Our Portland is a community-based school project designed to teach students about environmental justice, brownfields, social capital, and the history of oppression in their communities. In addition to a typical science classroom-based curriculum, the students get out into the city of Portland to learn about these issues in their own communities. Community leaders are invited into the class and along for the field trips to share their experience and expertise with the students, and to demonstrate the work that is happening in Portland to impact these issues.
The term-long collaboration culminates in Intersections, an art show featuring the students’ photographic studies of their communities and the issues they examined throughout the program. Intersections is a joint program of Groundwork Portland and My Story.
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