This hour, we’re celebrating some of the most memorable moments with Katie Pellico as she begins another chapter of her career. She'll soon start a new position managing development and communication at Common Ground High School, Urban Farm and Environmental Education Center in New Haven, but we won't soon forget coverage she helped to lead on...

Connecticut's slate of new social studies initiatives and standards:

• 'Think like a historian': State approves new social studies standards November 13, 2023

• 'Teaching with truth and complexity': Checking in on the state's Black and Latino Studies elective August 17, 2023

• Meet the teaching cohort modeling culturally-responsive AAPI education in Connecticut May 19, 2023

• Connecticut tribes co-create state social studies curriculum, centering 'our culture and our ways' January 26, 2023

How scholars are rethinking how history is taught:

• Rewriting the Thanksgiving story, while centering Indigenous voices November 30, 2023

• Examining the history and legacy of 'sundown towns' in Connecticut November 27, 2023

• Uncovering the history of eugenics at Yale University, and its 'afterlives' October 2, 2023

How museums in the state are doing the same:

• Taking a tour of the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut May 6, 2024

• Artist Pablo Delano's 'Museum of the Old Colony' lands at Venice Biennale April 29, 2024

• Exploring the 'new' Yale Peabody Museum April 1, 2024

• Mohamad Hafez installs 'Eternal Cities' at the new Yale Peabody Museum December 4, 2023

• Healing and humanizing through artifact: Visiting the Museum of Jewish Civilization November 16, 2023

• Healing and humanizing through art: Visiting Palestine Museum US in Woodbridge November 9, 2023

Grassroots legislative efforts, including those led by disability groups:

• A look at efforts to improve accessible parking regulation in Connecticut May 9, 2024

• Connecticut disability advocates push for legislation to improve medical access February 15, 2024

• Wheelchair repairs can take months: What local advocates are doing to change that July 17, 2023

• Amazon responds to proposed bill aimed at warehouse 'quotas' May 15, 2023

• Connecticut may continue 'incremental' expansion of HUSKY Health coverage May 4, 2023

• Lawmakers call for nurse protections amid 'patient care crisis' January 24, 2023

Environmental coverage:

• How new federal limits on 'forever chemicals' will affect Connecticut April 22, 2024

• An update on efforts to address flooding in Hartford's North End, plus a look at how farms are faring January 22, 2024

• Connecticut coral could play a key role in climate resilience July 31, 2023

• Seeding the next generation of farmers in Connecticut July 13, 2023

• A look at environmental justice efforts in Connecticut: 'It's everybody's problem' February 28, 2023

And...

• Efforts to clean litter are lifesaving for wildlife July 8, 2024

• 'We need a moonshot for long COVID': What we know (and don't know) about the illness April 18, 2024

• There's no singularity when it comes to honoring Lunar New Year, including in Connecticut April 11, 2024

• Bigfoot gets all the glory, but Connecticut has its own cast of cryptids March 29, 2024

• Author Rebecca F. Kuang on 'Babel,' revolution and students as visionaries March 26, 2024

• 'Kinks in the movement': Staging a curly hair revolution in New Haven March 25, 2024

• Book ban requests still 'soaring' in Connecticut. Plus, vigil held at Capitol for Nex Benedict March 4, 2024

• The 'wild rumpus' continues: Maurice Sendak's legacy lives on at Ridgefield Foundation February 12, 2024

• Connecticut is the land of steady habits, but no steady identity January 25, 2024

• 'Before there was Salem, there was Connecticut': State formally pardons accused witches October 19, 2023

• Cups, discs, wands and swords: Tarot and 'divination' in Connecticut August 11, 2023

• Efforts to protect transgender care in Connecticut June 29, 2023

• The delicate art of obituary-writing May 22, 2023

• Students lead push to observe Muslim holidays in school calendars April 20, 2023

• 'A Scientist's Warning': Dr. Peter Hotez on the dangers of 'anti-science' April 10, 2023

• In 'Reciprocity Project,' Indigenous voices reframe our relationship to the Earth February 10, 2023

• 'RuPaul’s Drag Race' spotlights Connecticut’s 'thriving' drag scene January 27, 2023

• A parent and child's perspectives on the need for trans and nonbinary allyship December 29, 2022

• Honoring Native American veterans November 10, 2022

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