Carlsbad High School students are taking their broadcasting skills on an adventure. Led by retired teacher Doug Green, students are traveling to diverse communities to learn and collaborate. One student's experience in Kotlik, Alaska, showcases the impact of cultural exchange and hands-on learning.
Carlsbad High School senior Maddie Mulligan instructs students in Kotlik, Alaska about broadcast journalism, Sept. 2024.Last September, Carlsbad High School junior Tava Valenti traveled to the small Alaska n town of Kotlik, located on the Yukon River. While there, she had the opportunity to go out on a boat in search of seals.'I was really surprised that this was even an option because I've never heard of any school doing this before, sending kids to this rural town in Alaska ,' Valenti said.
'I was thinking that I was going to expand my understanding of Alaska and the terrain. But what it did was expand my understanding of the people. I made it a point where I really wanted to go on this boat, because in Kotlik, they do most of their hunting from boats. I saw these families who were really concentrated and really focused because they had to hunt something that day. They had to catch something because that's how they provide for their families.'Doug Green at his retirement party from teaching broadcast journalism at Carlsbad High School, June 26, 2023. 'I didn't really retire, but rather 'redirected' by finding opportunities for students from Carlsbad's broadcasting classes to leave the 'Carlsbad bubble' and travel to other parts of the world to work with culturally diverse and often disadvantaged young people,' Green explained.Encouraging students to leave their comfort zones has been Green's mission since before his tenure in broadcast journalism. While teaching language arts, he sought to bring'The Diary of Anne Frank' and the Holocaust to life for his eighth graders.'I had the opportunity in 2009 to take 16 students, who volunteered, to Munich. We began producing what we thought was gonna be a very short film during spring break on the Holocaust,' Green said.'It quickly gained some steam on YouTube. We were funded by the Leichtag Family Foundation to go back and and actually make a fil
STUDENT TRAVEL BROADCAST JOURNALISM CULTURAL EXCHANGE ALASKA EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
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