Posted today on the LM-NET website:

Spike Lee and HBO’s epic documentary, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” is the centerpiece of a new curriculum package that will be available this fall for high school, college and community educators. The documentary, for which Lee and Sam Pollard recently won the 2006 George Polk Award for Documentary Television, will be accompanied by a multi-disciplinary curriculum guide, “Teaching The Levees: A Curriculum for Democratic Dialogue and Civic Engagement to Accompany the HBO Documentary Film Event,” published and distributed by Teachers College Press.

Available free to educators, thanks to a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the curriculum package, which includes a complete version of the documentary in a two-disk DVD set and a complementary curriculum guide, can be requested at while supplies last.

The content of the curriculum can be used in ways that are consistent with national high school social studies standards and can be easily integrated into existing curricula. In addition, resources to support the use of the curriculum – including media content, supplementary educational materials, venues for community sharing and online professional development materials – are available to educators, students and community leaders from the “Teaching The Levees” Web site . The “Teaching The Levees” package will be available for use during the 2007-2008 school year.