Only What We Can Carry
2011 Summer Institute
Landscapes and Lessons of
Exclusion, Inclusion, Citizenship and Community
August 22-24, 2011, 9am-5pm Daily
Bainbridge Island, WA
Open to Formal Educators (K-12 teachers) and
Informal Educators (educational program staff, docents, graduate students)
Three generations of current and former Bainbridge Islanders spend an afternoon with current Bainbridge Island teachers sharing stories of life before, during and after WWII, at Sakai Intermediate School, during our OWWCC 2010 Summer Institute.
Almost a century ago, John Dewey wrote about schools being made an authentic form of active community life, rather than “a place set apart in which to learn lessons.” This idea about K-12 education is as important today as it was close to a century ago. Educating young people in the 21st century involves helping them bear witness to realities past and present, and fostering responsible citizenship in a world of unprecedented interdependence, challenge, and possibility.
This summer, The Only What We Can Carry Project (OWWCC) at Global Source Education is presenting our second Summer Institute- an intensive three day professional development program offering educators an opportunity to explore landscapes and lessons of exclusion, inclusion, citizenship and community surrounding WWII and the Japanese American Internment, through the experiences of a particular island community in the Puget Sound. The Bainbridge Island story has elements common to many communities in locally and globally during WWII, but it also has elements that make it unique in many ways, which can still be witnessed today.
“We who are in education, cannot know, cannot truly know how it was, how it is,
but we can attend to some of the voices, some of the stories.
And as we do so, our perspectives on the meanings of freedom
and the possibility of freedom
in this country may particularize and expand”.
– Maxine Greene, The Dialectic of Freedom
The OWWCC Summer Institute was conceived to assist educators (formal and non-formal) in enriching their teaching and learning while finding more meaningful ways to bridge classroom and community around local-global topics of study. This professional learning experience is a rarely afforded opportunity to be in a dedicated professional learning community around a common topic of study we, as educators, feel responsible for in our curriculum and community.
Japanese Americans whose families founded some of the original and largest berry farms
on Bainbridge Island talk with visiting educators at historic Suyemastu Farm.
The Program
The summer institute is organized around the following guiding questions:
• What can the study of the Japanese American exclusion during WWII on Bainbridge Island teach us about inclusion, citizenship, and community - past, present, and future?
• How can Bainbridge Island serve as a landscape for learning and its community as curriculum to help enrich and enliven local, regional and global education?
• How often to we, as educators, get the opportunity to teach some of the more essential lessons about freedom, diversity, human rights, and democracy using a living community as a case study and our school’s backyard as a classroom?
• How can our own lived experiences with this topic of study cultivate a more lived curriculum for our students and community?
• How can this arena of education help us build stronger bridges between classrooms and community and stronger school-community relationships around issues of inclusion, exclusion, citizenship and culture?
- Day One: Understanding the Content and Context -
Through engaging with the living voices who lived through this era, interacting with primary and secondary sources, and touring Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, we will learn about the history and heritage of Bainbridge Island, examine the larger context surrounding WWII, and examine its impact on this Island community.
- Day Two: Getting to Know the Community -
Three generations of current and former Bainbridge Islanders will share their family stories of growing up on Bainbridge before, during and after WWII. We will tour the rich and abundant historical sites of Bainbridge Island with long time residents as your tour guide, including Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, Historic Suyematsu Farm, Old Port Blakely Mill. Participants will share, explore and learn ways to make the community part of their curriculum.
- Day Three: Making Curriculum -
How do bring what we have learned back to our own classrooms, schools, museums, cultural institutions and heritage sites? We will discuss pedagogical dimensions and curricular applications, look at existing models and resources, and offer participants the opportunity to work on their own educational plans and objectives for the coming school year.
100 year old Fumiko Hayashida, the oldest living Bainbridge Islander to live through Japanese American Exclusion, on March 30, 2011, standing next to photo of herself at the Eagledale Ferry Landing 69 years earlier, now the site of the
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial.
Program Features
• This program will be situated among the many historical sites on Bainbridge Island, include: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, Historic Suyematsu Farm, Sakai Intermediate School, Woodward Middle School. The program will also feature a private tour of Bainbridge Island from long time residents whose families helped shape the history and heritage of this Island community.
• Participants will learn first hand about the history and heritage of Bainbridge Island through the lenses from three generations of Islanders who grew up before, during, and after WWII. Through interviews, discussions, readings, and documentaries, participants will interact with Bainbridge Island residents, from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated, to Bainbridge Islanders who served in the war, to citizens who performed acts of good conscience on their behalf Japanese American neighbors, to those that did not want to see neighbors return to Bainbridge after the war.
• Participants will receive a copy of In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story and work with the author Mary Woodward, who is one of our OWWCC faculty.
• Book talk and literary discussion with Ken Mochizuki, well known author of children’s books like Baseball Saved Us, Heroes, and Passage to Freedom.
• Participants will receive a resource packet and have access to libraries of curricular and resource materials of OWWCC and our partner sites.
Program Information:
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Enrollment limited to 20 participants. Registration is on first come, first serve basis. Through our partnership with Bainbridge Island School District, 7 spots are reserved for BISD teachers.
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21 clock hours will be available (additional fee).
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Lunch and refreshments included.
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Participants will receive a resource packet and a copy of "In Defense of Our Neighbors", by Mary Woodward.
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Participants are responsible for their own accommodation and transportation. We will be happy to arrange for transportation to and from the Bainbridge Island ferry each day for walk on passengers.
Tuition Information:
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for the 2011 OWWCC Summer Institute
Feel free to contact us, with questions about the program, email or phone (206) 780-5797.
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Feel free to contact us, with questions about the program, email or phone (206) 780-5797.
This program is being presented in collaboration with and support from:
• Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community
• Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
• Woodward Middle School
• Sakai Intermediate School
• Bainbridge Island School District
• Day Road Farms
• Walt and Milly Woodward Fund
• Bainbridge Island One Call for All
• and others to be announced
Former Bainbridge Island middle school students talk with current Bainbridge Island middle school teachers
about their memories of war and internment and its impact on the experience of youth.
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