The Gadgets Have Lift-Off!

The Gadgets Have Lift-Off! This week, reinvigorated with energy from the mid-winter break and sunshine of this “Fool’s Spring” weather, Cerrito scientists set to work on the final project for our unit on electricity and magnetism-building gadgets! In teams of two and three, students brainstormed the types of gadgets they’d like to attempt by first […]

20 Years of Radical Black Joy @ the MoAD

20 Years of Radical Black Joy @ the MoAD As important as it is to learn the hard history of American Enslavement and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, we know that it was not the beginning nor it end of the Black experience around the world. It is equally, if not more important to center Black […]

Real History is Hard History

February 7, 2025 From our learnings about Jamestown and in pursuit of answering the question, “Why do people move?” we are embarking on our study of African enslavement in the US. We began our lesson with a, “What we think we know & What we wonder” brainstorm (photo below), setting some expectations around the language […]