Documents tagged "Common Core Standards"
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023452.txt
The document describes an educational initiative by Harvard Graduate School of Education and other organizations that combines the study of poetry with science, environment, and visual arts. Key topics include the exploration of various natural landscapes like oceans, ponds, marshes, mountains, forests, and coral reefs. The initiative features a diverse range of experts including poets, economists, historians, conservationists, scientists, and educators from Harvard University. Notable locations included in the study are Cape Cod, Nantucket, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Jamaica, Aspen, California, Papua New Guinea, and Harvard's Houghton Rare Book Library.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023450.txt
This document lists various conversations about the emotional life and character development through poetry with people such as Jason Collins, Anne Marie Slaughter, Annette Bening, Yo-Yo Ma, Lena Dunham, Sarah Kay, Jay Parini, David Coleman, Woody Allen, Rafael Campo, Alfre Woodard, Rabbi Moshe Waldocks, Bill Clinton, Sonia Sanchez, Herbie Hancock, Katie Couric, Kate Burton, and others. These conversations will take place in different locations such as the Emily Dickinson Museum, Harvard Yard, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the Hauser Studio. The topics of discussion include love, trauma, self-esteem, healing, grief, obedience to parents, marriage, dreaming, disappointment, memory, inheritance, and more.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023416.txt
This document describes an initiative by Harvard Graduate School of Education, HarvardX, and WGBH that combines poetry study with science, environment, and visual arts. Materials include archival images and live footage from various locations such as Cape Cod, Nantucket's Whaling Museum, and Emily Dickinson's home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Notable guests for this initiative include author Michael Pollan, economist Lawrence Summers, Vice President Al Gore, eco-critic Lawrence Buell, Harvard students and Boston area school teachers, Martin Espada, David Coleman, Ray Dalio, Jane Pickering, Peter Galison, Walter Isaacson, Walt Mossberg, David Malan, Richard Dawkins, and Harrison Ford. Future planned conversations include discussions on computer language and poetry, evolution and probability, and a conversation with actor Harrison Ford about "The Fish".