To help answer this question, we recently spoke with Renée Watson, former associate director of professional development for DreamYard Project in the Bronx, who now works with organizations that are hoping to align their internal structures and practices with a [...]
By Laurie Levy, M.Ed. | Originally Published at Chicago Now. January 26, 2015 at 6:40 am My 8-year-old granddaughter loves to act the role of teacher. As someone who was also an older sister to two little brothers, I totally empathize. But when she wrote, [...]
Photograph; Stan Gutiontov, a student at Northwestern University’s Feinberg/Chicago Tribune By Times Editorial | Originally Published at Tampa Bay Times. Friday, June 21, 2013 5:30am The humanities and social sciences have been under attack by Gov. Rick Scott and other politicians who are insisting on a more [...]
What Might We Teach? A Look Into Our Souls Through Poetry And Self-Portraits. – A Lesson What if when we looked at our students we could really see them? Really know their pasts, understand where they are coming from? In this [...]
In the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have transformed our world. We celebrate the famously imaginative, the greatest artists and innovators from Van Gogh to Steve Jobs. Viewing the world creatively is supposed to be [...]
An inmate performs in a play at a public theatre in Lima, Peru. The theatre program is one of many prison activities popping up around the globe to help reduce overcrowding and rehabilitate prisoners. (Photo from Reuters/Enrique Castro-Mendivil) As tots we were given time to grow. Everyone [...]
It began with an innocent interview. The thought to bring education back to democracy or democracy back to education was expressed brilliantly by an Artist. Out of the mouth of a master an old idea was born again. Wynton Marsalis reminds us of the danger of cuts [...]
Orchard Gardens, a school in Roxbury, Mass., had been plagued by bad test scores and violence -- but one principal's idea to fire the security guards and hire art teachers is helping turn it around. NBC's Katy Tur reports. By Katy Tur | Originally Published at NBC [...]
