We Are the Present: The Need for Youth Voices
In many of the educational and teacher training programs I have been a part of, I’ve been frustrated by the intense focus given to preparing students for their academic futures […]
Category Archives: Education
First Generation Solidarity: Linking Immigration and Class Mobility
My younger sister, a champion tennis player, was recently accepted to a college located in my father’s hometown–a development about which his whole family is ecstatic. My dad, a first […]
Returning to the Root: Reflection and Collective Learning
“We must ask ourselves, ‘What is it that we are trying to do, and are we doing it as effectively as we can?’ For the answers to these questions are […]
Lesson Plan – Introducing Radical Feminism and Making Feminist Critiques*
1. Freewrite: At the start of the lesson, the symbol for radical feminism (a fist inside the female sign) will be drawn up on the board. Ask students to take […]
Schooling the World: Native Power in Response to Neoliberal Reform
Lois Wiener, among many other progressive educators and scholars, has written extensively about the neoliberal reforms which are overwhelming current models for education in the US–particularly in oppressed communities. The […]
Honoring Student Knowledge: The Importance of a Questioning Curriculum
“Everything I teach my students are things they already know. I just teach them that they already know them.” – Frantz Jordan-Jerome I was co-leading a lesson with my mentor […]
Are Teachers Activists?
My father was a first generation college student. Raised in rural Massachusetts on public assistance, he comes from a large group of siblings, and one of the only Black families […]
Envisioning Justice: Remembering Our Own Power
“Caminante, no hay puentes. Se hace puentes al andar.” – Gloria Anzaldúa As was mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been looking into graduate programs lately, and have been having a […]
Keeping Kids in the Classroom: Or; What Is Radical Pedagogy?
Derik, one of the students in the sixth grade class with which I work, has been struggling since the beginning of the school year. He has a violent home life, […]
Who Is the ‘We’: An Education for Us
This past week at my school saw much of the pageantry and lead-up which precedes the Thanksgiving recesses in so many U.S. learning communities. The hallways were filled with handprint […]
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