…at Mott Community College, Flint, Michigan. Arina is the author of Building Powerful Learning Environments: From Schools to Communities (2017) and dozens of educational publications. Follow her on Twitter @arinabokas….
…of students with behavioral inconsistencies, learning deficiencies, and students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet, these teachers keep on teaching and making magic in the classroom by raising test scores, building…
…school. For all the ways your students treated me as the star, I hope they never forget that the real superheroes in this have been in their building all along.”…
…the text in any response. The power of this activity, and in building a critically literate society, comes from the conversations. Our students are the future. They are learning each…
…enjoy the same kind of community-building experience by meeting with friends to choose, read, and discuss books together. Their meetings can come to life with discussions, arts and crafts, and…
…all the books I sent him; he shared map resources from National Geographic and took all the participants, including me, on some incredibly deep map-reading exercises. Building on the work…
…literally and figuratively, and this story inspires us to think critically about these internal and external worlds. The discourse that permeated our classroom catalyzed close reading and community building, explicitly…
…courses began as a way “to try to close the wide achievement gap between the district’s Hispanic and white students.” They worked on building the students’ self-esteem and note that…
…projects around the key themes of awareness building, food security, literacy and education, service and volunteerism, and shelter and infrastructure. Finally, invite students, as a class or in small groups,…
…terms. He argues that we should not conceal the ethical and moral foundations of our pedagogical endeavors, especially insofar as articulating these foundations can help to build the kind of…
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