Preparing to present a play to a visiting brigade...
A Roosevelt / To Roosevelt 2
"If you cry out, it sounds like the roar of a lion..."
Coffee Camp: Dance Class
Profe Marvin leads dance classes in modern & folkloric styles.
Coffee Campers
I wonder what stories these young minds will dream up when we get to work with pen & paper next class...
Knotted Circles + Squares
While riding on a plane lately, I found myself drawing lots of knots...
Coffee Camp: Physical Education
Students in the "Planting Hope" Coffee Camps come from families whose parents work in the local coffee harvest during school vacation. The camps give the kids a chance to participate in team- & skill-building exercises AND receive nutritious meals over the course of the day. Here we are at physical education class: I sat off to the side & …
“Mi Experiencia” / “My Experience” (Esther)
This reflection by Reyna Esther gives us a sense of one student's experience in a Planting Hope Coffee Camp: She begins: "Mi nombre es Reyna Esther Mirena Falcon cuando inicie en el campamento tenia 11 años" "My name is Reyna Esther Mirena Falcon when I started in the coffee camp I was 11 years old" …
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Ocalca Classroom
What a beautiful classroom, this wind-blown cattle road along the flanks of Ocalca...!
Nica History: Andres Castro and his Stone
Castro would have fought against William Walker's filibusters in the 1850s...
Nica History: Rafaela Herrera
I'm posting some Nicaraguan history displays from the walls of public school classrooms (and other places), as examples of the amazing graphic novels hidden inside standard essay paragraphs by educational institutions around the world... But who will draw them? We have, of course, met Rafaela Herrera before in a couple contexts; this setting adds some …
Bienvenidos a Nicaragua / Welcome to Nicaragua
The smell of recent rain on rock mixes with the smoke of burning meadows... It's good to be back.
School Supplies for BiblioMobil
A big thanks to the students of the Spanish Language Club at John Stark Regional High School ...
