The Historian's Creed
With hands-on support from Principal Grismaldy Laboy-Wilson, every Friday in the 10th grade Global History classes is "Character Education Day", during which the teacher collaborates on with the Leadership Program trainer to engage the students in the Historian's Creed Program. Historian's Creed is a weekly interactive and character-based exercise that provides students an opportunity to put their knowledge of history to the test by reliving past events through the eyes of the world's leaders. Students are briefed on a major world event from the period in history studied earlier in the week, assigned to a particular country, and asked to craft their nation's responses to the crisis. In this way, our students have simulated and reacted to some of the most formative moments of the twentieth century, like the 1929 stock market crash and the Depression, Hitler's 1936 Olympics in Berlin, or the Soviet Union's 1949 nuclear testing and dawn of the Cold War arms race. To complete their assignment, students must integrate their historical knowledge with moral decision-making.