If these walls could talk ...The walls of every school have a story to tell. That's the thinking behind the first annual Historic School Day, on April 20 this year. It's part of the Council of Education Facility Planners International's second annual School Building Week. National Secondary Social Studies Teacher of the Year Geraldine Hastings and the National Trust for Historic Preservation Historic preservation is the act of maintaining and repairing existing historic materials and the retention of a property's form as it has evolved over time. When considering the United States Department of Interior's interpretation: "Preservation calls for the existing form, have created a classroom project to get students interested in the year or decade in which their school was built. The project involves oral history and analysis of documents and photographs, says Hastings, who teaches at Baltimore County Public Schools' Catonsville High. Besides the lesson plans, NTHP's Web site includes links to help with project research. NTHP NTHP National Trust for Historic Preservation NTHP Network Technologies and High Performance Protocols is also collecting photographs and descriptions of historic schools to share. How old must a school be to be considered historic? Not very. "Schools have history even if they are five or 10 years old," Hastings says. Also, beginning an archive of memorabilia mem·o·ra·bil·i·a pl.n. 1. Objects valued for their connection with historical events, culture, or entertainment: posters, publicity photographs, and other movie memorabilia. 2. will help future students to discover their school's history. She hopes the project will lead to other beginnings, too--such as a new school alumni association An alumni association is an association of graduates (alumni) or, more broadly, of former students. In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools (especially independent schools), fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni or a local historical society partnership. www.nthp.org CENTURY OF GROWTH Catonsville High School Catonsville High School (MMHS) is a four-year public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the southwest side of the county close to the Baltimore City boarder near Anne Arundel and Howard County just outside of the Baltimore Beltway. in Baltimore County has had four different locations since being organized more than 100 years ago. The current campus, the fifth largest in the U.S., inhabits the former site of a German immigrant's plantation Plantation, city (1990 pop. 66,692), Broward co., SE Fla., a residential suburb of Fort Lauderdale; inc. 1953. The city has grown rapidly along with the development of S Florida. . |
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