Keywords: male teacher
Item 79575
S Road School class, South Bristol, ca. 1923
Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: circa 1923 Location: South Bristol Media: Photographic print
Item 76523
Madawaska Training School male students and faculty, Fort Kent, 1928
Contributed by: Blake Library Special Collections Date: 1928 Location: Fort Kent Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
"Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"
Concern about immigrants and their loyalty in the post World War I era led to programs to "Americanize" them -- an effort to help them learn English and otherwise adjust to life in the United States. Clara Soule ran one such program for the Portland Public Schools, hoping it would help the immigrants be accepted.
Site Page
New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village Schools
"… year 1909 and beginning in the mid 1930’s several male teachers are noted. According to two 1940 elementary school registers 25 students (seventeen…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Mattanawcook Academy
"In 1846, male teachers were paid $4.18 a week compared to female teachers at $1.52 a week. They had two classes in 1849, and they were “General…"
Story
Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves
West Point during World War II
Story
An Asian American Account
by Zabrina
An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
