Today marks the 110th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt declaring the Grand Canyon a national monument. Many FFT Fellows... read more →
Congratulations to Luis Gonzalez and his art teacher/FFT Fellow Ari Hauben for Luis' selection as one of three young artists whose work now adorns LIFEWTR bottles. According to the... read more →
First responders in Hurricanes Harvey and Irma had no idea they were following the direction of high school students. Working feverishly behind their computers, Leah Keith Houle's students in Red... read more →
The facts represent La Malinche (or Doña Marina) as a slave, advisor, mistress and emissary. Whether those roles positioned her as a hero, victim or traitor is up for debate... read more →
One could say that Harriet Tubman founded the Black Lives Matter movement. After escaping from a Maryland plantation in 1849, she helped establish the Underground Railroad and became its most... read more →
We all remember a teacher who touched our lives. No matter how old you were or what they taught, I guarantee that our favorite teachers shared common traits… • They... read more →
It's the New Year's Eve song most of us mumble through, but the English translation of "Auld lang syne" is "times gone by." Looking back over the year in fellowships,... read more →
So where does our cafeteria food come from? Lu Ann Carey’s father grew peaches for most of his life and, at 84, still operates a fruit truck offering fresh produce... read more →
Three exceptional FFT Fellows made time amidst grading tests and hosting classroom parties to share with us their year in review. Sydney Chaffee spent 2017 on sabbatical from Boston's Codman... read more →
Thank you, Amie Robinson, art and special education teacher at PS77 in Brooklyn, NY, for sharing your fellowship story with us. Last summer, Amie researched the impact of sketchbooks as... read more →