Why does the Heritage Project matter.

Why does the Heritage Project matter?

Department of

Education knows it matters

Communities are created in the stories they tell the next generation

Kit Carson

Life imitates stories

Engaged in the

real work

Stories loose in the worldStories are more powerful than

geography and economics

Crisis in the Narrative

Environment

Epidemic of Disengagement

Lack of “narrative fit”between the stories of schoolingand students’ personal lives

Who are we?

Professionals?Or members of a local community?

Narrative vacuums will be filled

Grassroots revolution

Meaning Motivates

Playing the infinite game

The Pursuit of Truth

including older and more traditional

understandings of truth

Community-Centered Teaching:truth in a local dialect

Communities of purpose

What is the purpose of your curriculum?

How are the understandings we seek manifest locally and regionally?

The adventure of scholarshipreading, taking notes, interviewing, presenting

Other things will happen

What does it take to build community?

What does it take to sustain community?

Linking community and scholarship

Accountability in the Community

Exhibitions of masteryand more. . .

Communities, education, and stories are inextricably bound

Parental and community supportin the educational mission

How Does it fit into your curriculum?

What are the stories you need to tell?

Michael L Umphreyumphrey@edheritage.org

406 745-2600

http://www.edheritage.org