Van Cortlandt Park Alliance was honored to have our Enslaved People’s Project Curriculum featured recently on ABC 7’s coverage for Black History Month.
In 2020, the Enslaved People Project Curriculum was created in partnership with the
Van Cortlandt House Museum and the Kingsbridge Historical Society with funding from Bronx Community Board 8. As a result, two curricula are available for free on our website– perfect for 4th grade and middle school... any month of the year!
In the spring of 2022, Van Cortlandt Park Alliance worked with a Bronx-based teaching artist, Ashley Hart Adams, to pilot a brand new curriculum in a local middle school.
The purpose of this multidisciplinary program was to educate middle school students about the history of enslaved people in New York, and what is now known as Van Cortlandt Park, by using theater arts, creative writing, and social-emotional learning practices.
Thanks to new funding from the Baldwin Foundation, VCPA will launch a new program called, “Unearthing the Past/Building the Future,” which will link the Enslaved People Project curriculum with local environmental justice issues, using Daylighting Tibbetts Brook as an object lesson. If you are a teacher interested in this program please contact us at info@vancortlandt.org.
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