KCAC invites educators from all subject areas, grade levels, and school environments to study and to shape American communities.

This website introduces educators and community members to a model for interdisciplinary learning developed in a multi-year project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Over several years, teachers affiliated with the National Writing Project created this curricular program for teaching collaboratively about American communities.

The program promotes student research and writing to explore community life. Through community projects and collaborative research, KCAC supports students' and teachers' interactions with community members. These collaborations expand the study of local cultures to reflect the increasing diversity evident in American life.

The five images on our KCAC logo embody the humanities-oriented focus of our project’s content. We organized our work around five thematic strands to study American communities in specific historical moments. Our website supports other teachers’ applications of our classroom resources and thematic content in their own local communities.

To see the original documentation for this project, click here.

Contact us at kmwp@kennesaw.edu if you have additional questions or would like to arrange for KCAC workshops at your school or district.

Specific Goals of this web site:

• Invite teachers and students to create a classroom community through research and writing.
• Share lesson plans created and used by KCAC educators and their students.
• Share KCAC research gathered by educators and students.
• Encourage educators to include community-based inquiry and authentic research with primary sources in their curriculum.
• Investigate how the recovery, critique, and creation of community texts can reflect the dynamic values of local and larger communities.
• Model research methodology for other regions using our national themes