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Success, a photo reflection by Kyle Kunkle
As I reflect back on the last two months spent in Tanzania, I find myself trying to define success. With our LTP work, there is no big finished product that we built over time and our group really will...
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“Mother,” a photo reflection by Jenny Sherman
I didn’t take this photo. I wasn’t even there when it was taken. I saw it for the first time yesterday, actually, at our final exhibition for all the LTP work that’s been done this summer. It was in...
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Final thoughts about LTP Arusha 2012 by Meaghan Li
LTP I was barely five years old – a clumsy and timid child of recent immigrants – gripping the hand of my grandmother as I led her up the classroom stairs. The teacher ushered us to her desk, where she...
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Stories from Stagville
This posts showcases work made by 5th grade students in Lisa Lord’s classroom at Club Boulevard Humanities Magnet School in Durham, North Carolina. Last spring the fifth graders worked with Duke...
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LTP in South Korea, a reflection by Michelle Jeon
Jumi made this picture pretending to be a photographer. She used to be very quiet but over our summer together she always asked me for the camera, and would follow me around whenever I had my DSLR....
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Portraits of classic literary figures, by Ms. Wash’s 7th grade students at...
This exhibition, now on view at the Durham County Library’s Main Branch at 300. N. Roxboro Street, features representations of classic literary figures made by students in Ms. Washalefsky’s language...
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Pictures of injustice by Ms. Edwards’ students at The School for Creative...
This exhibition, on view at the Durham County Library, illustrates students’ ideas about injustice. Seventh graders in Ms. Edwards’ class at The School for Creative Studies focused on their own lives...
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An LTP exhibition at the Durham County Library, May 2014
Please see the posts below to view online the LTP work made this spring by students at The School for Creative Studies. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 6th grade—Ms. Barnes Jymon Cassmajor Jonathan Castilleja...
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thoughts on week one in Tanzania, a post by Emily Yang
Even though we’ve been here for less than a week, we seem to be caught in a whirlwind that has yet to set us down. We have hosted four workshops at three different schools, witnessed both the...
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Studying professions with LTP in Arusha, Tanzania
Eighty Standard 6 students from Meru Primary School in Arusha made these photos exploring the work involved in the professions they intend to pursue. (Please click on individual images to view larger...
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Swahili words in pictures and signs
This post features two overlapping LTP projects. In the first, a group of teachers of young children made photographs illustrating the Swahili alphabet. For each letter of the alphabet teachers chose a...
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Swahili words in pictures and signs
This post features examples from two overlapping LTP projects. In the first, a group of teachers of young children from various schools in Arusha, Tanzania made photographs illustrating the Swahili...
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from Tanzania, a letter home about week two, from Nathan Hsieh
Today marks the end of our second week in Arusha. Things have become much more comfortable as we have overcome jet lag and fallen into a routine: Swahili lessons with Godson and Beatrice in the...
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Week Three Letter Home: An Overview and Reflection on “Signals, not noise,”...
“If you could hear this photograph, what would it sound like, smell like…?” Invoking the five senses is one of my favorite LTP questions to toss out. The students always look at me like I’m a crazy...
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Weak for Tanzania, by Dish Lamichhane
“I didn’t die!” I yelled as we made it back to Arusha home successfully after a one week trip to Pangani. That had become a motto of the trip for me after I survived a treacherous three hour boat ride...
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A photo reflection by Natalia Gallo
Three weeks into DukeEngage we’ve read pictures, mapped images, created picture alphabets, taken self-portraits, photographed professions, and thought out lesson plans. Throughout this process I’ve...
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Kiss Before Open, a letter home: week 5, by Katie Ellis
Strange title, you think? Not for the students of Arusha School. On a few lucky afternoons throughout our weeks here in Arusha, Tanzania, we DukeEngage students have been honored to receive notes of...
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Kwaheri–reflections on saying goodbye, by Natalia Gallo, Helen Liu and Dish...
We’ve been saying different goodbyes every week. By the end of our eight weeks here, we will only have worked at eight schools and have led four teacher workshops in five cities. This is great...
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Habari za Ngombe? News of the Cow? a photo reflection by Nathan Hsieh
When we were taking Kiswahili lessons, we began by learning greetings. “Shikamoo” for elders, “mambo” for youngsters, “salama,” “umelalaje?,” and much, much more. We learned questions to ask,...
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a photo reflection by Emily Yang
In a corner of Arusha School there is a room. Though the sign in the picture says nursery and primary, this room is open to all students. It is plastered from wall to wall with visual aids in every...
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