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A Diploma Worth Having

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2011

There's only one valid measure of the high school curriculum: How well does it prepare students for their adult lives?

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Troy taught American History, Civics, and the Humanities for one year at a middle school Montessori program in Michigan and also has several years' experience as a climate justice organizer with the Sunrise Movement. He is now a substitute teacher in metro Detroit and author of On the Side, a Substack about liberatory pedagogy.
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During his career, Paul has taught everything from kindergarten to college. Along the way, he used design thinking to transform his classroom into a more inquisitive and creative space.

Designing Possibility in Schools

September 22, 2022

The default culture within most schools today is more transactional than transformational and dehumanizing in that students and teachers do not have the space where they can be successful without sacrificing some part of their identities.

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I think there's a common misconception that school is the only thing that matters. And the school system makes a lot of people feel like if they're not doing the best academically or kind of meeting the limit, then maybe they're not going to do as well later in life or maybe there's something wrong with them. I feel like that's a whole, really incorrect kind of idea that's perpetuated by the school system.

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