Complementary Resources for Chapter 2
WATCH
- Elijah: We’re All Individuals
- Maranda: Talking with Teachers
- Dr. Vincent Harding, Creating America at CDF Racial Healing Town Hall
- Dr. Pedro Noguera: Demanding Education that Matters
- Education’s New Era: TEDx Talk with Scott Nine
READ
- How to Balance the Art & Science of Teaching
- To Praise or Not to Praise
- Crash Course at Stanford’s d-school
- “Rethinking every assumption” by Kirsten Olson
- “Teachers at Work: Six Exemplars of Everyday Practice” by Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman (Students at the Center, Jobs for the Future, April 2011)
- Collective Visioning by Linda Stout
- Democratic Education In Practice: Inside the Mission Hill School by Matthew Knoester
- In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization by Deborah Meier
LISTEN
DO
- Explore Your Learner Sketch
- Who Are You? A Questionnaire for Students on the First Day of School
- Attend the meeting of your local school board or site council
- Take time to listen to young people, teachers, and wise elders in your community over the next two weeks. What do they want for the community? What learning links to their visions?
- Draw out your own ideal school as a reference point in your own learning journey.