ARCHAEOLOGY AND PUBLIC EDUCATION
25 More than 1,000 educators have participated in Crow Canyon’s Summer Institute for Teachers, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This program provides educators with an intensive place-based study of Pueblo cultural history and guides them in the development of new classroom curricula. “The program brings a diverse set of educators together at Crow Canyon to learn from a collaborative mix of Indigenous scholars. From this collaboration new ideas for curricula are produced for the benefit of students all over the country.” —Theresa Pasqual, Crow Canyon Executive Vice President of Indigenous Affairs 26 From the very beginning, we have been welcoming fourth graders and their teachers to our campus to augment history lessons. Educators teach accurate, inclusive history of the area through immersive, hands-on lessons that help students connect past histories and cultures to present-day descendants. Especially important is a focus on making these learning opportunities available to rural, tribal, and underserved schools. “Just looking at what Crow Canyon has been able to tell our community about the people who used to live here is really important.” —Moqui Mustain-Fury, Mentor Teacher, Battle Rock Charter School, Cortez, CO
27 Based on studies demon - strating that Crow Canyon students were retaining more through experiential, immersive experiences, we constructed additional, authentic learn - ing environments, including the Pueblo Learning Center (2004), Wikiups (2014), and an outdoor tipi classroom (2022). 28 In response to requests from teachers for lesson plans and ways to take Crow Canyon’s curriculum back to their students, Crow Canyon staff, together with Education Director at the time, Elaine Franklin, developed and published Windows into the Past: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s Guide for Teachers in 2000. 29 We launched the free, weekly Discover Archaeology Webinar Series in March 2020, bringing diverse archaeological perspectives into homes and classrooms throughout the country and world. Since then, we have hosted more than 170 webinars, welcomed more than 33,000 unique viewers, and experienced more than 340,000 views through our YouTube and Facebook channels. “Crow Canyon puts on some of the best webinars in the country!” —Webinar viewer
23 We began hosting College Field School programs for students in 2015 and more than 100 students have participated since. This seven-week program is one of the only comprehensive field schools in the southwest and equips students with fundamental skills and techniques essential for beginning, and continuing, careers in archaeology or anthropology. Especially unique is the program’s focus on reaching underserved students through scholarship funding from the National Science Foundation. 24 Awarded to a single enrolled Ph.D. student, The Lister Fellowship helps develop highly skilled archaeologists by financially supporting students, allowing them to focus on dis - sertation research. The program’s name recognizes the lifelong achievements of the late Florence and Robert Lister— archaeologists, educators, friends, and supporters of Crow Canyon.
22 For many years, we welcomed hundreds of middle and high school students for Archaeology Camps and a High School Field School pro - gram, providing students from across the country the opportunity to stay on campus and participate in hands-on archaeological research activities alongside professional archaeologists. These experiences made lasting impressions on students, led to lifelong friendships, and often influenced future paths and careers. “Because of the experience we had at Crow Canyon’s Field School, we were hired by the University of New Mexico in the Office of Contract Archaeology. We spent the next year in Dinétah preserving ancient Pueblo communities faced by an oil and gas pipeline project. We were 20 years old then, and it led to a multitude of other opportunities that truly changed our lives.” —Jim O’Donnell and Colby Bartlett, High School Field School participants, 1987 & 1988
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