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The Boston Connection Project: A Cultural Diversity Immersion Experience

The Boston Connection Project, which is now being led by Jody Langseth and Joan Varney at UMD, began as an outgrowth of UMD's APT3 Project. Collaboration between UMD's Education Department and Charlestown High School in Boston is providing UMD teacher candidates with a diversity experience that would otherwise be unavailable to them.

Karen Keenan spoke about UMD's Boston Connection at the 55th annual meeting of AACTE (the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education) in January 2003.

• Karen Keenan's PowerPoint Presentation (download*)
• Video clips from presentation:
  1. Education majors - on visiting Charlestown High School in Boston (2.6 megabytes)
  2. Professor Jody Langseth - on the Duluth-Boston connection ( 3.7 megabytes)
  3. Videoconferencing as a tool for collaborating across sites (1.8 megabytes)

* Downloaded presentation requires Microsoft PowerPoint, or Microsoft's free PowerPoint Viewer.

Boston teacher (L) welcomes UMD faculty and students (Jody Langseth in white sweater)

Teachers at Charlestown

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