06-02-2025
Local teacher connects students to past during Black History Month
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Inside School Without Walls in the Rochester City School District there's a social studies teacher who tells her students all the time they, along with everyone else, have a message that fits seamlessly into Leda Williams' lessons during Black History Month.'I really try to make sure that students are aware of stories and events where they can see themselves, see their work, see that they have value, and understand that life is full of struggles, it's not easy, but you have the resilience to overcome and push through,' Williams she teaches her students about Martin Luther King Junior and his dream as well as painful stories like the Birmingham bombings, but she also talks about lesser-known events and figures, like writer and activist James Baldwin.'So that kids have an opportunity to see that there are many different kinds of people,' Willaims said. 'We seem to highlight the main players, but they're all people taking a role, being active, addressing the changes that our nation needs.'Her students say they walk out feeling connected to history.'The things that people have done back in the past, it always helps me and always helps everyone in the community to help grow because the hard work they did in the past, it'll help us be stronger in the future,' said Xavion it to a social studies teacher to connect students to history – so they can value their role in it.
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