Facing History : The Long Road to Freedom

Progressive educator Mary Groesch reflects upon her thirty years of teaching through sharing Facing History: The Long Road to Freedom, one of the many curriculum units she wrote during her tenure as a teacher. The main elements of progressive practice are evidenced throughout the unit: integrated subjects, allowing students to pursue interests, to work in cooperative groups, to belong to a classroom community, to share their learning, and to have the arts as part of the larger unit of study. Readers will learn how to create progressive units of their own. Faced with more traditional expectations, readers will learn how to facilitate projects to allow their students to experience progressive practice.