James Foley Global Citizenship Curriculum

The James Foley Global Citizenship Curriculum prioritizes rigorous historical understanding of global context, drawing personal connections to global patterns, developing a capacity to see the world through someone else’s eyes and engaging students in a reflective practice that considers the source of their own moral courage.

Ordinary Until Tested: Transformative Stories that Foster Civic Engagement

The James Foley Legacy Curriculum explores the civic stories of executed conflict journalist, James Foley, and his mother, Diane Foley, as a models for multi-disciplinary, collaborative, place-based learning that empowers students as community leaders and global citizens.

James Foley Freedom Awards 2023

About me

My name is Jennifer Murray do Carmo and I am a high school social studies teacher at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, NH. James Foley graduated from Kingswood in 1992 and I knew him as a young child. We both swam on the Wolfeboro Swim Team and I babysat for the Foley's one summer. Jim's captivity and death rippled through my school community. His former teachers work in my district, my colleagues, and my student's parents, were his classmates. I did not know James Foley much when I began this project. I suppose, like many Americans, what I knew most about him was the tragedy of his death. But, through the process of developing this class, and the power of the incredible documentary JIM: The James Foley Story, directed by Kingswood Alumni, Brian Oakes ('92), I have learned so much about Jim and from Jim. Jim is still teaching. He teaches through the model of the life he lived, how he is remembered by those who loved him most and those of us who are inspired by his selflessness, empathy and moral courage. His legacy is embodied with incredible strength and grace by his mother, Diane Foley. Her story, the continuation of his, is just as transformational. Diane's story challenges us to ask the most profound questions about forgiveness, love, faith, redemption and the country we want to be in the world. This curriculum is a work in progress, and every bit the product of the 107 incredible young people who have taken this class and built it with me along the way.

STUDENT CO-CREATORS: Grace Abraham - Reagan Blanchet - Kiah Borelli - Jillian Caravella - Luke Cassidy - Annalise Cataldo -Gianna Cubeddu - Erica Delemus - Connor DeMasi - Chloe Dore - Matthew Gouthier - Genevieve Hanson - Nicholas Lamie - Ryan Lucia - Matthew Place - Autumn Rodil - Joshua Shapiro - Alexander Tessier - Brian Winn -Janis Walker - Olivia Hart - Alison Bean - Patrick Murphy - Janis Walker - Anna Gantt - Ella Weiss - Giorgos Morphopoulos - William MacNamara - Jillian Stetson - Abigail Stetson - Tyler Wright - Brayden Rapoza - Alexis Bartlett - Corbin Cheney - Rian McNevich - Timothy Lucia - Justin Stirt - Gabe Arinello - Alexa Smith - Kyle Valley - Dan Keniston - Oleg Shehan - Emma Ramos - Maddison Brown - Ella Meserve - Rachael Paraskos - Peter Kratovil - Connor Davis - Garrison Hendrickson - Alex Wright - Tristan Taatjes - Jonathan Hossack - Shaw Swinerton - Michael Schwarz - Tyler Olkkola - Aidan Thomson - Mariah Aikens - Marcella DeNitto - Christos Zavas - Juliah Mahler - Hannah Swenson - Amber Doliver - Emma Damon - James Yarling - Aislyn Brown - Carrigain williams - Carley Johnson - Spencer Kelly - Izzy Bronwell - Isabella Garry - Haven Varney - Dominic Alberto - Noah Swenson - Brady Clarke - Dan Cumberland - Noah Silva - Emerson DeNitto - Curtis Cloos - Jacob Brown - Riley Levesque - Addison Lawler - Danika Chominski - Katherine Viands - Isabelle Duran - Marisole Duran - Kaitlyn Beaulieu - Talia Pawnell - Andrea Daggett - Sophia Baca - Norah Brown - Garrett Burke - Isabella Bush - Kempes Corbally - Kelsie Davis - Annissa Desrochers - Savanah Hughes - Bryan Johnson -Benjamin Libby - Stella Lunt- Bryce Merrin - Hailey Peaslee - Nevaeh Quinn - Edward Ring - Tyrese Ryder - Morgan Sprince - Faith VanAuken - Jonah Verryt - Ava Waldron - Brady Walston - Audrey Wood - Julia Young

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