Double Consciousness
Students created art representing their own double consciousnesses after we studied W.E.B. DuBois’s ideas.
Month: February 2013
Why We Need Public Schools
Diane Ravitch posted the question “Do we need public schools?” and a response from Carol Burris earlier this month. The public schools that I attended as a youth were a (mostly) homogenous representation of the suburbs where I grew up. As I am closing in on my twelfth year of teaching in public schools I […]Read Post ›
Being Artists
(Cross posted at Cooperative Catalyst) The other day, during a rare window of open time, I found myself transfixed by the interview that Krista Tippet did with Seth Godin. When Tippet introduced Godin’s thinking by saying, ”We are invited and stretched in whatever we do to be artists — to create in ways that matter to other people,” […]Read Post ›
Reexamining…
I feel most successful in the classroom when my students and I are creating. Many of our creations come in the form of ideas. These ideas are often related to people reexamining themselves and/or the world around them. One requirement of the Language Autobiographies that my students recently completed was that students develop larger ideas […]Read Post ›
Mr J Block 