Local teacher urges schools to teach 9/11 with care after 25th anniversary

Dr. Jessica Capadonna, a history teacher at the Marine Academy of Science and Technology, told the Monmouth County ceremony that teaching 9/11 requires care to make the event real for students. "Now, 25 years later, it isn't a memory, it's history," she said, adding that visits to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum help students grasp the individual stories behind the headlines.

Capadonna described taking students to the museum each year and said those visits "leave a lasting impact." She said classroom lessons alone risk making the events distant and urged educators to give students opportunities to encounter the artifacts and personal narratives that convey the day's human consequences.