English Teacher/Coordinator Awarded Two Fellowships
It will be a busy summer for Kelly Quintero-Lashley, an English teacher and humanities department coordinator at Huntington High School. She was recently awarded two prestigious teaching fellowships.
The National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks summer fellowships were awarded following a highly competitive process. Joseph Leavy, the district director of humanities, said that Ms. Mrs. Quintero-Lashley’s participation in them will “bring great honor and distinction to our English department, district and high school.”
In July the veteran teacher will attend the Ellis Island Institute in New York and in August she’ll head to Honolulu Hawaii for an exciting program at Pearl Harbor.
Ms. Quintero-Lashley plans to use what she learns in these programs in two ways,” Mr. Leavy said. “First, she will use some of the oral histories linked to these American landmarks in her AP literature and creative writing classes. Second, she will make resources available to her Huntington High School colleagues in both English and social studies.”
Pace University will host the Ellis Island program, which will focus on the effect of the Ellis Island hospital system on the immigrant experience. Fellowship participants will spend time at Ellis Island, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Museum at Eldridge Street and the Museum of Chinese in America.
According to the Ellis Island Institute website, “By expanding the Ellis Island story to include the history of the U. S. Public Health Service hospitals and the role they played inspecting and treating ill immigrants, teachers gain a wider understanding of immigration policy at the time and how the Ellis Island story can inform current immigration issues. They also learn new tools for incorporating hands-on activities in their classrooms that link past immigration to present trends, making the stories come alive for their students.”
The East-West Center is sponsoring “Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, Memorial.” Twenty American and twenty Japanese educators have been selected for a program that will center on looking at how each of the countries teaches about the conflict between the two nations during World War II.
According to the East-West Center website the program “will provide the larger historical and cultural context for understanding the Pearl Harbor attacks by illuminating one of most important (if at times antagonistic) bilateral relationships in the 20th century—that between the United States and Japan—and the impact of that relationship on both nations’ international affairs. Importantly, it will explore the multiple histories that converge at Pearl Harbor—including not only American and Japanese but also Hawaiian and diverse American experiences, especially those of Americans of Japanese ancestry—reminding us that despite the mythic status of the Pearl Harbor story in American culture, there are in fact a number of ‘Pearl Harbors,’ with different impacts and memories for diverse Americans and for people throughout the world.”
Huntington students enjoy Mrs. Quintero-Lashley classes. "She represents the highest caliber of mastery teaching and as a result demonstrates to the scholarly community the standards of our district," Mr. Leavy said.
Both institutes will culminate in a series of online humanities lessons and units for the secondary grade level. For more information on either of the programs visit the Ellis Island Institute website at www.ellisislandinstitute.org or the East-West Center at www.eastwestcenter.org.
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