Distinguished Research Professor in the Arts and Humanities in the Art Education Program in the School of Art, College of Design,...
2024 CCC New Paltz, NY Showcase
Artists and teachers will be presenting in the following order: Thank you for attending! To learn more, please Contact Local Learning. Thank you to our partners and funders for this Culture, Community, and the Classroom Showcase. Local Learning’s Culture, Community,...
Fall News from Local Learning
Dear Local Learning Community, Folk Arts and its role in educational settings has been a passion of mine for my entire career. When I was asked to join the board of Local Learning - and later to serve as its Secretary - I was thrilled to be able to work...
World Music Residencies in NJ
Local Learning is working with the Perkins Center in 2025! The Perkins Center is currently accepting applications for its World Music in the Schools (WMIS) program, which will bring global music and dance residencies to middle and high schools during the Spring 2025...
2024 AFS Education Session Pathways
AFS 2024 EDUCATION-RELATED SESSIONS November 6-9, Albuquerque Convention Center WEDNESDAY Folklife Participatory Action Research with the Southwest Folklife Alliance November 6th, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM MST Ballroom Facilitated by Selina Morales, Nelda Ruiz, Laura Rios...
Oral History in Interpretation and Museum Education
Join us! Local Learning joins Vermont Folklife and Washington State Parks to share resources from our Teaching with Primary Sources collaboration, “Teaching with Folk Sources.” This educational program will particularly focus upon using oral history materials in...
Educational Reparations and Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre
Updated with Registration Link! Oklahoma educators have been reading Dr. Bettina Love's texts, We Want to do More than Survive and Punished for Dreaming, while also engaging in the supporting album to the text Punished for Dreaming, produced by Dr. Stevie "View"...
2024 Summer News
A Note from Founding Director, Paddy Bowman As the summer unfolds... ...and as most K-12 students wind down their school year and look forward to a break, many of their teachers embark on new learning adventures through summertime professional development training,...
Sound Recordings as Primary Sources
Learning with the Vermont Folklife Archive and Teaching with Primary Sources Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 3:30 - 5:30 pm EST This workshop is FREE thanks to generous funding from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program. When you think about primary...