Bridges
Newsletter
The
Bridges newsletter is written, produced, and edited each
year by students in the Lessons of Vietnam class. (Adobe Acrobat
required to download newsletters.)
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2007
- 2008 Bridges Staff
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Community
in the Classroom
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Curriculum
Guide
2002
VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher of the Year
Lindy Poling's guide to setting up a Community-in-the-Classroom
program to enliven and improve a Social Studies curriculum.
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Guidelines
for Teachers
Teacher
Guidelines for Linking Students to the Vietnam Era.
A web site based on Millbrook's Lessons
of Vietnam Class designed and taught by Ms. Poling. Posted
at the Community in the Classroom Web Site at WCPSS.
Curriculum
Guide
2002
VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher of the Year Lindy
Poling's guide to setting up a Community-in-the-Classroom program
to enliven and improve a Social Studies curriculum.
Teaching
the Lessons of Vietnam
[word doc]
A rationale for the LOV class by Lindy G. Poling recently published
in The War and The Wall.
 Teach
Vietnam Teachers' Network and Teachers Conference
[word
doc]
In July 2002, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund officially
launched its newest program – the Teach Vietnam Teachers’
Network.
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Honors
& Awards
Ms. Poling Again
Featured in USA Today
-March
14, 2005 Personal approach revisits
the past with a point of view. USA
TODAY Honors Millbrook High Teacher -
October 14, 2004
USA Today named Millbrook
High teacher Lindy Poling one of the 20 teachers from across
the nation on their All-USA Teacher First Team. Mrs. Poling
has been a history teacher at Millbrook High School since 1984.
She has earned honors in Wake County and across the country
for her Community-in-the-Classroom approach to studying history
and her class, Lessons of Vietnam/Recent International Relations.
Full
USA Today Article or Read
more from WCPSS.
2006 NC History Teacher of the Year - NEW
YORK, NY (AUGUST 8, 2006) – Lindy
Poling, a social studies teacher and department chair at Millbrook
High School in Raleigh has been named North Carolina History
Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History and Preserve America. Full
Story
2002
Teacher of the Year
- Lindy
G. Poling, US History Teacher at Millbrook High School in Raleigh,
NC has been selected as the 2002 Veterans of Foreign Wars
(VFW), National Citizenship Education Teacher of the Year.
This award is designed to recognize the nation's top elementary,
junior high and high school teachers who teach citizenship education
topics regularly and promote America's history and traditions.
Ms. Poling was sponsored by VFW Post 10225 Garner, NC.
Read More...
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Lessons
of Vietnam Class
Learn more about Ms. Poling and the Lessons
of Vietnam class. They are featured on a video segment
of the Wake County Public Schools cable show The School
Connection.
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The Lessons of
Vietnam Course at Millbrook High:
A Link's Perspective
Teach Your Children: Reflection on our 2005 Field Trip to the
Wall [doc]
[pdf]
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Lessons
of Vietnam Field Trip
For
three days each spring semester, Ms. Poling's Lessons
of Vietnam class takes a field trip to Washington, D.C.
Read more about this valuable experience in
" How
the Vietnam War Still Touches Us." |
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NC
Capitol Forum
On
March 23, 2001, a team of LOV students participated in the NC
Capitol Forum. Learn more about this exciting experience in
our presentation.
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