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Current Projects
Ward 1, Washington, D.C.
Language access
1/2012 - 6/2012
Many Languages One Voice (MLOV)
Critical Exposure is partnering with Many Languages One Voice (MLOV), a non-profit organization in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of D.C. that is focused on improving language access rights for English Language Learners. Our MLOV youth will be working on two projects this semester: the first is to conduct interviews and photograph the stories of English language learners. This project will be...
Columbia Heights
January-June 2012
8th Grade American History Class
Critical Exposure has partnered with an 8th Grade American History class at the Capital City Public Charter Upper School. In their history class, the students are studying the Civil Rights Movement, particularly the Brown vs. Board of Education case of 1954. CE is joining in this discussion by challenging the students to think about how the stories and experiences of those involved in...
Ward 7, Washington, D.C.
1/2012 - 6/2012
American history class
Critical Exposure is working with two 11th-grade American history classes at H.D. Woodson Senior High School in Ward 7 of Washington, D.C. As students learn about economic divisions and social justice struggles throughout American history, Critical Exposure will train the youth in photography so that they document their experiences as young people in the District today. As they gain an education...
Ward 4, Washington, D.C.
School modernization
10/2011 - ?
Roosevelt Senior High School, a comprehensive public high school in Ward 4 of D.C., was built nearly 80 years ago. While the building has seen small improvements over the years, the school building has many structural issues such as aging windows, leaky ceilings, broken sinks, and outdated technology. The staff and students have watched many other D.C. schools leap ahead in the modernization line...
Ward 1, Washington, D.C.
Library, Peer Jury
Ongoing
In January 2011 Critical Exposure initiated a program at the Washington Metropolitan High School, an alternative D.C. public high school located in Ward 1 of D.C. Students identified their school's lack of a library as a major obstacle to academic success. After a semester of documenting a disorganized storeroom and the consequences of illiteracy, the students presented their photographs and...
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Critical Exposure taught us to take pictures of our everyday lives so we can get in touch with people who do not understand what is going on in the DC public schools.
– Michaela, 12th grade, Spingarn STAY Senior High School, Washington, DC
