Generation rising
PBS explores Gordon’s Civil Rights Trip
above: this episode of Generation Rising aired Friday, July 12th
“This trip gives me context for how I experience life today. It gives me reasons for why I see those news stories or why someone said what they might have said to me.”
Amaya Felder ’24
“I just feel like I have so much more power to use in this world and there’s so much more I can do to make change because of this experience.”
Mac Berube ’24
“This is a dream job: to be able to show students in real time the ways that our history is so connected, getting to weave together all of these different stories and perspectives and different forms of media and engagement to give them the opportunity to think for themselves.”
Viva Sandoval, Gordon humanities teacher
This spring, Amaya Felder and Mac Berube of Gordon’s Class of 2024 and their humanities teacher Viva Sandoval joined PBS’s Anaridis Rodriguez for a half hour conversation about Gordon’s Civil Rights Trip.
Gordon’s eighth grade has taken this trip every year since 2002, and the lessons of the trip have been woven into the curriculum beginning in Gordon’s youngest grades.
It’s a history lesson, but it’s also a key part of Gordon’s mission of producing graduates who understand how to make positive change in the world.
Special thanks to the team at Rhode Island PBS for giving these young people a chance to share their ideas with the world.
More on the trip at www.gordonschool.org/civilrights
More on Generation Rising at www.pbs.org/show/generation-rising