Today the Digital Hero Book Project (DHBP) kicked off at Prospect Sierra middle school in the Bay Area. This first ever session in the USA is with a group of seven students (from the 7th and 8th grades). The project is being offered as an elective subject on Monday afternoons and will finish on June 4th, 2007, just before the summer vacation begins.
Kathryn Lee and students on the DHBP.
Prospect Sierra students are very familiar with issues of social justice and activism.
The reading room.
Prospect Sierra Middle School: looking onto the library.
A challenge has been deciding how and where to include the project into the school’s usual activities. At first we discussed offering it to all 7th-graders during normal class time, but this would require substantial teacher training and a major change to the existing activities planned for those classes. In the end running the project after school with a small group of students proved to be the best idea. This is a pilot after all, so if it is successful then the school staff will consider “mainstreaming” it during morning classes in the future.
Molotech looks forward to working with Prospect Sierra. Thank you to Kathryn Lee, Rob Lewis and Abigail Joseph for being the team running the project at the school, and also to Nina Cohen for her support and willingness to pilot the project there.
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