A Dallas ISD school is giving its students an immersive look at a new culture.
Dallas ISD's Mockingbird Elementary School is taking students on a trip far away this week without leaving school grounds.
"This week the kids get to learn about a different country," Principal Margaret Huff said."They decided to choose Ghana." The hallways are decorated to show the landscape of Ghana and the trades the West African country is known for, like gold and cocoa.Get DFW local news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox.Students are tasting traditional foods like"red red," a tomato-based black-eyed pea dish. They're also shopping in a market to buy Ghana-inspired crafts they made with replica Cedi, the Ghanaian currency.
"I was born in Ghana. I came when I was three," Huff said."I think experiences are really important in how we narrate our experience and how we shine a positive light of Africa." Huff hopes the immersive Ghana experience her students are getting now will stick with them in the future.
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