Students research the economic, environmental, and cultural impacts of locating a new tourism facility in Puerto Rico.
This project is a partnership between NAF and the New York Department of Education.
Students assume the role of a developer’s team that answers an open call posted by the Puerto Rico Tourism Board. The open call is a request for developers to determine the location of a new tourism facility. In the open call, the tourism board states that they are most concerned with ensuring that the project is profitable for the island and acts as a “good neighbor,” in an economic, environmental, and cultural sense, to the residents.
This curriculum has been grounded in New York’s Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) Education Framework. CR-S aims to help “educators create student-centered learning environments that: affirm racial, linguistic and cultural identities; prepare students for rigor and independent learning; develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; and empower students as agents of social change.”
