MLK Day in Brooksville, Maine

Reversing Falls Sanctuary will host Robert Shetterly and AWTT at a MLK Day Celebration on Monday, January 19, 2026, at 2 p.m.

Contemplating 2025 and the “d” words

Looking back on 2025, AWTT Education Director Connie Carter calls on all of us to find the inspiration we need to meet the challenges of 2026.

When Woke Meets Affordable

I’ve written before about the fierce negativity of the MAGA community toward Wokeness, i.e., their contention that teaching or professing the true history of racism in the United States is a terrible thing to do because it heaps shame and guilt on white children for racial sins of the past, sins they are not responsible for and […]

Shetterly Lecture: Art in an Age of Democratic Upheaval

Robert Shetterly will deliver the Center for Global Humanities Lecture, at Innovation Hall on the University of New England Portland Campus, on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, at 6 p.m.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in Bangor, Maine

Singer/songwriter Reggie Harris will be the featured performer at the Martin Luther King Day celebration at 3 p.m. on Sunday, January 18, 2026, at the First Methodist Church in Bangor, Maine.

Speaking to the Anxieties of Children

Many adults—teachers, parents—are overwhelmed, angry, and fearful with what is happening in the world.  The wars, the environment, the political rancor, the outright cruelty being modeled by people in positions of power, the corruption and celebration of greed, the dishonesty. Anger and fear are appropriate responses. The checks and balances of our institutions have failed, […]

AWTT Portraits Visit Hampden Academy

Four AWTT portraits travel to Hampden Academy for School Partnership Program.

Because Democracy Depends on It

AWTT will attend the 105th NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Annual Conference, in Washington, D.C., December 5-7, 2025.

AWTT Brings Immersive Experience to NJEA Convention

AWTT staff are excited to be attending the New Jersey Education Association’s annual convention again this year – in Atlantic City, November 6-7, 2025.

Samantha Smith Challenge Launch

AWTT welcomed middle-school and high-school students and their faculty sponsors for the 2025-26 Samantha Smith Chellenge kick-off event at Orono High School on November 13, 2025. In 2025-26 the Samantha Smith Challenge is getting a redesign. Instead of ending the SSC year with a big celebration of student projects—as AWWT has done in past years—we’re flipping the script, starting […]