Every year the good people at the Education for Liberation Network publish Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book for Social Justice Teachers. It is a wonderful, inspiring resource and well worth buying. This year they included a profile of me and my colleague Melanie Manuel: Here is the text: Please introduce yourselves. I’m Melanie Manuel and […]Read Post ›
My time in Aotearoa New Zealand is coming to an end. I am so grateful to have had this time to explore and learn about New Zealand and NZ schools. This is truly a special place and I was fortunate to connect with so many thoughtful educators. My final project is about Supporting Teachers to Change the […]Read Post ›
It has been a tremendous honor to visit many different schools in Aotearoa New Zealand to observe, learn, and also share my own work. In the secondary schools I visited, I spoke with teachers and administrators who have a strong interest in pedagogies and practices that can make school more meaningful for students. Many schools I worked […]Read Post ›
Aotearoa New Zealand is a bicultural country. The reality of what this means is complex in a place where the history of human habitation and the beginnings of cultural conflict were quite recent (source). On a physical level, many schools I’ve visited prominently display Māori art: Biculturalism means that there is a legal obligation to Māori people, despite […]Read Post ›
The other day I sat in the front of a classroom north of Wellington facing thirty teenagers. We had met thirty minutes earlier. I had heard from them about their school and their community before sharing information about my school and my students in Philly. “What else would you like to know?” I asked. “Ask […]Read Post ›
