ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. In the summer of 2020, I worked with youth organizers in Detroit to conduct listening sessions with youth across the city and state; we wanted to support local organizations in developing their own education justice campaigns.

Humanities 122

Humanities Leadership Advocacy Lesson Plan 122

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. The district plans to expand the pilot until it’s an option for all students in what are now called the eighth through twelfth grades.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

In October 2020, while networking with Chris Bacon (former UGRR Director) and Mike Broccolo (former educational specialist), we developed a mini-service learning project. Essentially, teacher candidates learned that service-learning with a cultural center can balance inquiry with advocacy as a means to learn civic engagement.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The shift came to the school ahead of a statewide deadline to have proficiency-based graduation requirements in place for all of Vermont’s 2020 high school graduates. Most schools are on track to have new graduation requirement systems in place by 2020, but on-the-ground changes look different from district to district.

High School 100

High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A 2020 report from the University of California, Los Angeles, found that Black and Latino students who experience homelessness in the state are more than one and a half times as likely to be suspended from school as their non-homeless peers. Lesson plans for teachers help high school students understand if they qualify.

Advocacy 87

Advocacy Government Public School High School 87

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

That changed in the summer of 2020. The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. In 2020, after committee membership reached an all-time high, a white Fairfax mother spoke up at one of the Zoom meetings. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

High School 145

High School Elementary School Public School Social Justice 145

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Let their dreams and longings be the starting point for lesson plans, not something that’s cordoned off or relegated to 20-minute enrichment. 2020 = 125,000; 2040 = 185,000+. 2020 = 75,000; 2040 = 110,000+. 2020 = 11,000; 2040 = 13,000. Bring out the beauty that’s in their souls. Microplurality.

Education 91

Education K-12 Anthropology Advocacy 91