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Power to the Students: Teaching Issue-Based Organizing
Why teach students to organize? I hear a lot about teachers “empowering” students. I always ask these teachers, “Cool, so what is your definition of power?”
2019 »
Making Progress on Progressive Education: First Empower Teachers
At the heart of progressive pedagogy are questions about student motivation: How can teachers best motivate students? How can schools best motivate teachers?
2019 »
Improvisation and the Transformative Potential of Play
Improvisational theater and its underlying progressive principles have the potential to transform school culture and reorient students and educators towards a more human and democratic approach to education.
2019