Community-in-the-Classroom

2009 WCPSS Exemplary High School Social Studies Leadership Award Winner, Lindy Poling, is interviewed about her Community-in-the-Classroom Program and the LOV/RIR course at Millbrook HS.

An article by Ms. Lindy Poling, published in the Winter 2008-09 edition of Global TeachNet, a National Peace Corps Association publication. (See pp.6-7)

Ms. Lindy Poling speaking at the 5th Teach Vietnam Teachers Network National Conference at American University, July, 2008

Students who enter Lindy Poling's Lessons of Vietnam class at Millbrook High School learn many lessons. Poling's students explain the class visitors, correspondence with experts and questions about family they investigate.

2006 North Carolina History Teacher of the Year Lindy Poling shows how to make the most of community resources in teaching the Vietnam era.

2006 North Carolina History Teacher of the Year Lindy Poling's guide to to setting up a Community-in-the-Classroom program to enliven and improve a Social Studies curriculum.

November 1, 2000 - A retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral in dress uniform recently greeted Millbrook High students entering Lindy Poling's Lessons of Vietnam classroom. It was the fifth semester in a row that Emmett Tidd and his wife Muggs visited the class and a day for which Poling had been preparing her class for weeks.

A High School Field Trip to The Wall. The field trip experience is one of the most effective tools social studies teachers can use to make learning meaningful. What better way to help students comprehend the true costs of war than expose them to the 58,220 names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

Lindy Poling's Millbrook High Web page has more information on Community-in-the-Classroom concepts and execution, including quarterly issues of the "Bridges" newsletter.