Windows to A Multicultural World
African-American and African Diaspora History & Culture Curriculum, Arts Engagements, and Field Trips for Grades K-12

Windows to A Multicultural World modules for K-12 
Selected content from our K-12 arts and culture curriculum is delivered on-site at the Clemmons Family Farm and offers a range of topics covering arts-integrated African-American and African diaspora history, art, culture and geography content. All of our curriculum focuses on building joy, resilience, self-esteem and wellness while helping students learn the rich history and cultures of African Americans and the peoples of the African diaspora.  If you can't make it out to the Clemmons Family Farm for a field trip, we'll bring our programs to you in your school!

​Our "Windows to A Multicultural World" African diaspora curriculum and field trips are tailored to student learning objectives.  Most field trips include a tour of one or more of the historic buildings on the Clemmons Farm with an educational treasure hunt in the Barn House. Field trips may also include arts and culture engagements that build on our African American history curriculum. 

​Most of the arts and culture engagements on the Clemmons Farm are facilitated by our collaborating artists, culture bearers and scholars who are African-American Vermonters/Vermonters of African descent. Our field trips engage students in experiences that foster the development of their positive  identities and empathy as citizens of a multicultural world. Our collaborating artists include dancers and choreographers, film makers and photographers, musicians and singers, poets, playwrights and actors,  storytellers and spoken word artists, costume designers, painters, weavers, culinary artists, makers and more!  Upon request, we will select one or more artists who will offer tailored arts engagement to enrich the field trip.
Each Windows To A Multicultural World curriculum module is developed to meet specific objectives and to address selected Core Curriculum Standards for the State of Vermont. Our modules also incorporate equity literacy and social justice standards, and ground our arts and culture engagements to the anchor standards of the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS). ​​ We work with teachers and schools to tailor our African-American/African diaspora arts and culture programs to your educational goals both in the classroom and through place-based learning on a rare African-American owned historic farm in Vermont. 

With our team of Vermont artists specializing in the arts and cultures of the African diaspora, we will support the efforts that your school and classrooms are already making to help their students acquire the skills, attitudes and exposure to multicultural settings that they need to reach their full potential as citizens of the world. 
Above: Musician, composer and storyteller Michael Dyke is one of the talented collaborating Teaching Artists who lead the planning, design and implementation of the Clemmons Family Farm's 'Windows to a Multicultural World' K-12 arts and culture programs.  
Helping All Children Become World​ ​Citizens

​H.3, the Ethnic and Social Equity in Schools bill, which officially became Act 1, is a new law in Vermont that ushers ethnic studies into our statewide educational standards along with policies that promote ethnic and social equity in public elementary and high schools.  Our "Windows to A Multicultural World" field trips and school classroom engagements are designed to help schools to get a head start on meeting these emerging standards. 
To learn more about our place-based multicultural learning field trips and school engagements, please email us at [email protected] or leave us a message at (765) 560-5445.