The Christa McAuliffe Center
Fellowship Winners
Rhode Island
Marc Blanchette
Mount St. Charles Academy
800 Logee St.
Woonsocket, RI 02895
The project "A SOUND Curriculum For The 21st Century" goal was
to design and implement a SOUND curriculum for secondary school
instrumental programs that promoted the effective study and
performance of innovative American music. Seven pieces were
commissioned for secondary school bands. Each piece was taught
using comprehensive musicianship and given a world premiere
performance with the composer present. A McAuliffe Festival Of
New American Music was presented on April 28, 1995 at Rhode
Island College were each band presented their composition. A
compact disk of the festival is available. Master lesson plans
are being developed for all seven of the works and will be
available to teachers to aid in the presentation of these pieces
to secondary school students. (1994)
Elizabeth Ann Brito
Bristol High School
199 Chestnut St.
Bristol, RI 02809
The "Thinking/Learning/ Study Skills" project will
provide a sabbatical for dissemination of the TLS
program to elementary faculty and parents and for
classroom action research at the secondary level.
The project focuses on ways to encourage life-long
independent thinking and learning. (1990)
Jane Lancaster
Lincoln School
301 Butler Ave.
Providence, RI 02906
jane.Lancaster@Brown.edu
The "An Ornament and Honor to Their Sex" project is a document
based women's history curriculum, dealing with fifteen women who
made a difference. Class activities are included, and the
materials encourage critical thinking, empathy and analysis of
evidence. (1992)
Donna-May Leary
Ponaganset Middle School
RFD #2, Box 498A
North Scituate, RI 02857
"Getting the M.E.S.S.A.G.E. Across." This project
designates authors and works of American literature with
specially designed writing activities in a time sequence
coordinated with the chronological sequence followed in
social studies. The writing assignments are based on
the student-centered or process writing model. (1989)
Lila Kahn Mullins
Carl G. Lauro Elem. School
99 Kenyon St.
Providence, RI 02903
"Literature x 3." Project extends original curriculum
"Literature Based Integrated Language Arts Program:
Thematic Approach" (LIBILAP) to a private inner city
school and to the RI School for the Deaf. (1988)
Judith K. Sweeney
Curator of Education
Museum of Natural History
Roger Williams Park
Providence, RI 02905
cunra001@llwsbe.wsbe.or
Presenter 1995 Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Institute
Elementary Science "Naturally": Physical, Earth, and Life
Sciences will be explored and integrated in this engaging
workshop for Primary Level teachers. Besides unique resources
from the museum's collections, toys, trade books, and everyday
stuff will be used to present Discovery-Based Science. Grade
appropriate links between science, language arts, and mathematics
will be demonstrated. Participating teachers will receive packages
of free materials and resource to take back to their classrooms. (1991)
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