At a time when the constant stream of information around us feels overwhelming and fraught, students need tools to help them decode, analyze, and process. Many educators have written recently about the need to identify Fake News. This is certainly true but this call ignores the fact that students, and citizens, need the skills necessary […]Read Post ›
[Cross-posted on Edutopia] For many students, the experience of school is a series of lessons on the necessity of submerging their primary identity and culture in order to succeed academically. These students are repeatedly taught about “appropriate” behavior and that the path through school, and many parts of life, is easier if one conforms to […]Read Post ›
[Cross-posted on Edutopia] Learning changes dramatically when students have opportunities to produce work that matters to them. We know this from our own lives but don’t always do a good job of honoring it in schools. It’s easy for me to recall times when I dragged my feet completing a task, or rushed through a […]Read Post ›
Once again my students and I are deep in the process of investigating and creating. During class they are either with me or in different parts of our school or city, interviewing, researching, and drafting. I wrote before about my personal challenge of letting go in order to let this type of learning happen. In January […]Read Post ›
[Cross-posted on Edutopia.] Recently, national media published several articles that examine educational inequality in our country. The New York Times analyzed the correlation between money, race, and success in different school districts, while National Public Radio produced a series titled School Money: The Cost of Opportunity. This information about schools and the disparate daily realities […]Read Post ›
