Lkenned@hunter.cuny.edu
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Lynda Kennedy has spent the last several years working on Teaching American History grant-funded programs geared towards enlivening the history curriculum and promoting the professional development of history teachers in New York City. These programs partnered the NYC Dept. of Education Office of Social Studies, and cultural organizations such as the Gotham Center for NYC History, the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Historic House Trust of New York City. As a consultant on other projects she has worked to create programs, web and print-based resources and curricula for schools and museums, and has provided professional development for classroom teachers and museum staff.  She has also assisted with program evaluation and long-term planning. She holds an MS Ed from the Bank Street College of Education and is a PhD candidate in Urban Education at the Graduate Center of CUNY.

Teaching

Professor Kennedy teaches the childhood Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction: Integrating Literature, the Arts and Technology course, secondary Social Studies Methods, and Building  Foundation of Literacy in Adolescent Education.

Research

Emerging from a school-based Shakespeare teacher beginning, followed by years working in institutions of public history, such as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Brooklyn Historical Society, Professor Kennedy’s research interests span disciplines. Her current research focuses on highlighting the teaching and learning resources available in the urban setting, particularly the potential of partnerships between public schools and cultural institutions for the support of history and social studies teachers. Other interests include examinations of socio-economic class – how it is discussed, or not, in the history classroom and how it affects access to resources for today’s students. She has presented her work at AACTE, the NY State Staff Development Council, the Organization of American Historians, the National Art Education Association, the American Association of Museums, the New York City Museum Educators Roundtable, the Upstate History Alliance and others. Her most recent publication is the chapter The Challenge of Equitable Access to Arts and Museum Experiences for Low Income New York City Schoolchildren in Cutting Class: Social Class and Education, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.