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Seasons of Service
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World
of Women ~ Spread the Word
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What better way
to beat the Holiday Gimmees and observe Red Letter Days than
to practice good deeds? Here's a way to discover the true meaning
of holidays and heroes. Please join us in celebrating the following
Season of Service.
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To celebrate March as Women's History Month, Boston's TeachNet
Learn & Serve team invites students, teachers, and community
members to share stories about women who have contributed to local
and national history. Here are some ways to showcase women who have
served:
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Trail
Blazers Create a local women's heritage trail modeled
on The
Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Founded in 1989 as a Boston
Public Schools program, this private, nonprofit organization
illuminates, chronicles, and disseminates information about
women who have enriched Boston's history. BWHT, a longtime
IMPACT II TeachNet partner, highlights women's careers and
contributions for school and community.
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Boston
Womens Memorial Take a real or virtual tour
of this tribute to Abigail
Adams, Lucy Stone, and Phillis Wheatley. Write a review
of the sculptures for school or local newspapers.
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Neighborhood
Walks Research women who made local history. Learn
how one school explored its historic Charlestown neighborhood
and invited the community to Walk
Her Way Along a Women's History Trail.
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Monumental
Women Investigate statues
and public art by and of women. Organize
an exhibit where students design memorials
honoring local heroines. Display entries in town or city hall.
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Women
Count Portray women who use math and technology
in a Virtual
Math Museum. Invite school and community to student sponsored
museum tours.
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Lasting
Links Click on these related Web
Sites. Explore ideas about birthdays & biographies,
calendars & careers, people & places, questions &
quotations, timelines & testimonials. Share information
in publications & posters. Distribute throughout school
& community.
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Thanks
to Mary Smoyer, President of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail and
Teacher at the Trotter Elementary School, for the above photo. Costumed
students display their biographies of three world famous Boston
women as portrayed left to right: Isabella Stewart Gardner, Phillis
Wheatley, and Annie Sullivan.
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